Annually, PCI honors faculty who received a patent in the previous fiscal year by presenting them with a personalized patent cube. We also present special awards highlighting inventors, patents, deals, startups, and partners.
Winners of FY2017 Celebration of Innovation (held in Feb. 2018):
Deal of the Year Award:
- Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D. – 2017 License Restructuring Between Penn and mRNA Ribotherapeutics and Sublicenses to BioNTech and Another Large Biotechnology Company
Startup of the Year Award:
Partner of the Year Award:
Biomedical Device of the Year Award:
- Haim H. Bau, Ph.D. Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Reactor with Integrated Solid State Membrane (US 9,476,102)
Emerging Inventor of the Year Award:
Inventor of the Year Award:
Winners of FY2016 Celebration of Innovation (held in May. 2017):
Deal of the Year Award
- Jean Bennett, MD, PhD and James M. Wilson, MD, PhD – 2016 Penn-Biogen R&D Alliance
Startup of the Year Award
Partner of the Year Award
Biomedical Device of the Year Award
- Joseph Gorman, MD, Robert Gorman, MD, and Matthew Gillespie, MD– US Patent 9,289,291 “Valve Prosthesis”
Inventor of the Year Award
- John D. Lambris, PhD – US Patent 9,371,365 “Modified Compstatin With Peptide Backbone and C-Terminal Modifications”