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Stories and articles featuring PCI, our partners, and Penn-affiliated spinout companies
Cogwear is featured on the cover of the Journal of Precision Medicine
The Journal of Precision Medicine highlighted Penn spinout Cogwear’s novel technology for behavioral health applications.
Moderna forms oncology collaboration with Carisma Therapeutics
Moderna will collaborate with Penn spinout Carisma Therapeutics to discover, develop and commercialize in-vivo engineered chimeric antigen receptor monocyte therapeutics for the treatment of cancer.
From foundational discoveries to profound impact
Without the mRNA technology foundation laid by Karikó and Weissman, the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines being deployed across the world would not exist.
Technology used in mRNA COVID vaccines offers hope for treatment of millions with heart disease, study suggests
Combining technologies that proved hugely success against cancer and in COVID-19 vaccines, researchers at Penn have shown they can effectively treat a leading cause of heart disease.
ŌNŌCOR launches ŌNŌ system
PCI startup ŌNŌCOR announced the first-in-human use of their ŌNŌ endovascular retrieval system for the removal of an intracardiac tumor.
Neuralert’s first product receives FDA Breakthrough Designation
Neuralert addresses the problem of late or undetected stroke in hospitalized patients.
Vaccine-like mRNA injection can be used to make CAR T cells in the body
The researchers, whose work is published in Science, demonstrated the new approach with an mRNA preparation that reprograms T cells—a powerful type of immune cell—to attack heart fibroblast cells.
Lessons in resilience: What changes did you make during the pandemic that you’ll keep with you?
These leaders made changes to workplace communication, collaboration and their personal lives.
Faculty Innovators are Celebrated
The 6th annual Celebration of Innovation returned in a hybrid format for 2021 with both attendees and award recipients participating in person and virtually.
Katalin Karikó, PhD, featured on the cover of Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Disruptors
She was described as being one of the 50 visionaries whose career-long actions have had far-reaching impact.