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October 22, 2025
Faculty and colleagues recently gathered to honor Kenny J. Simansky, PhD, professor emeritus of pharmacology and physiology, and psychiatry, who stepped down as senior vice dean of the Office of Research in July. For more than 40 years, Dr. Simansky’s visionary leadership, pioneering research and unwavering dedication to education made him a driving force behind the College’s evolution.
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October 20, 2025
Scientists from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center have uncovered a crucial structural feature of a key malaria drug target, known as PfATP4, and discovered a previously unknown binding partner that could reshape antimalarial drug design.
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October 9, 2025
Drexel University announced the launch of Drexel Health Clinical Operations, a transformative initiative that unifies all clinical health services under a centralized structure. Drexel Health Clinical Operations will streamline operations and ensure compliance across the University’s diverse clinical enterprise, which spans 28 clinical entities across eight colleges and schools.
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October 9, 2025
Every summer since 2003, dozens of rising second-year undergraduate students at Drexel University have received funding to spend 10 weeks learning the ropes of research either in established labs or as independent study. It’s all part of the Pennoni Honors College’s STAR Scholars program, which has enabled generations of Dragons to research advanced topics at a higher level — all in their first year at the University.
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September 26, 2025
While Drexel University’s Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center has offered the Young Dragons summer camp for local middle school students since 2016, this year’s program had more weeks, more participants, more programs, more partners and more field trips than ever before.
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September 4, 2025
Last month, at the annual White Coat Ceremony, the College of Medicine welcomed its newest class of medical students. Upon matriculation, they are placed into one of seven learning societies, giving them the opportunity to build relationships with their peers from day one. Each society is named after a famous historical Philadelphia or Reading, Pennsylvania, landmark.
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August 26, 2025
Amid an uncertain time for the future of COVID-19, and whether new variants will appear, a recently published prediction formula — built using data from 1,102 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 20 hospitals nationwide — now gives a better estimation about an individual’s projected disease outlook and could help the research community understand why some individuals have a level of natural immunity and why others are more susceptible to severe infection.
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August 25, 2025
Researchers from Drexel University’s College of Arts and Sciences and College of Medicine have found a potential new therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease. Expanding on their previous research on Tip60 histone acetyltransferase (HAT), known as the Tip60 enzyme, which controls genes that promote learning and memory in the brain, the Drexel research team generated small molecular compounds that activate Tip60 and restore deficits in the brain found in Alzheimer’s disease patients, such as gene expression programs linked to learning, memory and neurodegeneration.
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August 20, 2025
If you've ever attended an event with Dean Cairns, chances are you've ended up in a selfie with him. After more than five years of snapping selfies at College of Medicine events, we asked him to share some of his favorites from his camera roll. Then we sat down with him to reflect on the photos and the memories behind them.
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August 19, 2025
Fifty members of the Salus at Drexel PA Class of 2027 were welcomed to the practice of medicine at their White Coat Ceremony on August 19, 2025.
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