THE CAMB STUDENT NEWSLETTER

Winter is once again upon us, but that doesn’t mean that you have to retire your bike while you await the arrival of spring. A few...

Influenza A viruses, the causative agent of the annual flu, infect birds and some mammals. The viruses are categorized into different...

Launched in August 2013, the Office of Inclusion and Diversity is a relatively new addition to Penn Medicine that supports, evaluates,...

Is the “traditional postdoc” actually traditional? Most graduate students who want to pursue the academic route aim to complete a...

Dr. Valder Arruda began his career in Sao Paulo, Brazil as a clinician specializing in hematology and hemotherapy. His first job was to...

Metabolic flexibility and rewiring is a distinctive feature of the cellular stress response and oncogenesis. The staggering breadth of...

Most students begin graduate school planning to pursue a traditional academic career path. As the years pass, some maintain this desire,...

Dr. Stephen DiNardo is the chair of DSRB (Developmental, Stem, & Regenerative Biology), but to the students in DSRB, he is so much more....

As human beings, we all grapple with the soul-searching question of what makes life meaningful. In his memoir When Breath Becomes Air,...

The newest CAMB students were welcomed with gusto both from the administration and upperclassmen. A variety of orientation activities...

Astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle...

As early as the 19th century, Walther Flemming and other biologists knew that a complex of genetic material and proteins—what we now...

An inclusive and diverse community is the cornerstone for an adaptable, creative, and sustainable academic center. The Penn community...

When was the last time that you went to the CAMB office? If you can run a PCR faster than you can recall your last visit, it’s time to...

The University of Pennsylvania is a leader in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell research and in translating basic research findings...

How do you transition from being a graduate student sitting in the audience of a lecture hall to becoming a professor presenting at the...

The Philadelphia Science Festival is a week-long event hosted by the Franklin Institute that focuses on engaging the public in science...

The first confirmed Zika virus (ZIKV) infections in Brazil were promulgated by the Pan American Health Organization in May 2015. By the...

One of the first successful tissue replacement therapies was artificial skin, developed by Drs. Ioannis Yannas and John Burke in 1979....

The immune system possesses the essential ability to detect and destroy abnormal cells, such as cancer cells. Recently, the critical...

There is a noticeable trend in recent times of science graduates pursuing alternative careers in science, to an extent where one might...

When I came to graduate school, I was excited to learn about both scientific research and science teaching. I specifically chose my...