Deal of the Year
This category is for any deal that closed the fiscal year with a licensed Penn technology (ideally also based on a relatively mature or issued Penn patent).
FY23: BioNTech
FY22: Innervace
FY21: Interius Biotherapeutics
FY20: Exyn Technologies
FY19: Linneaus Therapeutics
FY18: Amicus Therapeutics and Jim Wilson, MD, PhD, the Rose H. Weiss Orphan Disease Center Director’s Professor
FY17: Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, the Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research in Infectious Diseases
FY16: Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, the F.M. Kirby Professor of Ophthalmology, and Jim Wilson, MD, PhD, the Rose H. Weiss Orphan Disease Center Director’s Professor
Startup of the Year
This category is intended to highlight a notable and successful start-up that is based on technology licensed from Penn.
FY23: Carisma Therapeutics
FY22: Capstan Therapeutics
FY21: Vetigenics
FY20: Cabaletta Bio
FY19: Verix Health
FY18: Tmunity
FY17: EnaChip Inc.
FY16: Exyn Technologies
Paul D. Sehnert Partner of the Year
This category is intended to recognize an external partner who has supported our commercialization efforts in a significant manner.
FY23: McCooe & Associates
FY22: Osage University Partners
FY21: Institute of Life Changing Medicines
FY20: Pennovation Works
FY19: Kairos Ventures
FY18: JPOD @ Philadelphia
FY17: IP Group
FY16: Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Emerging Inventor of the Year
This category is for any rising star Inventor at Penn with their first or second issued patent or deal involving Penn IP during the fiscal year.
FY23: Firooz Alfatouni, PhD, Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering
FY22: Ping Wang, PhD, DABCC, FAACC, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
FY21: Michael Mitchell, PhD, Associate Professor, Bioengineering
FY20: Hyun (Michel) Koo, DDS, MS, PhD, Co-Founding Director, Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry and Professor, Department of Orthodontics
FY19: Susan Volk, PhD, VMD, BA, Corinne R. and Henry Bower Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine
FY18: Boon Thau Loo, PhD, RCA Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science
FY17: Daniel J. Powell, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Inventor(s) of the Year
This category is for an Inventor with significant deal activity and/or patents that have issued in the last fiscal year.
FY23: Shu Yang, PhD, Joseph Bordogna Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
FY22: Dan Huh, PhD, Professor, Bioengineering
FY21: Nobel Prize Winners Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, the Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research in Infectious Diseases, and Katalin Karikó, PhD, adjunct professor of Neurosurgery
FY20: Saar Gill, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine
FY19: William Beltran, DVM, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, and Gus Aguirre, VMD, PhD, Professor of Medical Genetics and Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
FY18: Amos Smith, PhD, Rhodes-Thompson Professor of Chemistry
FY17: Yvonne J. Paterson, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology
FY16: John D. Lambris, PhD, Dr. Ralph and Sallie Weaver Professor of Research Medicine
Biomedical Device of the Year
FY16: Joseph Gorman, MD, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Robert Gorman, MD, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, and Matthew Gillespie, MD, attending cardiologist In the Cardiac Center and the Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
FY17: Haim Bau, PhD, Richard H. & S. L. Gabel Professor of Mechanical Engineering
FY19: Mark Yim, PhD, in recognition of his revolutionary steerable needle technology