Penn Medicine received a $25 million gift from the Smilow Foundation to launch a precision therapeutics center.<\/p>\n
The University announced the donation \u2014 led by Foundation President and CEO William Smilow \u2014\u00a0on Oct. 8. The Smilow Center for Precision Therapeutics aims to bring new treatments and curative therapies to Penn Med patients with cardiovascular disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a press release, Smilow \u2014 \u00a0a Penn Med board member \u2014 expressed<\/a> hope that the center will contribute to the foundation\u2019s \u201ccommitment to advancing the science needed to cure heart disease and spare future generations from its impact.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHeart disease has touched my family personally, which makes this mission genuinely meaningful to me,\u201d he added. \u201cThere is no institution better positioned than Penn to turn that vision into reality.\u201d<\/p>\n Smilow also serves as a member of the Penn Cardiovascular Institute Leadership Council and the Penn Medicine Development Leadership Cabinet.<\/p>\n Get the DP delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n Sign Up<\/a><\/p>\n Penn President Larry Jameson wrote in the release that the gift will help \u201cfuel innovation and accelerate discoveries that will change the trajectory of cardiovascular medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n The center will allow experts from multiple Penn Med disciplines to plan for and bring treatments to patients for the first time. Such treatments include expanded gene-editing and other precision therapies that aim to address the underlying causes of cardiovascular disease. The center aims to facilitate a collaborative effort and leverage Penn experts to accomplish its mission.<\/p>\n \u201cWilliam Smilow has already contributed immeasurably to our remarkable success in translating scientific discoveries into treatments, and this new gift is equally visionary,\u201d Jameson added.<\/p>\n The foundation has previously supported Penn Med. This donation follows a 2012 gift<\/a> from Smilow and his father, the late Joel Smilow, which named the Smilow Center for Translational Research<\/a> and created the William Smilow Professorship<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe launch of the Smilow Center for Precision Therapeutics marks a transformative moment for Penn Medicine and for the future of cardiovascular care,\u201d Michael Parmacek, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine wrote in the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n He emphasized that the center will \u201ccreate entirely new scientific and clinical capabilities that accelerate discovery, attract world-class talent, and bring personalized therapies to patients with unprecedented speed and precision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn Medicine received a $25 million gift from the Smilow Foundation to launch a precision therapeutics center. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-304934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}