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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Pennsylvania Newsletter for Tuesday January 21, 2025 ( 3 items )  

Immigrant Rights Organizations Demand Biden Use the Full Extent of the Executive Branch to Fulfill His Promise to Protect Families
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 18 (TNScaph) -- The American Friends Service Committee issued the following news release: Since President Biden took office, advocates have urged the Biden Administration to redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for countries like Nicaragua, Honduras, Haiti, and Ecuador. However, President Biden has refused to use his executive powers to redesignate TPS and left hundreds of thousands vulnerable to deportation. In the final days of the Biden Administrati  more

Scientists at The Wistar Institute and Stanford University Report Encouraging Results on First-In-Human Clinical Trial for an Investigational Drug to Treat Epstein-Barr Virus Cancer
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 21 (TNSjou) -- The Wistar Institute issued the following news release: In newly reported clinical trial results, The Wistar Institute and Stanford University have successfully tested an investigational drug for the treatment of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-positive nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) in humans. The drug VK-2019 was tested in a first-in-human clinical trial by a research team led by Wistar research associate professor Troy Messick, Ph.D., and Stanford profes  more

UPenn School of Arts & Sciences: Perry World House Student Fellows Explore Global Policy Solutions
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * Through global trips and weekly seminars, the program centers students' interests in global policy to help solve real-world problems, and the students gain one-of-a-kind experience along the way. * * * Perry World House was one of the things that attracted Florence Onyiuke to Penn from high school in Orlando, Florida. Onyiuke has been part of the World  more