Excision BioTherapeutics, Inc. has secured $60 million in investor financing to advance CRISPR-based gene editing constructs developed by Temple's Dr. Kamel Khalili.
In this new role, Dr. Cash will be a crucial member of the Student Affairs team, working closely with the Office of Medical Education and Office of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
A team led by Dr. Jessica Beard sought to determine the magnitude of Philadelphia’s increase in firearm violence during the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand potential causes of the rise.
The new structure encompasses contemporary constructs that better support curricular evolution, improve mentoring and faculty development, and enhance research production to optimize scientific academic and clinical interdisciplinary collaborations.
Dr. Herman Hurwitz, a 1962 graduate of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and his wife Sandra Hurwitz, have committed a gift of $1.2 million to the Katz School of Medicine.
Dr. Deborah Crabbe will receive funding from the Edna Kynett Foundation to start a pilot program which provides mentorship and research training experiences to medical trainees from under-represented minority groups focused on Racial- and Sex-specific Cardiovascular Disease Disparities in COVID-19.