CT3N In the News
Bioengineers on the brink of breaching blood-brain barrier (Mike Mitchell)
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Little Bots that Could Put a Stop to Infectious Disease (Hyun Koo)
Monday, January 8, 2024
The NEMO Prize Goes to Research Improving Soft-Tissue Transplant Surgeries (Sergei Vinogradov)
Monday, November 27, 2023
New ‘Patch’ Uses Natural Body Motion to Fix Disc Herniation (Daeyeon Lee)
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Lipid Nanoparticles That Deliver mRNA to T Cells Hold Promise for Autoimmune Diseases (Mike Mitchell)
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Penn Medicine Research Sheds New Light on Immune Response During SARS-CoV-2 Breakthrough Infections (John Wherry)
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s Historic mRNA Vaccine Research Team, Win 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Monday, October 2, 2023
Bioengineering Faculty Member Named ‘Young Innovator’ for Creation of Multiple Myeloma Therapy (Mike Mitchell)
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
César de la Fuente Named ELHM Scholar by National Academy of Medicine
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Improved Gene Editing Method Could Power the Next Generation of Cell and Gene Therapies (E. John Wherry)
Friday, April 28, 2023
Five from Penn Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023 (E. John Wherry)
Monday, April 24, 2023
Daeyeon Lee Receives Outstanding Achievement Award in Nanoscience from American Chemical Society
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Four distinguished researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center will receive Scientific Achievement Awards at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023 (E. John Wherry)
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
César de la Fuente named AIMBE Fellow
Monday, March 27, 2023
CHOP Researchers Show Serotonin Can Contribute to Heart Valve Disease (Robert Levy)
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
RNA Lipid Nanoparticle Engineering Stops Liver Fibrosis in its Tracks, Reverses Damage (Mike Mitchell)
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
OCTOPUS, an Optimized Device for Growing Mini-Organs in a Dish (Dan Huh)
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Kirigami Technique Hints at Promising Outcomes for Breast Reconstruction (Shu Yang)
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Awards & Accolades: November 2022 (Donald Siegel)
Friday, December 2, 2022
‘Organ-on-a-Chip’ Device Provides New Insights into Early-Stage Pregnancy (Dan Huh)
Monday, November 28, 2022
Penn Scientists Develop 20-Subtype mRNA Flu Vaccine to Protect Against Future Flu Pandemics (Drew Weissman)
Friday, November 25, 2022
Toothbrushing Microbots on Walter Isaacson’s ‘Trailblazers’ Podcast (Michael Koo)
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Five Penn Medicine Experts Elected to National Academy of Medicine (Drew Weissman)
Monday, October 17, 2022
Eight Penn Scientists Receive NIH Grants through High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program (Terence Gade)
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
2022 CAREER Award Recipient: Lukasz Bugaj
Monday, September 12, 2022
Adapting to Extreme Heat in Philadelphia to Increase Human Vitality (Russ Composto)
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Shu Yang Named a 2022 Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Monday, August 1, 2022
Shapeshifting Microrobots Can Brush and Floss Teeth (Hyun Koo)
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Penn Engineers Develop a New Method that Could Enable a Patient’s Own Antibodies to Eliminate Their Tumors (Andrew Tsourkas)
Friday, May 20, 2022
Awards & Accolades (César de la Fuente)
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Penn Researchers Shorten Manufacturing Time for CAR T Cell Therapy (Michael Milone)
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Decentralizing Vaccine Manufacture (Daeyeon Lee)
Thursday, March 24, 2022
CHOP Researchers Refine Experimental Prodrug Treatment of High-Risk Neuroblastoma (Michael Chorny)
Monday, March 14, 2022
Bioengineering Spin-off Vivodyne on Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative’ List (Dan Huh)
Thursday, March 10, 2022
CHOP Researchers Show Modifying Bioprosthetic Heart Valves with Polymer Can Improve Durability (Robert Levy)
Monday, February 7, 2022
Newly Discovered ‘Encrypted Peptides’ Found in Human Plasma Exhibit Antibiotic Properties (César de la Fuente)
