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 Hong Kong-based company specializing in AI-powered drug discovery partnered with 4B Technologies in August 2021 to develop drugs for ALS.
What is Insilico Medicine?
In July 2021, a group of Penn researchers led by Dr. William Peranteau successfully corrected Hurler syndrome in mice before and after birth using this gene editing system.
What is CRISPR/CRISPR base editing?
This Netflix survival drama, upon its release this past September, quickly topped the weekly most-watched shows globally and became the #1 show in over 90 countries.
What is Squid Game?
This PUBS committee is responsible for working in teams to provide biotech startups with market research/assessments and insights on the commercialization process.
What is the Consulting Committee?
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?
This person won the Hip-Hop Album of the Year at the 2021 BET Awards.
Who is Tyler the Creator?
The multimedia project begun last year by the Special Initiatives committee, now available on Spotify
What is the PUBS Podcast?
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?
In September 2021, Penn's Wistar Institute received an $11.7M grant to study this disease, the fifth deadliest form of cancer overall.
What is melanoma?
This artist performed at the 2018 Super Bowl halftime show.
Who is Justin Timberlake?
The CEO of Ultragenyx that PUBS invited in Fall 2020 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)?
Last year, 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?