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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.
Philadelphia ranks as the 6th best life sciences market in the US
In CBRE’s 2023 Life Sciences Research Talent report, Philadelphia ranked sixth among the top 25 US life sciences markets, two spots above its number eight ranking from last year.
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.
Philadelphia retains top 30 ranking on list of global startup ecosystems in 2023
In 2022, Startup Genome's Global Startup Ecosystem Report ranked Philadelphia as the 27th-best startup ecosystem in the world and number eleven within the U.S.
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.
Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry Presents Second Annual Symposium
The symposium featured presentations and research posters by CiPD faculty and trainees in the Center’s NIDCR T90/R90 Postdoctoral Training Program as well as invited speakers.
PCI Attends Tech Connect World Innovation Conference 2023
From June 19-20, PCI attended 2023 Tech Connect World Innovation Conference and Expo, an annual event that brings together the creators of breakthrough technologies with corporations.
PCI Attends 2023 BIO International Convention
Qishui (Tracy) Chen, Assistant Director of Licensing, Physical Sciences, and Engineering shared and discussed a wide range of available drug delivery technologies come out of Penn.
Penn Engineering’s Nader Engheta Receives the Benjamin Franklin Medal for his work on metamaterials
Engheta was granted this prestigious award, which is one of the world’s oldest science and technology awards, for his transformative innovations in engineering novel metamaterials.