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Alumni Spotlight: Jesse Weber, Scientist at Scribe Therapeutics

Getting ready to graduate and looking further afield for your job prospects? Curious what your industry options are outside of...

Everything you need to know about the unionization of graduate students at Penn

Eva Agostino

Nov 21

Everything you need to know about the unionization of graduate students at Penn

We summarize the ongoing unionization of the graduate student community at Penn.

James Gesualdi

Nov 21

Student Group Spotlight: Penn Science Policy and Diplomacy Group

We chat with the leaders of the Penn Science Policy and Diplomacy Student Group

Ariana Majer

Nov 21

Research Spotlight: Vi Pham

CAMB GTV student Vi Pham shares her exciting work on using a gene therapy approach to treat Multiple Sulfatase Disease

Eva Agostino

Nov 21

Addressing frequently asked questions about strikes

A run down of frequently asked questions about Graduate Student Union Strikes

Mara Davis

Feb 29

Faculty Profile

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Crystal Conn

Today we are interviewing Dr. Crystal Conn, an assistant professor in Radiation Oncology here at UPenn! Dr. Conn, a member of the Trainee...

James Gesualdi

Feb 29

Lethal versus Common-cold Coronaviruses

We are all familiar with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic that has now seen nearly 800 million...

Ariana Majer

Feb 29

Advice on Switching Labs

Have you ever thought about changing thesis labs? You are not alone. Changing labs may seem scary or impossible, but that’s because we...

Kay Labella

Feb 29

What is a Thesis?

Congratulations, CAMBer! Your prelim is passed, your paper is published, and your box has been checked on that Permission to Write form. ...

Big Pharma perspective: Monika Eiva – Scientist at The Janssen Pharmaceutical companies

Kanika Jain

May 19, 2022

Big Pharma perspective: Monika Eiva – Scientist at The Janssen Pharmaceutical companies

Dr. Monika Eiva is a Scientist in the Large Molecule and Drug Product Development department at the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of...

Industrial Postdoc perspective: Antonia Bass – Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Merck.

Kanika Jain

May 19, 2022

Industrial Postdoc perspective: Antonia Bass – Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Merck.

Dr. Antonia Bass is a postdoctoral research fellow at Merck since October 2020. Her project involves investigating innate immune...

Small Biotech perspective: Priya Khurana – Scientist at Catamaran Bio.

Kanika Jain

May 19, 2022

Small Biotech perspective: Priya Khurana – Scientist at Catamaran Bio.

Dr. Priya Khurana is a Scientist in the Cell Process group at Catamaran Bio, since July 2021.

Yee Hoon Foong

May 19, 2022

Changing the Face of STEM | SACNAS

Innovations from the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) fields have profoundly touched every aspect of human life. More...

James Gesualdi

May 19, 2022

Animal Reservoirs of SARS-CoV-2

Examining the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in wild white-tailed deer throughout Pennsylvania.

Alumni Spotlight: Jennifer Aleman, Science Grant Writer

Felicia Peng

Feb 28, 2022

Alumni Spotlight: Jennifer Aleman, Science Grant Writer

We speak with Dr. Jennifer Aleman, a 2021 Genetics & Epigenetics graduate about her experience as a science grant writer.

Yee Hoon Foong and Sylvia Stankov

Feb 24, 2022

Battle of the non-murine model systems

Yee Hoon Foong and Sylvia Stankov Model systems are an invaluable tool in the biomedical sciences. They serve as controlled stand-ins...

Mitochondrial Trafficking: A Two-Way Street

Megan Guerin

Feb 24, 2022

Mitochondrial Trafficking: A Two-Way Street

Opposing microtubule motors, such as the plus-end-directed kinesin and the minus-end-directed dynein, must work in tandem to actively...

Kay Labella

Feb 24, 2022

Your Turn to Roll

The tavern door creaks, swinging open before you into a room that glows golden with hearthlight. The clank of mugs and the clink of...

Creative CAMB-ers: Catching up with our Artistic CAMB StudentsCAMB: Beyond the Science

Aishwarya Pawar and Hannah Kolev

Nov 19, 2021

Creative CAMB-ers: Catching up with our Artistic CAMB StudentsCAMB: Beyond the Science

By Aishwarya Pawar and Hannah Kolev We have long suspected that there is more to CAMB students than their scientific expertise and...

Gender-neutral pronouns and their journey: Renaissance of ‘They’

Kanika Jain

Nov 19, 2021

Gender-neutral pronouns and their journey: Renaissance of ‘They’

By Kanika Jain Merriam-Webster recognized ‘they’ as its 2019 Word of the Year based on the number of dictionary lookups, and introduced...

Rendezvous with Dr. Bushra Raj of the Cell and Developmental Biology Department

Megan Guerin

Nov 19, 2021

Faculty Profile

Rendezvous with Dr. Bushra Raj of the Cell and Developmental Biology Department

By Megan Guerin I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Bushra Raj, a newly minted assistant professor in the Cell and...

Controlling the traffic flow in Endothelial-to-Hematopoietic Transition (EHT)

Yee Hoon Foong

Nov 19, 2021

Controlling the traffic flow in Endothelial-to-Hematopoietic Transition (EHT)

There is a great demand in the field of regenerative medicine to use autologous hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) for the treatment of hematolo

A burden unevenly shared: COVID-19 and its disproportionate effect on early career women scientists

Sylvia Stankov

Aug 10, 2021