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Michael Mitchell receives the 2022 SFB Young Investigator Award
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Five Perelman School of Medicine Faculty Among 10 Penn 2021 AAAS Fellows (E. John Wherry)
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
New Lipid Nanoparticles Improve mRNA Delivery for Engineering CAR T Cells (Michael Mitchell)
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Penn Medicine Researchers Develop New Method to Increase Effectiveness of Nanomedicines (J. Brenner, J. Myerson)
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Vaccine-like mRNA Injection Can Be Used to Make CAR T cells in the Body (D Weissman, H Parhiz)
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Penn Medicine Researchers Develop Structural Blueprint of Nanoparticles to Target White Blood Cells Responsible for Acute Lung Inflammation (J. Myerson, J. Brenner)
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Single-cell Cancer Detection Project Wins 2021 NEMO Prize (Andrew Tsourkas)
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Penn Researchers Show ‘Encrypted’ Peptides Could be Wellspring of Natural Antibiotics (César de la Fuente)
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Penn Anti-Cancer Engineering Center Will Delve Into the Disease’s Physical Fundamentals (Dennis Discher)
Monday, October 11, 2021
Penn mRNA Scientists Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó Receive 2021 Lasker Award, America’s Top Biomedical Research Prize
Friday, September 24, 2021
Penn Engineers Will Use NSF Grant to Develop ‘DReAM’ for On-demand, On-site mRNA Manufacturing (Lee, Stebe, Mitchell)
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Show Robust T-Cell Responses to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines (E John Wherry)
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Awards & Accolades: August 2021 (César de la Fuente)
Monday, September 13, 2021
Penn Engineering’s Artificial Chromatophores Enable Surfaces with Squid-like Active Camouflage (Shu Yang)
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Penn Study Details Robust T-Cell Response to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines—a More Durable Source of Protection (E John Wherry)
Monday, August 16, 2021
Developing Endotracheal Tubes that Release Antimicrobial Peptides (Riccardo Gottardi)
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Penn Engineers Create Faster and Cheaper COVID-19 Testing With Pencil Lead (César de la Fuente)
Monday, August 9, 2021
With a ‘Liquid Assembly Line,’ Penn Researchers Produce mRNA-Delivering Nanoparticles a Hundred Times Faster than Standard Microfluidic Technologies (Mike Mitchell)
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Robert Carpick Earns AVS Nanotechnology Recognition Award
Monday, June 21, 2021
Bioengineering’s Organ-on-a-chip Spin-off is Growing (D. Huh)
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Modified Nanoparticles Can Stop Osteoarthritis Development (Z Cheng)
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Penn, CHOP and Yale Researchers’ Molecular Simulations Uncover How Kinase Mutations Lead to Cancer Progression (R. Radhakrishnan)
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Deep Immune Profiling Shows Significant Immune Activation in Children with MIS-C (E. John Wherry)
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Kathleen Stebe Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Penn Engineers’ New Bioprinting Technique Allows for Complex Microtissues (J. Burdick)
Thursday, February 4, 2021
New Treatment Target Discovered That Halts Osteoarthritis-Like Knee Cartilage Degeneration (Zhiliang Cheng)
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Awards and Accolades: December 2020 (Michael Milone)
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Penn Engineering and CHOP Researchers Identify Nanoparticles that Could Be Used in Therapeutic mRNA Delivery before Birth (Michael Mitchell)
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Penn Medicine mRNA Vaccine Technology Pioneer and Health Policy Experts Join Together to Discuss COVID Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization Plans (D. Weissman; E.J. Wherry)
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Penn researchers find a way through the labyrinth keeping CAR-T from solid tumors (Yi Fan)
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Penn Medicine Scientists Engineer Bacteria-Killing Molecules from Wasp Venom (de la Fuente)
Monday, October 12, 2020
