News & Events

Anne Marie McCarthy, PhD, is featured on a new podcast discussing racial differences in background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) on breast MRI and how these findings may inform breast cancer risk assessment and screening.

Dr. Jeffrey Morris was featured in The Atlantic and New York Magazine’s Intelligencer, where he discussed major flaws in widely cited vaccine studies and the risks of bias in study design.

Carmen Guerra, MD, MSCE, is launching a mobile mammography program on July 13 to expand access to mammography for communities in and around Philadelphia.

Congratulations to Michael Harhay on being selected for the 2026–27 Penn Fellows cohort, recognizing his leadership and contributions as a mid-career faculty member.

Congratulations to Mingyao Li on receiving the 2026 Michael P. Nusbaum Graduate Student Mentoring Award, recognizing her outstanding dedication to mentoring and supporting graduate students.

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Merkel, who has been named a finalist for the Clinical Research Forum’s 2026 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards for his New England Journal of Medicine publication on treating giant cell arteritis.

Kyle Stanley, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics whose work centers on developing novel statistical methods to analyze wearable device data using functional data analysis, distributional modeling, and machine learning. In this Q&A, he reflects on what inspired his research journey and what he values most about the collaborative DBEI community.

Huilin Tang, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics whose work centers on advancing precision medicine for diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases through pharmacoepidemiology and data science. In this Q&A, he reflects on what inspired his research journey and what he values most about the collaborative DBEI community.

Zixuan (Eleanor) Zhang, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics whose work focuses on statistical and computational methods in statistical genetics. In this Q&A, she shares what inspired her research and what she values about the DBEI community.