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 Institute
Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases
The emergence of antibiotic resistance to infections — particularly in hospital settings — creates a public health blind spot, while emerging and re-emerging infectious zoonotic agents continue to grow at alarming speed.
Research Laboratories
Penn Vet faculty are engaged in ongoing groundbreaking research. Learn more about faculty laboratories and the projects being investigated, both at our Philadelphia campus and at New Bolton Center.
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Research Events and Newsletter
Attend one of our many events that focus on the tremendous work of our faculty and read our research newsletter.
Research News
Improving T-cell responses to vaccines (link is external)
Penn Vet and Penn Medicine researchers have modified mRNA vaccines to include the cytokine IL-12 and improve T-cell responses which could improve the body’s ability to fight infections.
Penn Vet Equine Orthopedic Surgeon Awarded Grant For Research to Restore Joint Health in Horses
Faculty In This Story Funding from Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation seeks to establish a new class of injectable compounds to improve equine joint strength and slow worsening osteoarthritis The Jacques…
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…