Department News

Penn Dental Medicine's Dr. Henry Daniell Transforming How Enzymes Get Made

Dr. Henry Daniell Recognized with Named Professorship

Philadelphia –Penn Dental Medicine’s Dr. Henry Daniell has been recognized with a named professorship, becoming the W.D. Miller Professor, effective March 1. This honorific title recognizes his many contributions to Penn Dental Medicine since his recruitment and appointment as Professor in the School’s Department of Biochemistry in 2012. “Dr. Daniell’s work has brought Penn Dental...

Modeling the Most Common Form of Vision Loss in Older Adults

A study from the lab of Dr. Kathy Battaglia has characterized a new animal model for age-related macular degeneration that will help to further probe the condition.

Dr. Henry Daniell a Featured Panelist at Power of Penn London Event

Philadelphia – Dr. Henry Daniell, Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Penn Dental Medicine, was among the featured panelist at the London Campaign Kickoff Celebration for The Power of Penn: Advancing Knowledge for Good, held November 15 in Plaisterers’ Hall, London. Penn President Amy Gutmann hosted the event that drew Penn...

PA Senators Visit Dental’s High-Tech Greenhouse

Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine welcomed Pennsylvania State Senators to its high-tech research greenhouse as part of a recent visit by the PA Senate Appropriations Committee members to Pennovation Works, Penn’s hub for innovation, designed to bridge the intellectual and entrepreneurial initiatives for advancing knowledge and generating economic development. The research greenhouse of Dr. Henry...

Dr. Henry Daniell’s Invention on Hypertension Featured in Penn's Vagelos LSM Capstone Course

A project from the lab of Dr. Daniell using his plant-based platform for the production and oral delivery of protein therapies was among those innovations in the capstone course.

Penn Team Characterizes Underlying Cause of a Form of Macular Degeneration

Collaborating with Penn Vet, Dr. Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, Dept. of Biochemistry, contributed her expertise in lipid biochemistry and spectral analysis of lipid debris to the study.

Penn Dental Medicine Professor Unlocking the Mysteries of Mast Cells

Dr. Hydar Ali, in the Dept. of Pathology, has spent his career discerning mast cells’ unique qualities and honing in on strategies to modulate their activity to improve health.

Plant-made Hemophilia Therapy Shows Promise, Penn Dental Study Finds

A new study from the lab of Dr. Henry Daniell gives hope for a therapy to keep hemophilia patients from developing antibodies that cause a rejection of clotting-factor infusions.

Penn Dental Team Tweaks DNA to Improve Plant-based Medicines

Dr. Henry Daniell's lab has designed a software program that converts any given DNA sequence into the sequence preferred by either lettuce or tobacco plants.