Vytrina, a startup co-founded by Penn Engineering faculty Shu Yang, PhD, the Joseph Bordogna Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering and Alexander Tucker, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, won the Penn Health Tech 2024 pitch competition. Vytrina has created a strong and reversible wound dressing film for use in conjunction with head surgery. Learn more about the technology here.
PCI also awarded Shu Yang with its FY2023 Inventor of the Year Award for her innovative engineering solutions spanning agriculture, building cooling and heating, and reversible adhesives. In addition, as part of a $2.2M multi-university U.S. Department of Energy project, Dr. Yang is using kirigami, the Asian art of cutting and folding materials, to redesign water collectors to be used in wood desiccation, a process required before wood can be burned to generate heat and power. Read more here.