🎉 Congratulations to Don Siegel, MD, PhD, on receiving the Emily Cooley Award & Memorial Lectureship at the recent AABB Annual Meeting! Members of the Penn PLM team past and present joined him to celebrate & Vijay Bhoj, MD, PhD, presented the award.
🔬: aabb.org/membership/get-invo…
A @NatMetabolism paper by Daniel Powell, PhD & Roddy O'Connor, PhD provides a clue to why T-cell-based immunotherapies don’t work very well against ovarian cancers, showing the impact of the ovarian cancer tumor environment & suggesting a new strategy.
🔬: nature.com/articles/s42255-0…
An insightful plenary session with Rajendra Singh MD, Professor of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania, explored how artificial intelligence is transforming everyday pathology workflows.
#PathVisions26
Wonderful to have Dr. Annette Kim (back) on campus today to give an engaging Grand Rounds talk! It was a packed house and our team greatly appreciated her thoughtful take on addressing the gaps in precision medicine.
Excited to see our faculty member Don Siegel, MD, PhD's upcoming talk at the @ASCP_Chicago 2026 Annual Meeting highlighted by @pathologistmag! Be sure to check it out if you are attending in November.
🔬: thepathologist.com/issues/20…
🎉Congrats to Joseph Zackular, PhD and Mingyao Li, PhD on receiving a 2026 Penn Medicine Award of Excellence! Dr. Zackular received the Michael S. Brown New Investigator Research Award & Dr. Li the Michael P. Nusbaum Graduate Student Mentoring Award.
🔬: med.upenn.edu/evpdeancommuni…
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. John Lambris, @LambrisJD, on receiving the impressive 2026 Biochemical Analytics Award from the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL) for his groundbreaking research on the human immune system!!
🔬: medlabportal.com/medlabaward…
Great to see Penn PLM Faculty, @carlhjune featured in this @USATODAY piece on ambitious research projects. “To have a big impact you need to go for the three-pointers,” says June.
🔬: usatoday.com/story/news/2026…
🎉 Congratulations to Andrew Rech, MD, PhD, who was recently named the Early Career Investigator Honoree by @AACR! He will be honored at the Party With a Purpose for his ongoing efforts to advance cancer immunotherapy.
🔬: aacr.org/blog/2026/09/21/par…
🎉Congratulations to @ZhiHuangPhD for being named a @CityAndStatePA 2026 Trailblazer in Healthcare! We are so proud to have you on our team and this is a well deserved honor for all of your amazing work.
🔬: cityandstatepa.com/power-lis…
So honored to be named one of @CityAndStatePA 2026 #Trailblazers in Healthcare!
cityandstatepa.com/power-lis…
At Penn, our work focuses on developing AI technologies for computational pathology and precision medicine, with the goal of transforming complex medical images and multimodal data into tools that can ultimately improve disease diagnosis and treatment.
@PennPathLabMed
Congratulations to LGH Medical Technologist, Rajan Malla Thakuri on being named a Penn Medicine Difference Maker!! Rajan also serves as a certified Nepali interpreter through the Linguistic Employee Advancement Program & was recognized for great support of patients & families.
Huge congratulations to @lisanwang on earning the University of Pennsylvania a place on the 2026 @awscloud AWS Higher Education Champions list for work building a cloud-native genomic data platform for Alzheimer’s disease & related dementias research!
🔬: govtech.com/champions/2026/h…
Med students, join our own Dr. Rose Wu, @RoseannIWu, tonight at 8:00 PM ET to follow a real case from biopsy to diagnosis and discover how pathologists guide patient care through clinical reasoning, testing, and collaboration.
Register 🔬: cap-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Another impressive paper by Dr. Sara Cherry in @MolecularCell reveals a mechanism that allows cells to fine-tune their antiviral defenses and develop an “immune memory.”
Read the paper🔬: cell.com/molecular-cell/full…