New Research from Penn Engineering and MIT Shows How Nanoparticles Can Turn Off Genes in Bone Marrow (Michael Mitchell)
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
César de la Fuente on AIChE’s ’35 Under 35′ List
Thursday, October 1, 2020
New Strategy Against Autoimmune Disease Demonstrates Safety and Efficacy in Preclinical Animal Models (Michael Milone)
Friday, September 18, 2020
Tsourkas Lab and Penn Start-up AlphaThera Awarded NIH Grant to Improve COVID-19 Detection Assays
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Getting gene therapy to the brain (John H Wolfe)
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Glowing dye may aid in eliminating cancer (David Holt)
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Penn’s Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) Receives $8 Million Grant (Trevor Penning)
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Awards & Accolades (César de la Fuente)
Thursday, June 4, 2020
New “Blueprint” of Exhausted T Cell Lifespan Could Help Build Better Immunotherapies (E. John Wherry)
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
A new tool for cell biologists (Virgil Percec)
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Cavity-causing bacteria assemble an army of protective microbes (Hyun Michel Koo)
Monday, May 18, 2020
Penn Researchers Receive $1.05 Million Grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (Dan Donegeun Huh)
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Four Penn faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Kathleen Stebe)
Friday, April 24, 2020
Racing to deliver a vaccine to the masses (David Weiner)
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Targeting Stromal Cells May Help Overcome Treatment Resistance in Glioblastoma (Yi Fan)
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
A promising new strategy to help broken bones heal faster (Henry Daniell)
Friday, February 21, 2020
Advancing an oral drug for pulmonary arterial hypertension (Henry Daniell)
Friday, February 14, 2020
Awards & Accolades (César de la Fuente)
Monday, February 10, 2020
Penn nanoparticles are less toxic to T cells engineered for cancer immunotherapy (Michael Mitchell)
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Ravi Radhakrishnan Named Chair of the Department of Bioengineering
Friday, January 24, 2020
Penn Study Paves Way for New Vaccines to Protect Infants Against Infections (Drew Weissman)
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Jason Burdick Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Computer-generated antibiotics, biosensor Band-Aids, and the quest to beat antibiotic resistance (Cesar de la Fuente)
Monday, December 2, 2019
Penn Engineers Devise Easier Way of Sneaking Antibodies into Cells (Andrew Tsourkas)
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Six Penn Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Medicine (James Eberwine)
Monday, October 21, 2019
Penn Engineers Solve the Paradox of Why Tissue Gets Stiffer When Compressed (Paul Janmey)
Monday, October 14, 2019
Seven Penn Medicine Scientists Receive National Institutes of Health Director’s Awards (James Eberwine)
Friday, October 4, 2019
Artificial Cells Can Deliver Molecules Better Than the Real Thing
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Daeyeon Lee Wins James M. Lee Memorial Award from Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Robert Carpick Named ASME Fellow
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Penn Immunologist and Collaborators Receive $10 Million NIH Renewal to Study Potential of Cancer-Focused Therapy on Infectious Diseases
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Six Penn Medicine Physician-Scientists Elected to the Association of American Physicians
Monday, April 8, 2019
Awards & Accolades: March 2019
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Ivan Dmochowski Receives Dean’s Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Research
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Ivan Dmochowski Named Alan MacDiarmid Term Professor
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Penn Bioengineers: Cells Control Their Own Fate by Manipulating their Environment
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Michael Mitchell Wins Controlled Release Society T. Nagai Award
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Daeyeon Lee Named 2019 Penn Fellow
Monday, March 18, 2019
Portonovo Ayyaswamy Named American Society of Mechanical Engineers Honorary Member
Monday, March 18, 2019
Christopher Murray Elected to National Academy Of Engineering
