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

Researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine have discovered that the Hippo signaling effector YAP1 is a master regulator of Nodal signaling in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for a process essential to human development.

To survive in hostile environments, bacteria attach to one another, forming a supportive framework known as a biofilm. In biofilms of Salmonella  – a major cause of food-borne diarrheal illness – a key component of this framework is curli amyloid protein. Now, in new research, scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine show that the repression of curli by an environmental factor in the intestine plays a critical role in freeing Salmonella bacteria of strain S.