Webinar Recording: Penn Health-Tech
Katherine Reuther, Ph.D., MBA, Executive Director of the Penn Center for Health-Devices and Technology discusses resources to support your medical device idea.
Penn establishes the Center for Precision Engineering for Health with $100 million commitment
Penn announced that it has made a $100 million commitment in its School of Engineering and Applied Science to establish the Center for Precision Engineering for Health.
Penn engineers will develop on-demand, on-site mRNA manufacturing
With an NSF grant, Penn Engineering researchers are developing a new manufacturing technique that would be able to produce mRNA sequences in a way that removes the need for cryogenic temperatures.
No Dead Ends: New material makes for a promising fuel cell electrolyte
Penn Engineers and their colleagues showed that the proton conductivity of their new fluorine-free polymer increases with water content and exceeds that of Nafion, the current industry standard.
Engineers create faster and cheaper COVID-19 testing with pencil lead
To address cost, time and accuracy, a new electrochemical test developed by Penn researchers uses electrodes made from graphite—the same material found in pencil lead.
Packaging-free design quadruples microbatteries’ energy density
New research has shown a way to build and package microbatteries that maximizes energy density even at the smallest sizes.
Beaker List: Top entrepreneurial life science professors @ Penn
IOS, a life science innovation blog by Alix Ventures, featured the top entrepreneurial life science professors at Penn. The list contained some of the top innovators at Penn, including Drs. Carl June
Latest ‘organ-on-a-chip’ is a new way to study cancer-related muscle wasting
Studying drug effects on human muscles just got easier thanks to a new “muscle-on-a-chip,” developed by a team of researchers from Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and Inha University
Neuralert achieves a key milestone
Neuralert is developing a novel invention that addresses the problem of late or undetected stroke in hospitalized patients.
IQ Motion Control is democratizing advanced servo capabilities
Former I-Corps participant, and current PennovationWorks tenant, IQ Motion Control announced the launch of their newest line of servo motors, the Fortiq BLS42.