Research & Development
The type of research in which a patient's T-cells are removed from the body and adapted to attack cancer cells.
What is CAR T-cell therapy?
This diabetics management company just completed its merger in Q4 2020.
What is Livongo Health?
In a September 2020 Nature publication, Penn researchers discovered that epigenetic regulators played a crucial role in the onset of this neurodegenerative disease.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
This person is the American Music Award's artist of the year 2020.
Who is Taylor Swift?
The multimedia project recently released by the Special Initiatives committee, now available on Spotify.
What is the PUBS Podcast?
This disease is the formal name for allogenic transplant rejection and is a major focus of biotech development
What is graft vs. host disease (GHD)?
The drug with the greatest total revenue for the past five years.
What is Humira (Adalimumab)
This lab at Penn developed the initial mRNA technology used by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
What is the Weissman lab?
The 3rd installment of this movie franchise just released on Netflix, just in time for Valentine's Day.
What is To All the Boys I've Loved Before?
March 4th is the date of this PUBS event.
When is the next GBM?
These drug delivery systems introduce drugs through the skin and are sometimes accompanied by microneedles.
What are transdermal patches?
A prescription drug that surpasses $1 billion in sales.
What is a blockbuster drug?
This Philadelphia-based biotech company just last week announced an expansion of its collaboration with UPenn in the R&D and funding of more advanced CAR-T cell treatments.
What is Tmunity (or Tmunity Therapeutics?)
This artist performed at the 2018 Super Bowl halftime show.
Who is Justin Timberlake?
The CEO of Ultragenyx that PUBS invited last semester for a fireside chat.
Who is Emil Kakkis?
This is the principal component in the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines that shields against blood plasma proteins
What is PEG (polyethylene glycol)?
The most profitable cancer immunotherapy drug.
What is Keytruda (pembrolizumab)?
In October 2020, this term was given by UPenn researchers to a rare genetic form of dementia that occurred due to a mutation in the Valosin-containing protein (VCP) gene, which clears protein aggregates in the brain.
What is a vacuolar tauopathy?
The top selling music album of all time.
What is Thriller (Michael Jackson)?
This semester is when PUBS was formed at Penn.
What is Spring 2015?