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In selecting the Class of 2026, the Lewis Katz School of the Medicine for the first time included the perspectives of North Philadelphia community members, who interviewed each of the prospective medical students and had a say in the Admissions Committee’s decisions.

As momentous as the Lewis Katz School of Medicine’s 120th commencement was for the graduates, their families, and the participating faculty, it was also wonderfully normal.

The 2022 Reunion & Alumni Weekend, April 29-30, welcomed more than 200 alumni and friends, who joined together to celebrate the past as well as the school’s exciting advances in medical education and research.

Experts predict that a technology called POCUS will transform the practice of medicine. And, in a first for medical education in the eastern United States, the Lewis Katz School of Medicine has supplied the technology to every medical student in its classes of 2024 and 2025 within the same academic year.

Thanks to a generous, forward-thinking North Philadelphian named Florence P. Bernheimer (1890-1985), Dr. Daniel Edmundowicz now holds Temple University’s Florence P. Bernheimer Distinguished Service Professorship Chair – and has funding earmarked for research in cardiology at Temple.

Taking a major step forward in HIV research, Temple researchers have successfully edited SIV – a virus closely related to HIV, the cause of AIDS – from the genomes of non-human primates. This breakthrough brings the research team closer than ever to developing a cure for human HIV infection.