Understanding the Cellular Mechanisms Driving Solid Tumors’ Robust Defense System News / February 5, 2025 In a joint research project involving experts from different fields, researchers Michael Mitchell, Wei Guo, and Drew Weissman discovered that solid tumors can create a barrier that prevents drugs from reaching them, similar to a protective force field. Read More
Missing the Microbiome: Uncovering New Antibiotics Inside the Human Gut News / February 5, 2025 Penn Engineering and Stanford researchers leveraged AI to discover dozens of potential new antibiotics in the human gut microbiome. Read More
Empowering Future Engineers: Lyle Brunhofer and the Impact of Senior Design News / February 5, 2025 Lyle Brunhofer (EAS’14, GEng’14) advises companies on digital transformations, applying the skills he learned at Penn Engineering to modernize firms’ understanding of customers in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals and consumer products. Read More
Faculty Spotlight: Chinedum Osuji, Environmental Innovations Initiative News / December 10, 2024 In a Q&A with EII, Osuji describes his research and its connections to sustainability and the environment, explores how industry and... Read More
Mapping Media Bias: How AI Powers the Computational Social Science Lab’s Media Bias Detector News / December 10, 2024 The CSSLab’s Media Bias Detector empowers users to analyze bias in major news outlets, not just based on their political leaning, but on the... Read More
Looking to AI to Solve Antibiotic Resistance News / December 10, 2024 Antibiotics face a looming efficacy concern as the microbes these drugs target are acquiring resistance stemming from years of treatment... Read More
