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The tangible impact of generosity filled the ballroom at the W Hotel on Thursday, March 23, as scholarship donors came together to celebrate with the students whose education they’ve helped make possible. An annual tradition for the school of medicine, the 2023 celebration was also notable as the first of Dean Amy J. Goldberg’s tenure.

Greater awareness and advances in treatment have greatly improved survival rates following heart attack. With more survivors, however, has come the challenge of managing long-term impacts on heart function, especially chronic heart failure, in which the heart gradually loses its ability to pump blood.

An ongoing challenge of cancer treatment is finding a way to use powerful chemotherapies to attack tumor cells while minimizing toxic side effects. A recent study by researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and Fox Chase Cancer Center has demonstrated a potential new way to avoid this problem by using nanoengineered stem cells as a drug delivery system.