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Innovation at ‘Cellicon Valley’
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Innovation at ‘Cellicon Valley’

Key facts and figures about ongoing efforts towards translating discoveries and ideas into products and businesses at the Penn Center for Innovation.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Strella Biotechnology tackles food waste by ‘hacking the fruit’
strella biotech team members working in the lab

Strella Biotechnology tackles food waste by ‘hacking the fruit’

President’s Innovation Prize awardees Katherine Sizov and Malika Shukurova are expanding their startup and confronting $1 trillion of food waste with their novel biosensing technology.

Erica K. Brockmeier

University of Pennsylvania receives $25 million gift to create data science building
President Amy Gutmann, alum Harlan M. Stone, and Penn Engineering Nemirovsky Family Dean Vijay Kumar (left to right) at the gift agreement signing to support the construction of a new Data Science Building. Photo by Eric Sucar, University Communications.

University of Pennsylvania receives $25 million gift to create data science building

The largest gift in Penn Engineering’s history—a $25 million commitment from alumnus Harlan M. Stone to support the construction of a new Data Science Building—will serve as a hub for cross-disciplinary collaborations that harness expertise, research, and data across Penn’s 12 schools and numerous academic centers.
Working hand in hand with the nation’s largest integrated care system
A black-and-white image of health care professionals standing around a patient in a surgical suite during the Vietnam War.

Mary Ann Krisman Scott (back, facing forward) was a nurse during the Vietnam War. She is also a 2001 Ph.D. graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. (Image: Courtesy Bates Center Archives, University of Pennsylvania) 

Working hand in hand with the nation’s largest integrated care system

In a unique partnership, Penn Nursing collaborates with the Veterans Health Administration on a range of issues, from pain management to end-of-life care.

Michele W. Berger

To monitor cancer therapy, researchers tag CAR T cells with imaging markers
rendering of a t cell

To monitor cancer therapy, researchers tag CAR T cells with imaging markers

With CAR T cell therapy, a patient’s own immune cells are genetically modified and inserted back into the body to find and kill cancer. Now scientists have now discovered a new way to track CAR T cells in the body.

Penn Today Staff

JPOD @ Philadelphia, 365 days later
four people sitting on two couches holding microphones, one person is speaking to an audience out of view, they are next to a large screen dotted with company logos and infront of a large banner that reads Johnson and Johnson Innovation JLABS, JPOD at Philadelphia

JPOD @ Philadelphia, 365 days later

One year after the launch of the partnership between Penn and Johnson & Johnson Innovation, the Pennovation Center celebrated the early successes of this innovative program.

Erica K. Brockmeier

New chip poised to enable handheld microwave imaging
Two versions of the letter P from the Penn logo, an example of the new microwave imaging chip's ability.

The researchers showed that the new microwave imager chip could form images of simple objects such as this metallic Penn logo. Unlike light, microwaves can travel through certain opaque objects, making microwave imagers potentially useful in a wide variety of applications. (Image: Farshid Ashtiani)

New chip poised to enable handheld microwave imaging

Penn researchers show that the new microwave imager chip could form images of simple objects. Unlike light, microwaves can travel through certain opaque objects, making microwave imagers potentially useful in a wide variety of applications.

Penn Today Staff