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 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
Ryan Hospital and New Bolton Center’s Infection Prevention and Biosecurity Programs Strive to Safeguard Health for Animals and People
Drug-resistant bacteria are one of the most urgent health challenges of our time, affecting people, animals, and the environments they share. The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn…
Behind the Breakthroughs: Andrew Vaughan
In this edition, we sit down with Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Andrew “Andy” Vaughan, PhD. Vaughan is a molecular and cellular biologist with a specific interest in lung regeneration.
Penn Vet’s Nicola Mason, BVetMed, PhD, DACVIM, FRCVS, Receives Penn Center for Innovation’s Inventor of the Year Award
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) congratulates Dr. Nicky Mason, the Paul A. James and Charles A. Gilmore Endowed Chair Professor and Professor of Medicine…
Identifying genes that keep cancer from spreading (link is external)
Using a novel approach, Penn Vet’s Chris Lengner and M. Andrés Blanco and colleagues have identified two genes that suppress colorectal cancer metastasis.