Nine Philly companies on the cutting edge of cell and gene therapy innovation

Posted on May 11, 2020 — Jessica Jones Gupta

The list from Philadelphia Magazine includes five Penn spinouts: Cabaletta Bio, Carisma Therapeutics, Passage Bio, Spark Therapeutics and Tmunity Therapeutics. Read the full article

Headway, a communication device for minimally invasive surgery, wins 2020 Pennvention Grand Prize

Posted on — Jessica Jones Gupta

Now in its fifteenth year, Pennvention prides itself on being the sole Penn entrepreneurship competition with a primary focus on technological innovation. Over the course of the competition, entrants pitch an idea, develop a product, receive help from mentors and enter to win over $20,000 in prizes. This year’s winner was Headway, a wearable device for…

Nikil Ragav wants to bring high-tech, hands-on learning to all students

Posted on May 8, 2020 — Jessica Jones Gupta

“The goal is to provide this type of learning to every school in America regardless of its location or income level of its students, especially in underserved communities.” – Nikil Ragav winner of the Penn President’s Innovation Prize and fall 2019 I-Corps graduate.   Read more on Penn Today

Exciting expansion of Penn startup Passage Bio with Penn’s Gene Therapy Program led by Dr. Jim Wilson

Posted on May 7, 2020 — Jessica Jones Gupta

Passage Bio emerged early last year with a sizable war chest, five gene therapy programs from the University of Pennsylvania and the option to license seven more. Now, the company is doubling down on that partnership, promising the university $5 million a year in exchange for access to more programs and new technologies that come out of…

USPTO launches platform to facilitate connections between patent holders and potential licensees in key technologies

Posted on May 6, 2020 — Jessica Jones Gupta

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) unveiled a new web-based intellectual property (IP) marketplace platform, Patents 4 Partnerships, to provide the public with a user-friendly, searchable repository of patents and published patent applications related to the COVID-19 pandemic that are indicated as available for licensing. The new platform will facilitate the voluntary licensing…

Coming together to solve the many scientific mysteries of COVID-19

Posted on — Jessica Jones Gupta

Putting some of their regular research projects on the back burner, researchers around Penn are digging into unknowns about the novel coronavirus from their deep and varied perspectives. To dig into what scientists around campus are asking and learning, Penn Today spoke with several who have pivoted their research to focus on COVID-19. Their work,…

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