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.
Leveraging experience
Universally Recognized
Faculty Labs
Nationally in per-faculty funding from NIH
Research Centers and Programs
Featured Center
Penn Vet Working Dog Center
Penn Vet’s Working Dog Center aims to advance research and the application of the newest scientific findings and veterinary expertise to optimize the performance of scent detection dogs.
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
Penn Vet’s cornerstone research events and newsletter showcase the innovative science, collaborations, and discoveries emerging from our faculty.
Research News
Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Seek to Unravel the Mystery of the Disappearing Barn Owl
Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Program and the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) have been engaged in a collaborative effort to identify the causes of these owls’ decline and any actions that…
Penn Vet’s Annual Research Retreat Calls for the Power of Synergy in Challenging Times
Noting the challenges ahead, but celebrating the many breakthroughs at hand, the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) community gathered for their 31st annual Research Retreat held…
Dogs with cancer are helping save lives—both canine and human (link is external)
The Comparative Immunotherapy Program led by Penn Vet’s Nicola Mason is redefining how therapies are developed and tested—uniting human and veterinary medicine to move promising immunotherapies forward.
Behind the Breakthroughs: J. Oriol Sunyer
J. Oriol Sunyer explores how studying the evolution of the immune system reveals surprising connections between fish and human immunity, and what these discoveries could mean for the development of…