Penn Vet News

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    Welcome, VMD Class of 2029!

    Penn Vet’s newest cadre of veterinarians-to-be began classes this week.

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    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

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    Penn Vet Teamwork Comes Through for a Dog with a Strong Will but a Sick Heart

    Something about Litte Dove just wasn’t quite right. Even in her favorite Philly park with her favorite people, the usually plucky shepherd mix sat down abruptly in mid-walk.

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    Researchers Advance mRNA Delivery to the Retina Using Stabilized Lipid Carriers

    Efficient delivery of synthetic mRNA to the retina remains one of the key hurdles in developing mRNA-based treatments for vision loss.

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    A New Penn Vet Study Aims to Shed Light on Honeybees’ Foraging Habits, with an Eye Toward Aiding their Survival

    A new study recently underway at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s (Penn Vet) New Bolton Center, led by Associate Professor of Epidemiology Laurel Redding, aims to shed…

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    Penn Vet Researchers Evaluate a New Device That Could Streamline Vision-Saving Therapies

    Retinal blindness caused by the death of photoreceptors, the light-sensing cells within the retina, affects millions of people worldwide. Novel gene and cell therapies to prevent or rescue vision loss…

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    Penn Vet professor Thomas Parsons and Philadelphia-based tech firm AgriGates receive inaugural state innovation grants

    A professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) who has pioneered a more efficient, humane way to feed mother pigs and a Philadelphia firm that…

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    Penn Vet Announces the Appointment of Two New Members to its Board of Advisors

    The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Vet) welcomes Michael “Mike” B. Fox, W’73, and Mark Korman as its newest members of the Board of Advisors.  

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    Hope for cell-based retinal repair: Penn Vet study finds key to improving survival of transplanted cells

    Researchers identify metabolic stress as an obstacle to photoreceptor transplantation highlighting a critical window for therapeutic intervention.

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    A New Study from Penn Vet Reveals an Unsung Immune Defender as a Key Guardian of Gut Health and Metabolism

    A pioneering new study published in Nature Microbiology, led by Oriol Sunyer, PhD, and a team of researchers at Penn Vet and the University of New Mexico, have uncovered a…

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