Philly Startup Leaders has a unique opportunity to send three companies – led by founders from underrepresented backgrounds – to SXSW this year. This is all part of Amplify Philly, bringing the best of Philly business, culture, and tech into the international spotlight. Philly Startup Leaders’ plays an active role in producing Amplify Philly, with…

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Whether in Philadelphia, or across the country, stakeholders are eager to attend PCI events that showcase Penn’s latest faculty innovators and cutting-edge startups.  This year’s Innovation @ Penn event in San Francisco was no exception. Almost 200 investors, corporate partners, alumni and supporters converged on Wharton San Francisco’s office at the base of the Bay…

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The University City Science Center has announced three awardees in the latest round of its QED Proof-of-Concept Program which partners with regional academic and research institutions to prepare their most promising life science technologies for commercialization. One of the awardees is from the Penn School of Engineering and Applied Sciences The awardees will each receive…

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PCI’s Celebration of Innovation and Annual Report were featured in the Penn Almanac, the official weekly journal for the Penn community. The two articles honored the awardees from the Celebration of Innovation and featured the key statistics and programs from last fiscal year. Read about the Awardees Read about PCI programs and statistics

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Bruce L. Levine, PhD, Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy at the Perelman School of Medicine, wrote a guest article for Wired UK titled, “Our own cells could be the secret weapon in the fight against cancer”. Read this article online.

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Philadelphia is a proud city of firsts, and now we can lay claim to the first drone-assisted beer. Dock Street Brewery, one of the country’s first post-Prohibition craft microbreweries, has partnered with Point Breeze neighbor Exyn Technologies (and Penn spinout) on the Dock Street Swarm Intelligence Pale Ale. Read More on the Philadelphia Voice  

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Verix Health is developing a suite of steerable surgical needles to enable minimally invasive treatment of hard-to-reach cancer tumors. Read More (On Philadelphia Magazine online)

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Engineering student Evan Weinstein fixated on the idea of liberating bespoke chocolates from the confines of both the bar and the mold. Rather than cast a chocolate shape, why not build it? Cocoa Press is his solution. Read more on Penn Today

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Roderick Wong, M’03, came to the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) with a vision for a broader type of education and impact than the traditional physician route. This year, he made headlines when he gave a $6 million gift to endow the Roderick T. Wong PennHealthX Program, one of the largest single gifts to support medical…

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The company said it plans to use the round to add employees in its sales, marketing and data science departments, and to further develop its mental health platform. Read more on Technical.ly Philly

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