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Jefferson: Deeper understanding of disease enables radically new approaches to diagnosis and treatment
Jefferson: Deeper understanding of disease enables radically new approaches to diagnosis and treatment
Share this Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) is a distinctive comprehensive national university setting a new standard for 21st-century professional education. It has 7,800 students, more than 4,000 faculty members and offers approximately 160 undergraduate and graduate programs on multiple campuses. Its unique Nexus Learning model focuses on collaborative inter-professional and transdisciplinary approaches to learning supported by design and systems thinking, innovation, entrepreneurship, empathy, and the modes of thought central to the liberal arts and scientific inquiry. Business challenge What causes some people to develop diseases and not others? The attempt to find an answer is driving groundbreaking research and leading pioneers to challen