Lewis Katz School of Medicine – Temple Update

Temple Researchers Developing a Safer Alternative to Addictive Painkillers

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:38:02 +0000

For years opioids have been the standard for treating pain, but their continued use has resulted in a growing addiction crisis. However, at Temple University’s Center for Substance Abuse Research, Director Anjali Rajadhyaksha and her team are working on a potential solution. Their research focuses on targeting a specific brain protein to reduce the addictive effects of opioids.

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“Match Day” Excitement at Katz

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:46:41 +0000

The Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University held its annual Match Day for graduating class of 2022 medical students to find out where they’ll spend the next few years at their chosen residency programs. Medical schools all over the country gather for this festive moment as students to find out where they are placed in their residency. Students with their friends…

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Philadelphia on Track for Most Violent Year

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:06:05 +0000

“2021 is on track to be the most violent year we’ve experienced in our lifetimes” said Mayor Jim Kenney at a city-wide briefing on gun violence, the first of many to come. City leaders met last week to discuss the issue of gun violence as the numbers climb higher and higher. Over the weekend, a shooting in Nicetown left five people wounded and one man dead. He was shot 14 times.

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Temple Named Corecipient of $13.5 Million Grant

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 15:07:57 +0000

Temple’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Hunter College of the City University of New York have been named the joint recipients of a $13.5 Million grant from the National Cancer Institute. The five-year grant has been awarded to help create an entity to study cancer health disparities. The grant will help underwrite the creation of the Temple University Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Hunter…

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Medical Students Discover their Match on Match Day

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:25:34 +0000

https://https://youtu.be/brgWCK83UOo As graduation season slowly approaches, many students are left to plan their next steps after college. For many medical students, the next destination was obvious, but whether they would be accepted was unclear until they opened their envelopes on Match Day. Surrounded by their friends and families, four-year Temple medical students gathered with…

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Match Day Brings Joyful Tears to Hundreds

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:30:04 +0000

Match day is the tradition these hopeful physicians have spent the last four years preparing for. Medical students from the east to west coast simultaneously open the envelopes that decides their near future. Two hundred to Temple’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine’s (LKSOM) seniors band together to learn where they’ll go for their residency training. When asked how they’re feeling Chetan Safi…

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Temple Presents: Lewis Katz School of Medicine

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:30:39 +0000

The Temple University Medical School recently changed its name to honor the late Lewis Katz, alumni from ’63, famed business man, and a generous philanthropist. Events were held during homecoming weekend to raise awareness, but the official unveiling of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine took place on Tuesday, October 13. Government officials, Temple alumni and administrative members, students…

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