University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA·Private·Medical school
90 labs on PI Pages. It spends $2.2B a year on research and awards 750 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 32,816: 13,139 undergraduates, 19,677 graduate
- Postdocs
- 1,288
- Faculty
- 2,268 full-time
- Campus
- Highly residential
Labs here
Patrick Walsh
Chemistry
Develop enantioselective nickel-catalyzed cross-electrophile coupling, which joins sulfur electrophiles with aryl or alkyl halides, to make diaryl and alkyl aryl sulfoxides enriched in one mirror-image form.
Tianquan Lian
Chemistry
Extend electron spin lifetimes in semiconductor nanoplatelets by increasing electron–hole separation in three-component nanoplatelet heterostructures (crystals built from layered materials), then use the best structures as donors.
Maciej Pankiewicz
Education Research
Extend the Decimal Point mathematics learning game so that a large language model generates hints personalized to each student's problem-solving history, misconceptions and in-game learning behaviors.
Matthew McHugh
Public Health & Epidemiology
Determine whether organizational changes in nursing, such as staffing and work environment reforms, have lasting effects on patient outcomes and cost, using a panel of hospitals, nurse surveys and patient data from 7 states going back to 1999.
Nancy Speck
Biology
Determine which components of the TGFβ/BMP signaling pathways must be inhibited, and at what time, to improve maturation of SMAD7-deficient pre-HSCs into HSCs, using a quantitative ex vivo culture system with mouse embryo cells.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.