Research
Penn Vet scientists bring a valuable veterinary component to the table of scientific exploration, creating novel applications to improve animal health outcomes while also providing invaluable translational knowledge needed to advance human health.
Accelerating Research
Penn Vet’s research centers and programs (RCPs), and faculty laboratories, serve as a hub of discovery where scholars, students, and members of Penn’s biomedical community accelerate veterinary medicine’s impact on animal, human, and environmental health worldwide. Penn Vet’s RCPs generate courses, academic programs, community outreach, peer-reviewed research, and partnerships among academics, government, and industry.
In addition to its strengths in biomedicine, Penn Vet has a distinctive niche in infectious disease research, particularly in the areas of immunology and host-pathogen interactions, with robust research portfolios in neglected tropical diseases and diseases of poverty such as hookworm, the acute parasitic disease Schistosomiasis, malaria, Ebola, and other hemorrhagic viral illnesses.
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Faculty Labs
Nationally in per-faculty funding from NIH
Research Centers and Programs
Featured Center
Penn Vet Cancer Center
The Penn Vet Cancer Center is where cutting-edge research meets compassionate care. It’s where human and veterinary medicine converge.
Research and Core Laboratories
Penn Vet faculty are engaged in ongoing, groundbreaking research. Additionally, our research facilities include state-of-the-art core laboratories. Learn more about both the Philadelphia and Kennett Square campuses research.
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Research Events and Newsletter
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Research News
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…
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.
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…
Keeping food safe and animals healthy (link is external)
A strain of the H5N1 virus—best known for causing avian influenza—was detected in U.S. dairy cattle for the first time in March 2024. It has since spread to more than…