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Michael Mitchell Receives BMES Rising Star Award
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Dan Huh Wins 2018 Lush Science Prize for Organ-on-a-Chip Work
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Three Penn Engineers Recognized as APS Fellows
Monday, November 19, 2018
Penn Engineers’ Liquid Crystal Force Fields Enable New Kind of Microrobotics
Monday, November 12, 2018
Johnson & Johnson Start-Up Incubator JPOD Hosts Five Engineering Companies
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Seven Penn Researchers Receive NIH Director’s Awards [Michael Mitchell - New Innovator Award]
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
The 2018 Penn Medicine Awards of Excellence Recipients for Research include: Stanley N. Cohen Biomedical Research Award to Roger A. Greenberg, MD, PhD, of the Department of Cancer Biology.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Targeting Hard-to-Reach Domains with Nanogel Drug Carriers Abstract Video appears on Advanced Science News (featuring Vladimir Muzykantov's Lab)
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Immunologist, E. John Wherry, Named Chair of Systems Pharmacology, effective July 1, 2018
Monday, July 23, 2018
Penn Medicine’s Garret FitzGerald, Cardiovascular Disease and Translational Medicine Expert, Elected to Italian Science Academy
Monday, July 30, 2018
Therapy for Rare Cancers Receives FDA Approval Following Trials at Penn’s Abramson Cancer [Daniel A. Pryma, quoted]
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Dental plaque is no match for catalytic nanoparticles [featuring David Cormode]
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Candidate for Universal Flu Vaccine Protects Against Multiple Strains in Preclinical Study [Drew Weissman quoted]
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Red-Blood-Cell “Hitchhikers” Offer New Way to Transport Drugs to Specific Targets [Ft. Vladimir Muzykantov and Jake Brenner]
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Letting nanoparticles hitchhike on red blood cells [Ft. Vladimir Muzykantov and Jake Brenner]
Friday, July 20, 2018
Penn Medicines Garret FitzGerald MD FRS Elected to the German National Academy of Sciences
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Penn-led Trial Shows AZEDRA Can Be Effective, Safe for Treatment of Rare Neuroendocrine Tumors [PI: Daniel A. Pryma]
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Penn Medicine Researcher, James Eberwine, Joins International Collaboration to Better Understand How Cells Regulate Energy Production
Friday, May 4, 2018
Calculus III for cells [Kathleen Stebe quoted]
Monday, April 23, 2018
Penn Cancer Researchers Receive $2.7 Million from V Foundation to Better Understand PARP Inhibitors and Treat BRCA Cancers [Roger A. Greenberg]
Thursday, March 29, 2018
A fake organ mimics what happens in the blink of an eye [Dan Huh]
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Jason Burdick Receives Heilmeier Research Award
Penn Researchers Develop an Injectable Gel that Helps Heart Muscle Regenerate after a Heart Attack [Jason Burdick]
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
First Microscopic Video of Blood Clot Contraction Reveals How Platelets Naturally Form Unobtrusive Clots [Team led by John W. Weisel]
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Penn Researchers Working to Mimic Giant Clams to Enhance the Production of Biofuel [Shu Yang]
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Penn Engineers Develop Filters That Use Nanoparticles to Prevent Slime Build-up [Study was led by Daeyeon Lee]
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Robert Carpick Named 2017 MRS Fellow
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Organs on Chips [Dan Huh]
Monday, August 28, 2017
How DNA Damage Turns Immune Cells Against Cancer [Roger Greenberg]
Monday, July 31, 2017
Cancer survivor becomes a cancer fighter at a Philly start-up [Andrew Tsourkas and David Cormode]
Friday, July 28, 2017
Penn Researchers Engineer Macrophages to Engulf Cancer Cells in Solid Tumors [Led by Dennis Discher]
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Penn Engineers Show Key Feature for Modeling How Cells Spread in Fibrous Environments
Friday, May 26, 2017
Garret FitzGerald Receives American Heart Association Merit Award to Enhance Blood Pressure Control
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Penn Neuroscientist Receives Scientific Innovations Award from the Brain Research Foundation
