Penn Undergrads Help Dr. Malek Kamoun in Efforts to Improve Kidney Matching

Penn Path & Lab Professor Dr. Malek Kamoun and Dr. Ryan Urbanowicz of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are developing machine learning strategies to improve matching in kidney transplants and decrease the risk of recipient graft failure. This summer, they received help from three Penn students through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program.  

HLA amino acid Mismatch-Based risk stratification of kidney allograft failure using a novel Machine learning algorithm

Development of a novel, evolutionary algorithm - Feature Inclusion Bin Evolver for Risk Stratification (FIBERS) - and the application of the algorithm to automatically discover bins of HLA amino ac

Rittenhouse Molecular Laboratory

The Rittenhouse Molecular Laboratory offers high-throughput testing with a focus on infectious diseases, such as COVID-19.

Wang Lab Develops SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Assay With High Sensitivity

Antigen test detects small loads of SARS-CoV-2 with sensitivity as high as a PCR test and moves toward POCT application.

Femtomolar SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Detection Using the Microbubbling Digital Assay with Smartphone Readout Enables Antigen Burden Quantitation and Tracking

Project Quaker Rolled Out for On-Campus COVID-19 Testing

Large-scale COVID-19 screening program known as Project Quaker is being rolled out across campus with the goal of conducting 40,000 saliva-based tests each week.