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Stories and articles featuring PCI, our partners, and Penn-affiliated spinout companies
Cogwear and Rezon to make brain enhancing wearable for athletes
Strategic partnership combines the start-ups’ revolutionary technologies for brain injury reduction and cognitive performance
A chewing gum that could reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission
In experiments using saliva samples from COVID-19 patients, the gum, which contains the ACE2 protein, neutralized the virus, according to research led by School of Dental Medicine scientists.
Celebration of Innovation 2021 Recap and Recording
The event honors the patent recipients from the previous fiscal year, as well as, those partners, inventors, and startups that made exceptional achievements.
Penn Center for Innovation reports largest number of annual patents in 2021
The Penn Center for Innovation had the most-ever patents issued for Penn and its affiliates this year, according to the center's 2021 Year in Review.
Developing a chewing gum to reduce the incidence of Covid-19
A chewing gum impregnated with a plant-grown protein can serve as a “trap” for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, reducing viral load in the chewers saliva and potentially tamping down transmission.
A record-breaking year for innovation
With its highest number of patents issued, commercial agreements, corporate-sponsored research funding, and licensing revenue receipts in a single period, PCI experienced a landmark fiscal year.
Choosing the University of Pennsylvania for Its Excellence: As a Student, a Patient, and Employee
Carter Caldwell, the Director of the Penn Medicine Co-Investment Program, wrote a guest blog for Penn Medicine News on how the University has impacted his life as a student, a patient, and an employee
Applications now being accepted for the President’s Innovation Prize
Unique to both Penn and across higher education, the Prize underscores the University’s considerable commitment to encouraging students to put their knowledge to work for the betterment of humankind.
Science to Suits Podcast
The Penn Biotech Healthcare Consulting Group has a podcast called "Science to Suits" focused on healthcare and biotech commercialization.
Ten years of I-Corps: The program that changed innovation
VentureWell looks back at launch of the National I-Corps program 10 years ago, and what the program has meant to inventors, researchers, and startups.