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…
Celebrating Penn Innovators, Inventors, and Partners
On Tuesday, December 3 at the beautiful Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts in the Van Pelt Library, more than 150 Penn inventors and partners came together to celebrate Penn’s innovation achievements during fiscal year 2019. The fourth annual Celebration of Innovation highlighted the best of the University’s innovators from medical devices…
Nominate for the Life Sciences PA Annual Awards
Each of the awards presented at the Life Sciences PA Annual Dinner recognizes a contribution that helped shape the life sciences industry into what it is today. This is your chance to tell us who you believe should be honored at this year’s Annual Dinner. Emerging Company of the Year Life Sciences Pennsylvania’s Emerging…
Technology of the Month: Topical Treatment for Autoimmune Disorders
When you have an autoimmune disorder, it can feel like you’re not safe in your own body. Your own immune system attacks healthy tissues causing chronic pain, mobility issues, and other debilitating symptoms. Common drugs to alleviate (not cure) your condition can often cause their own set of issues, which are both painful and costly….
Positive results in first-in-U.S. trial of CRISPR-edited immune cells
Genetically editing a cancer patient’s immune cells using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, then infusing those cells back into the patient appears safe and feasible based on early data from the first-ever clinical trial to test the approach in humans in the United States. Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center have infused three participants in the trial thus far—two…
JPOD @ Philadelphia, 365 days later
One year after the launch of the partnership between Penn and Johnson & Johnson Innovation, the Pennovation Center celebrated the early successes of this innovative program. Read more. (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…
Reuters ranks Penn as the world’s 4th most innovative university for the 3rd consecutive year
The University of Pennsylvania continues to be one of the best universities in the world for innovators, patents, research, and entrepreneurs. According to Reuters: “Researchers at Penn’s department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics have developed a way to “heal” metal at room temperature. The process is modeled after the way bones repair themselves, and…
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…
Gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy safely preserves muscle function
A Penn study shows delivering a ‘distant cousin’ of a key protein prevented muscle damage without triggering an immune response in large animal models. Read more. (On Penn Today)
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