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Meet a PennMedicine Researcher
Drew Weissman, MD, PhD
Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, is the co-recipient of the 2023 Dean's Distinguished Award, along with Dr. Katalin Karikó. The Dean's Distinguished Award recognizes an exceptional individual or collaborative team whose relentless pursuit of scientific excellence has resulted in a paradigm-shifting discovery that has indelibly transformed the global landscape of health care and scientific understanding. Nobel Prize Laureates Drs. Weissman and Karikó have pioneered research that has rewritten the annals of medical science and history. Their unwavering dedication to mRNA-based therapies has not only saved countless lives during the COVID-19 pandemic but has also unveiled a new frontier in medicine, offering hope for treating a wide spectrum of diseases, from cancer to genetic disorders. More about Dr. Weissman
Featured Publications
- Risk of meningomyelocele mediated by the common 22q11.2 deletion. Vong KI, Lee S, Au KS, Crowley TB, Capra V, Martino J, Haller M, ... Science (New York, N.Y.). 2024 May 3;384(6695):584-590 Epub 2024 May 2
- Depression - Understanding, Identifying, and Diagnosing. Anderson E, Crawford CM, Fava M, Ingelfinger J, Nikayin S, Sanacora G, Scott-Vernaglia S, ... The New England journal of medicine. 2024 May 2;390(17):e41
- My Digital Refuge. Wexler A JAMA. 2024 May 2
- FLT3L governs the development of partially overlapping hematopoietic lineages in humans and mice. Momenilandi M, Lévy R, Sobrino S, Li J, Lagresle-Peyrou C, Esmaeilzadeh H, Fayand A, ... Cell. 2024 May 2
- Hepatocytes coordinate immune evasion in cancer via release of serum amyloid A proteins. Stone ML, Lee J, Lee JW, Coho H, Tariveranmoshabad M, Wattenberg MM, Choi H, ... Nature immunology. 2024 May;25(5):755-763 Epub 2024 Apr 19
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