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    Faculty

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    SAVMA Student Teaching Awards 2025 

    On Friday, April 11, the Penn Vet community gathered to honor students, faculty, and hospital staff during the annual SAVMA Student Teaching Awards. Recipients are selected by the student body…

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    Penn Vet Launches New Course One Health and Climate Change

    Faculty In This Story The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Vet) has launched a new course, One Health and Climate Change, directed by Penn Vet’s…

    Human Lungs

    Identifying a proliferating repairman for tissue in damaged lungs (link is external)

    Penn Vet and Penn Medicine researchers found that endothelial cells lining the veins in lungs contribute to repair of blood vessels after lung injury.

    University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Biomedical Sciences Researcher Named 2024 Packard Fellow

    Andrew Modzelewski, PhD, Receives $875,000 in Support from David and Lucile Packard Foundation for Work on Genome Regulation.

    Jeremy Wang

    Penn Vet and Penn Medicine Researchers Receive Nearly $6 Million in Renewed NIH Funding to Study Epigenetics of Reproduction in Animals and Humans

    A multidisciplinary group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) and the University’s Perelman School of Medicine (Perelman) have received $5.95 million in renewed…

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    Kotaro Sasaki, MD, PhD, Named Richard King Mellon Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine

    Andrew M. Hoffman, DVM, DVSc, DACVIM, Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Vet) has named Kotaro Sasaki, MD, PhD, the…

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    Penn Vet Names Christopher J. Lengner, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences

    June 26, 2023; Philadelphia, PA – Andrew M. Hoffman, DVM, DVSc, DACVIM, Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Vet) has…

    Two Early-Career Investigators from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine Recognized for Advancing Biomedical Research

    June 20, 2023; PHILADELPHIA, PA – Two early-career scientists from the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) have been honored with…

    P. Jeremy Wang, MD, PhD, Named Ralph L. Brinster President’s Distinguished Professor at Penn Vet

    The awarding of a named, endowed professorship is the highest honor bestowed upon a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and reflects a commitment to scientific discovery, mentorship, and…

    Penn Vet’s Carlo Siracusa Receives Morris Animal Foundation Mark L. Morris Jr. Investigator Award (link is external)

    DENVER/March 16, 2021 — Morris Animal Foundation has awarded its second Mark L. Morris Jr. Investigator Award to Dr. Carlo Siracusa, Associate Professor of Clinical Behavior Medicine at the University…