Katalin Karikó Recognized in “Faces of American Innovation” Report Celebrating People Behind Life-Changing Inventions Fostered by the Bayh-Dole Act
Katalin Karikó, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery, was profiled in “Faces of American Innovation,” a report fostered by the Bayh-Dole Act that celebrates the people behind life-changing invention
Good Morning America features story of Emily Whitehead, the first pediatric patient to receive CAR T cell therapy
After receiving CAR T-cell treatment for leukemia in 2012, Emily is now 11 years cancer free, and is heading off to college this fall.
Quantum Technology Innovation at Penn Engineering Receives Major Boost through Multi-Year Collaboration with Quantum Motion Technologies
Quantum Motion Technologies Ltd., a privately held company in London, UK, entered into an R&D collaboration agreement with Penn.
Penn Engineering Inventors Develop Metastructures for Solving Equations with Waves
U.S. Patent No. 11, 494,461 “Metastructures for solving equations with waves” was awarded and issued on Nov. 8, 2022.
Advisory Board for IoT4Ag Precision Agriculture Research Center Led by Penn Engineering Gains New Industrial Members
oT4Ag, the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for precision agriculture led by Penn Engineering, has successfully recruited a diverse group of 19 industry leaders and innovative start-ups.
Penn Engineering and AlphaThera Expand License Agreement
AlphaThera, a startup company co-founded by Andrew Tsourkas, PhD, entered into an expanded license agreement with Penn.
Verismo Therapeutics raises funding and expands partnership with Penn Medicine
Penn spinout company Verismo Therapeutics has successfully raised $7 million in a pre-Series A round led by BRV Capital Management.
6 Million NIH Grant Funds New Penn Medicine Research on Cardiac Cell Development
The Penn research team, led by principal investigator Dr. Rajan Jain aims to study how cardiac cells establish and maintain their identity over a lifetime.
Penn Venture Lab receives $10 million gift for health care entrepreneurship
The goal of the gift, donated by Wharton alum Marc Wolpow, is to create an incubator and accelerator for student ventures in health care.
Mitchell Lab develops RNA nanoparticle therapy to stop the spread of incurable bone marrow cancer
This new form of treatment turns off a cancer-attracting function in human blood vessels, which disables the pathways through which the cancer cells travel.