During the 2018 Fiscal Year, PCI traveled to four different locations throughout the United States to share Penn technologies and companies with a broader audience.   South By Southwest (SXSW)   PCI led Penn’s presence at the SXSW Interactive Conference in March 2018 highlighting the technology, startups, and facilities that support innovation and entrepreneurship at…

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June 2018 news stories about innovation at Penn. Some highlights: June 7 – Ophthotech Corp (OPHT) Announces Gene Therapy Agreements with University of Florida and Penn (Street Insider) June 7 – Ophthotech’s Share Price Increases on New Collaboration (Genetics Investing News) June 24 – Flying robots, hot glass, Google, 3-D flesh, NextFab: Philly’s first Maker…

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May 2018 news stories about innovation at Penn. Some highlights: May 1 – How to sustain momentum in the fight against cancer (Technically Philly) May 1 – A cancer treatment that one expert called the ‘most exciting thing I’ve seen in my lifetime’ just got approved to treat more patients (Business Insider) May 1 –…

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From April 27 to May 5, Philadelphia celebrated the 8th annual  Philly Tech Week. As a sponsor, Penn participated in many events, including hosting the “Grow” track at the new Introduced by Technically conference on May 3, and bringing together several departments and organizations for a trade show table at the Signature Event on Friday…

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We are proud to recognize the following inventors who have been issued patents in the last quarter. Congratulations! US Patents (23) Country Principal Investigator Patent # Patent Title Issue Date United States Axelsen 9,855,357 Rapid Surface Disinfection Method and Apparatus  1/2/2018 United States Bennett 9,896,665 Proviral Plasmids for Production of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus  2/20/2018 United…

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  Dr. Carl June gets emotional when he remembers that moment — a historic one in science, by most accounts — when the first patient to receive experimental CAR T-cell treatment against advanced blood cancer, developed by his team, came back from the brink of death. Read More 

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April 2018 news stories about innovation at Penn. Some highlights: April 5 – Penn announces the recipients of the 2018 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes (Daily Pennsylvanian) April 5 – Cracking the cancer code: Can immune therapy treat tumors? (Philly.com) April 16 – Taking Penn Engineering Technology to Market (Penn Engineering on Medium.com) April 17…

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Learn about ground-breaking research from Dr. Kacy Cullen and his team

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March 2018 news stories about innovation at Penn. Some highlights: March 8 – Celebrating Penn’s innovators (Penn Today) March 12 – SXSW Day 1: Philadelphia Doesn’t Want to Be the Silicon Valley of Anything (Philly Mag) March 14 – SXSW Day 2: How Philly Stands Out at the Trade Show (Philly Mag) March 19 –…

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February 2018 news stories about innovation at Penn. Some highlights: Feb 7 – At SXSW, a two-story ‘house’ hopes to #AmplifyPhilly (Technically Philly) Feb 20 – 12 Networking Tips for Philadelphians Who Hate Networking (PBJ) Feb 21 – Penn & Novartis: On the front line of the war on cancer (Philadelphia Business Journal) Feb 26…

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