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Turning Patients' Cells into Therapeutic Antibody Factories - Podcast
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Powerful RNA-based Technology Could Help Shape the Future of Therapeutic Antibodies
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Penn Medicine: New Zika Vaccine Candidate Protects Mice and Monkeys with a Single Dose
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Penn Engineering and Medicine come together to lead the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine
Friday, November 4, 2016
Penn Engineering Launches Collaboration with the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine (CT3N)
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Penn Medicine Professor Receives Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Penn Researchers Improve Computer Modeling for Designing Drug-delivery Nanocarriers
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Penn Team Uses Nanoparticles to Break Up Plaque and Prevent Cavities
Monday, July 25, 2016
Penn Prof. Theresa Busch and Genisphere collaborate on targeted nanotherapeutics for photodynamic therapy
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Penn Pioneer in Translational Medicine Remarks on New National Academy of Sciences Report on Precision Medicine
Friday, March 4, 2016
Penn-Engineered Neural Networks Show Hope for Axonal Repair in the Brain, with Minimal Disruption to Brain Tissue
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
T Cells That Recognize HER2 Receptor May Be Key to Preventing HER2+ Breast Cancer Recurrence, Penn Study Finds
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
High Response Rates, Long-Term Remissions Seen In Penn Trials of Personalized Cellular Therapy CTL019 for Pediatric and Adult Blood Cancers
Monday, December 7, 2015
New Approach to Treating Heparin-induced Blood Disorder Revealed in Structure of Protein-Antibody Complex, Penn Study Finds
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Penn-developed, DNA-based Vaccine Clears Nearly Half of Precancerous Cervical Lesions in Clinical Trial
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Penn Team Pinpoints Immune Changes in Blood of Melanoma Patients on PD-1 Drugs That Put Potential Biomarker within Reach
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Abramson Cancer Center Researchers Report Long-Term Remissions in First Group of Patients to Receive Personalized Cellular Therapy for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Investigational T-cell Receptor Therapy Achieves Encouraging Clinical Responses in Multiple Myeloma Patients, Penn-led Study Finds
Monday, July 20, 2015
Penn Researchers' New Tracking Method Yields Insights into Mitochondrial Dynamics
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Penn Study Indicates that Gene Therapy Efficacy for LCA is Dynamic: Improvement is Followed by Decline in Vision
Monday, May 4, 2015
New Combination of Immunotherapy Drugs is Safe, Shrinks Tumors in Metastatic Melanoma Patients, Penn Study Finds
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Investigational Personalized Cellular Therapy Tolerated Well by Patients with Advanced Mesothelioma, Ovarian and Pancreatic Cancers
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Immunotherapy Drug Pembrolizumab Shows Early Promise for Mesothelioma Patients, Penn Medicine Researchers Find
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Penn Study Describes First Steps in Basic Biological Process that Could be Harnessed to Make Therapeutic Cells
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Blinking Cells: Penn Neuroscientist-Led Team is Finalist in NIH "Follow that Cell" Challenge to Fund Single Cell Biology
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Two Penn Medicine Gene Therapy Researchers Receive Pennsylvania Bio Awards
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Penn Medicine Immunotherapy Pioneer Carl June, MD, Awarded 2015 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Radiation Plus Immunotherapy Combo Revs up Immune System to Better Attack Metastatic Melanoma, Penn Study Suggests
Monday, March 9, 2015
Penn Medicine Study Describes Development of Personalized Cellular Therapy for Brain Cancer
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Penn Medicine's New Immunotherapy Study Will Pit PD-1 Inhibitor Against Advanced Lung Cancer
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Penn Researchers Show Value of Tissue-Engineering to Repair Major Peripheral Nerve Injuries
Friday, January 30, 2015