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Stories and articles featuring PCI, our partners, and Penn-affiliated spinout companies
Penn Startup Profile: Baleena’s Continued Emergence and Growth
Baleena is focused on developing a consumer product that attaches to the inside of a washing machine drum to filter out microfibers.
Three Penn Startups Recognized on Technical.ly Philadelphia’s 2024 RealLIST Startups list
This year, Penn spinouts BlueWhale Bio and Baleena, ranked number one and two on the RealLIST respectively.
Philly Nonprofit Awarded $48 Million to Apply AI in Search for New Uses for Approved Drugs
AI based on specific algorithms will scan tens of thousands of approved medications and rare diseases to find potential matches.
Penn Leaders Featured in the Philadelphia Business Journal’s Power 100 List
PCI congratulates these Penn leaders for their inclusion in the Philadelphia Business Journal's list of "100 business leaders set to shape Philadelphia in 2024."
Penn Appoints its First Chief Innovation Officer
In an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer, Swartley explains how in his new role he is hoping to develop a more complete understanding of the broader “definition of what innovation is at Penn."
Scout Bio Acquired by Leading Animal Health Company
French company Ceva Santé Animale announced that it is acquiring Scout Bio.
The Penn Center for Innovation announces two key appointments to expand and enhance institution-wide innovation and technology commercialization activities
The Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) has announced two key appointments to support the next phase of its comprehensive innovation and commercialization plan.
AInSights Uses AI for Real-time Image Analysis
Penn Medicine's AInSights is a cloud-based machine learning platform accessible by clinicians for real-time image analysis supporting multiple machine learning algorithms.
Y-Prize Goes to LilyLoop, a feminine product that captures menstrual flow data for improved diagnostics
LilyLoop, which proposed a commercial application for Penn’s biodegradeable moisture sensors, is the winner of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management’s 2024 Y-Prize Competition.
PCIV Company OmnicPath AI Published in Nature BioTechnology
OmnicPath AI specializes in developing an end-to-end workflow that integrates Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) data and high-resolution histology images to predict spatial gene expression.