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Penn Vet’s Next Gen Biomedical Scientists Present Their Research at the Annual Veterinary Scholars Symposium
Two dozen budding Penn Vet scientists presented a rich array of ambitious biomedical research projects at the annual Veterinary Scholars Symposium held last month in Spokane, Washington.

Breakthrough Discovery Reveals How Connection Between Mitochondrial Vulnerability and Neurovasculature Function Impacts Neuropsychiatric Disease
Research from University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia suggests that repurposing a cholesterol drug may benefit 22qDS patients with neuropsychiatric disease

A new study from Penn Vet on germ cell gene regulatory networks paves way to determine cause of cryopreservation fertility failures
A study published in Stem Cell Reports, led by Eoin Whelan, PhD, and Ralph Brinster, VMD, PhD, and a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary…

New Study Identifies Promising Inhibitor Combination for Hard-to-Treat Leukemia Subtypes
Faculty In This Story Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences M. Andrés Blanco, PhD, from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) and investigators from the Universities of…

SAVMA Student Teaching Awards 2025
On Friday, April 11, the Penn Vet community gathered to honor students, faculty, and hospital staff during the annual SAVMA Student Teaching Awards. Recipients are selected by the student body…

Penn Vet Launches New Course One Health and Climate Change
Faculty In This Story The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Vet) has launched a new course, One Health and Climate Change, directed by Penn Vet’s…

Identifying a proliferating repairman for tissue in damaged lungs (link is external)
Penn Vet and Penn Medicine researchers found that endothelial cells lining the veins in lungs contribute to repair of blood vessels after lung injury.

Uncovering a way for pro-B cells to change trajectory (link is external)
Researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine have found that YY1 knockout pro-B cells can generate T lineage cells helping B cells produce antibodies.

University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Biomedical Sciences Researcher Named 2024 Packard Fellow
Andrew Modzelewski, PhD, Receives $875,000 in Support from David and Lucile Packard Foundation for Work on Genome Regulation.

An integral T cell pathway helps regulate female gene expression (link is external)
Penn Vet researchers have revealed a connection between NF-κB signaling pathways and X chromosome inactivation, which has implications for understanding sex-based immune responses during infection.