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New Study Identifies Promising Inhibitor Combination for Hard-to-Treat Leukemia Subtypes
Faculty In This Story Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences M. Andrés Blanco, PhD, from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) and investigators from the Universities of…

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…

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…

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.

Uncovering a way for pro-B cells to change trajectory (link is external)
Researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine have found that YY1 knockout pro-B cells can generate T lineage cells helping B cells produce antibodies.

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.

An integral T cell pathway helps regulate female gene expression (link is external)
Penn Vet researchers have revealed a connection between NF-κB signaling pathways and X chromosome inactivation, which has implications for understanding sex-based immune responses during infection.

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…
The Truth About ‘Man Flu’ (link is external)
Dr. Montserrat Anguera comments on immune response differences between women and men.

A modified peptide shows promise for fighting tumors (link is external)
Researchers in Penn Vet led a collaborative study that demonstrates how a modified peptide normalizes tumor vasculature and enhances various cancer treatments.