Engineers Sharpen Gene-Editing Tools To Target Cystic Fibrosis News / February 23, 2026 Engineered A3G base editors reduce unintended “bystander” edits, yielding safer potential treatments for cystic fibrosis and more accurate models for drug testing. Read More
An Innovative AI Tool to Improve Health Care Delivery in Rural India News / February 6, 2026 Prithvi Parthasarathy, a fourth-year neuroscience major pursuing an accelerated master's in Bioengineering, designed an AI triage tool to improve hospital efficiency and patient care. Read More
The Small, High-Tech Beanie Protecting Premature Babies News / February 5, 2026 The Sonura Beanie, designed by former Penn Engineering students, is calming babies in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's intensive care nursery. Read More
Sophia Tang Wins CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award News / January 23, 2026 Sophia Tang, an undergraduate researcher at Penn Engineering, has received the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award for her pioneering work in generative AI for biology, advancing theoretical machine learning methods for therapeutic and biological design. Read More
The Path Forward: Penn Engineering 2030 News / January 13, 2026 The cover story of the 2025-2026 issue of Penn Engineering magazine explores Penn Engineering 2030, the School’s new strategic plan, which charts a bold, collaborative path forward in this new era for higher education. Read More
20 Breakthroughs of 2025 News / January 12, 2026 From ancient tombs and tiny robots to personalized gene editing and AI weather models, Penn’s 2025 research portfolio showed how curiosity paired with collaboration moves knowledge into impact and stretches across disciplines and continents. Read More
New Video Dataset to Advance AI for Health Care News / December 16, 2025 Penn’s new Observer platform provides anonymized video, audio and clinical data from real medical encounters, giving researchers an unprecedented tool for studying how care happens and training AI medical systems. Read More
How Might AI Shape the Future of Work? News / December 8, 2025 Konrad Kording, a computer scientist, and Ioana Marinescu, an economist, have developed an interactive model to generate meaningful predictions about how AI will affect wages, jobs and the overall economy. Read More
National Academy of Medicine Issues Code of Conduct to Guide Health Care’s AI Revolution News / November 12, 2025 Kevin Johnson, David L. Cohen University Professor, contributed to a new report with guidelines on incorporating AI in health care. Read More
Penn BMES Wins National Commendable Achievement Award News / October 30, 2025 The University of Pennsylvania’s chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) has been recognized nationally with the Commendable Achievement Award, the second-highest honor given to student chapters by the national BMES organization. Read More
