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:

• EnaChip Inc.

Partner of the Year Award:

• IP Group

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:

• Daniel J. Powell, Ph.D.

Inventor of the Year Award:

• Yvonne J. Paterson, Ph.D.

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

• Vijay Kumar, PhD , Exyn Technologies

Partner of the Year Award

• Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania

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”