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A target for improving recovery from lung injury (link is external)
After a bout of severe respiratory disease, some patients never fully recover. New research from Penn Vet identifies a factor responsible for inappropriate tissue regrowth after infection, pointing to a…

People and places at Penn: Research (link is external)
From Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall to the Schuylkill River, four researchers share their science and their spaces, including Penn Vet’s Roderick Gagne, assistant professor of wildlife disease ecology.

Penn Vet’s Dr. Nicola “Nicky” Mason Appears on 60 Minutes
The interview highlighted Dr. Mason’s role in leading clinical trials that evaluated a novel Listeria-based vaccine to treat pet dogs with osteosarcoma, a common canine bone cancer.

Recreating the adrenal gland in a petri dish (link is external)
A Penn Vet–led team coaxed stem cells to take on the characteristics and functions of a human adrenal gland, progress that could lead to new therapies for adrenal insufficiencies and…

A FLASH of radiation may lead to new cancer care for people and pets alike (link is external)
Led by the Perelman School of Medicine’s Keith Cengel and the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Brian Flesner, a new study is evaluating the safety and efficacy of treating oral cancer…

Dr. William Beltran Named Corinne R. and Henry Bower Professor of Ophthalmology 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 William Beltran, DVM, MSc, PhD,…

NIH-funded canine immunotherapy data center charts a path toward transformative therapies (link is external)
With support recently for five more years, Nicola Mason of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Qi Long of the Perelman School of Medicine hope their work leads to new…

University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Launches New Center for Stewardship Agriculture and Food Security
Drawing on multi-disciplinary expertise, the Center seeks to improve animal agriculture while mitigating climate and ecological impacts.

Making ‘true’ equine IVF a reproducible success (link is external)
A new method developed by Katrin Hinrichs and colleagues in the School of Veterinary Medicine resulted in the birth of three healthy foals. The technique opens the door to new…

T cells that ‘nibble’ tumors unwittingly help cancer evade the immune response (link is external)
Penn Vet have uncovered a detailed mechanism by which tumors can skirt both the immune system and cancer therapies that leverage its power.
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