Spinout Stories: Paradigm Surgical
In our Spinout Stories blog series, PCI features a Penn-affiliated company that leveraged programs like PCI Ventures and I-Corps on their path to commercialization. Paradigm Surgical is one such startup success story. What started as an idea in Dr. John Fischer’s lab to improve abdominal surgery for hernias, is now a five year old medical…
Spring 2020 Penn I-Corps celebrates graduates and launch of a virtual program
The spring 2020 Penn I-Corps training was a success despite the logistical challenges faced by the teams and I-Corps program staff due to COVID-19. The cohort got underway right when the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the Penn campus closing. In previous sessions, each of the I-Corps teams would meet in person over five weeks to…
Nikil Ragav wants to bring high-tech, hands-on learning to all students
“The goal is to provide this type of learning to every school in America regardless of its location or income level of its students, especially in underserved communities.” – Nikil Ragav winner of the Penn President’s Innovation Prize and fall 2019 I-Corps graduate. Read more on Penn Today
More Philly tech graduates are staying here. That’s a good thing.
When it comes to high tech, Philadelphia is no Silicon Valley. We’re not even Boston’s Route 128, bumptiously designated “America’s Technology Region.” But Vijay Kumar, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering, is optimistic about the region’s future as a high-tech center. “I think we are hitting an inflection point in the…
President’s Innovation Prize deadline is January 24, 2020
Created by Penn President Amy Gutmann to strengthen Penn’s commitment under the Penn Compact 2020 to innovation, the President’s Innovation Prize will provide a graduating senior, or team of graduating seniors, $100,000 (plus a $50,000 living stipend per team member) to envision and implement an innovative, commercial venture that makes a positive difference in the…
Three-year-old pumping bra startup Lilu is shipping its first orders
Lilu, a graduate of PCI’s I-Corps program, is starting to ship orders of its flagship product, a hands-free bra with automated massage. Read more. (Technical.ly Philly)
I-Corps Blog: Sonosolve
Sonosolve, one of the teams in the Spring 2016 Penn I-Corps Site Accelerator, has been documenting their experience so far. Week 1: Catheters are used widely in medicine and surgery. Indwelling catheters may become colonized by bacteria through biofilm formation or obstructed with blood clots, proteinaceous debris, or other bodily contents requiring flushing and/or surgical…
I-Corps Blog: CPR Connect
CPR Connect, one of the teams in the Spring 2016 Penn I-Corps Site Accelerator, has been documenting their experience so far. Week 1: CPR Connect, an innovative digital health technology, aims to reduce emergency response times and improve patient outcomes of cardiac arrest victims. Using a novel wearable device, our technology better locates victims of…
I-Corps Blog: TogetherCare
Week 1 Team TogetherCare is committed to providing an improved method for geriatric financial management by protecting against elder financial abuse. Our team currently has three members: Dr. Nalaka Gooneratne (Academic Lead), Akhil Chakravarti (Entrepreneurial Lead), and Shawn Srolovitz. Currently, elder financial fraud accounts for over $1.5 billion in annual losses, with more than half of…
I-Corps Blog: SphereVis, LLC
Week 1 SphereVis LLC is developing a simple, generic, optical super-resolution method of imaging biological and photonic structures that can overcome the spatial resolution limitations of microscopes. The technology SphereVis is developing can provide two- to three-fold enhanced spatial resolution capabilities. The imaging resolution of a standard optical microscope is limited to ~250 nm. Improved…
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