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Jun Yu, MD, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, who was recently granted tenure, is working hard to understand the basic science behind a leading cause of heart disease and to discover ways to stop it in its tracks.  

The Lewis Katz School of Medicine, home to highly skilled researchers and professors and known for its collaborative atmosphere, has long been on the cutting edge of biomedical research. Now, PhD and MD/PhD students in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at Temple stand to benefit even further from these in-house resources, gaining unprecedented opportunities to learn from researchers across multiple departments, thanks to a new $1 million T32 predoctoral training grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Stephen R. Permut, MD ’72, JD, FAAFP, FACP, FACLM, Professor and former Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, has been installed as the 160^th President of the Philadelphia County Medical Society. Founded in 1849, the Society -- one of the oldest county medical societies in the United States (founded in 1849) -- has more than 5,000 members who advocate for patients, public health, and high professional standards in medical practice and education.