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Penn Emerging Startup Showcase during Philly Tech Week
As part of Philly Tech Week 2021, the Penn Center for Innovation and PACT featured pitch-length presentations from some of the most innovative startups emerging from Penn.
Passage Bio wins the Life Sciences PA Deal of the Year Award
Life Sciences PA has announced that Passage Bio is the recipient of their 2021 Deal of the Year Award.
Baxter Young Investigator Awards 2021
Applications are now being accepted for the 2021 Baxter Young Investigator Awards (BYIA). The BYIA is an annual program sponsored by Baxter to support and promote innovative research applicable to the
No battery? No problem. At Penn, a mini-electric car draws energy from its surroundings.
The technology, invented in the lab of James Pikul, PhD, at Penn Engineering, also could run a generator during a power outage, with no noise or fumes.
With its flagship light device, Lumify Care improves patient experience from the frontline
Penn Nursing senior Anthony Scarpone-Lambert earned a 2021 President’s Innovation Prize for his company and its first trio of products: uNight Light, the Sleep-First Education Initiative, and the uNig
The Vaccine Trenches
Key breakthroughs leading to the powerful mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 were forged at Penn. That triumph was almost 50 years in the making, longer on obstacles than celebration, and the COVID-19 vac
MedCity Spotlight Video: How PCI is combating Covid-19
As part of MedCity's 2021 INVEST conference, Cesar de la Fuente, presidential assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, explains the value of the rapid low-cost diagnostic test he has dev
Vivodyne pioneers bioengineering tools
A Penn-founded biotech company that helps scientists test drugs and therapeutics has raised $4 million in order to more widely adopt their platform that embraces “organs on chip” technology. Vivodyne'