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Y-Prize

Y-Prize Competition Kicks Off for 2024-25 Academic Year

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The Y-Prize Competition kicked off this week with a well-attended event held in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall. Now in its thirteenth year, the Y-Prize challenges students to hone their entrepreneurial skills by creating business plans using cutting-edge technology developed at Penn Engineering. The team that comes up with the most promising commercial…Read More

September 27, 2024   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Y-Prize

Y-Prize Competition Kicks Off for 2023-24 Academic Year

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The semester is underway — and so is this year’s Y-Prize competition! For twelve years, the Y-Prize competition has challenged students to build their entrepreneurial skills. Students team up to create business plans using technology invented at Penn Engineering. The team with the best commercial application wins $10,000 to help…Read More

October 2, 2023   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Y-Prize

Equimeter Wins 2023 Y-Prize

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Congratulations to Equimeter, winners of this year’s $10,000 Y-Prize! The team of undergrads proposed a commercial application for Penn’s physics-informed neural network that improves pulse oximetry in patients with darker skin. A pulse oximeter is a small device that clips to your finger and measures blood oxygen level. They became…Read More

February 7, 2023   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize commercialization, Equimeter, Y-Prize

Ossum Technologies Wins 2022 Y-Prize

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Congratulations to Ossum Technologies, winners of this year’s $10,000 Y-Prize competition! The team of undergrads proposed a commercial application for Penn’s steerable needle technology that would improve the safety of cerclage wire use in orthopedic fracture fixation.…Read More

March 22, 2022   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize commercialization, Y-Prize

Solution for Removing Alcohol From Beer While Preserving Flavor Wins 2021 Y-Prize

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LiberTech proposes that brewers use a Penn technology to cost-effectively filter out ethanol and still preserve quality and taste.…Read More

April 30, 2021   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize emerging technology, entrepreneurship, Penn Center for Innovation, Penn Engineering, Y-Prize

Y-Prize Winner Avisi Technologies Receives $1M Grant

Avisi Technologies

The company, cofounded by Wharton alumni, will use the National Science Foundation award to continue pursuing its innovative glaucoma treatment.…Read More

October 15, 2020   |   Events, Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Avisi Technologies, healthcare industry, Y-Prize

Bright Idea: An Eco-Friendly, Affordable Lighting Solution Wins the 2020 Y-Prize

Y-Prize 2020 Winning Team

Four student teams wowed the judges at the 2020 Y-Prize Competition and took home prize money to invest in their ideas about how to repair and harvest energy from metal.…Read More

February 19, 2020   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize commercialization, emerging technology, green technology, Y-Prize

2019 Y-Prize Finalists Pitch Ideas to Heal Metal, Harvest Energy in Remote Locales

2019 Y-Prize finalists

The four finalist teams will pitch their ideas live to a panel of judges for the $10,000 grand prize in the Y-Prize Grand Finale on February 3, 2020…Read More

December 9, 2019   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Y-Prize

Y-Prize Winners Avisi Technologies Land $225K Federal Grant for Glaucoma Treatment

Avisi Technologies

The winners of Penn’s 5th annual Y-Prize Competition, Avisi Technologies, have secured a $225,000 National Science Foundation grant to continue developing their eye implant VisiPlate.…Read More

August 16, 2019   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Avisi Technologies, Y-Prize

2019 Y-Prize Winners: Penn Students Make Plans for Bacteria-Fighting Tech

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Tanvi Kapur, Ishir Seth, and WenTao Zhang discuss their plan to prevent catheter-associated infections in hospital patients.…Read More

March 28, 2019   |   host: Harbir Singh, Mack Institute News, Mastering Innovation, Podcasts entrepreneurship, healthcare industry, Y-Prize

2019 Y-Prize Winners’ Goal: Reduce Deaths from Hospital-Acquired Infections

2019 Y-Prize Winners

The 2019 Y-Prize winners introduced a plan create a new, improved catheter designed to stop costly  and deadly infections at the source.…Read More

January 29, 2019   |   Events, Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Y-Prize

2018-2019 Y-Prize Finalists Take One Technology in Four Different Directions

Y-Prize Finalists

The finalists in Penn’s seventh annual Y-Prize Competition have collectively proposed one of the most diverse slates of applications in recent memory, spanning infection prevention, saltwater desalination, green energy, and tissue engineering.…Read More

November 21, 2018   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize nanotechnology, Y-Prize

2017 Y-Prize Champions Win Penn President’s Innovation Prize

Avisi Team

The team will receive $250K to help them bring their revolutionary glaucoma treatment to market.…Read More

April 28, 2018   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Avisi Technologies, Y-Prize

2018 Y-Prize Winners Reveal Their Secrets to Successful Teamwork

2018 Y-Prize Winners Cellview Sciences

Michael Lee and Henry Zhou of Cellview Sciences share how they balanced their team’s expertise in business and science to win Penn’s 2018 Y-Prize Competition.…Read More

February 15, 2018   |   host: Nicolaj Siggelkow, host: Saikat Chaudhuri, Mack Institute News, Mastering Innovation, Podcasts, Wharton grad, Y-Prize Y-Prize

6th Annual Y-Prize Competition Now Open

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Since 2012, the Mack Institute has helped host the Y-Prize Competition, a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best commercial applications for an emerging technology.…Read More

September 5, 2017   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize nanotechnology, Y-Prize

2017 Y-Prize Winner VisiPlate Offers Innovative Glaucoma Solution

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Penn’s 2017 Y-Prize winner proposed using ultrathin aluminum oxide implants to release eye pressure that leads to irreversible optic nerve damage.…Read More

January 25, 2017   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Avisi Technologies, healthcare industry, Y-Prize

Introducing the 2016-2017 Y-Prize Finalists

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The finalists in this year’s Y-Prize Competition have proposed ideas that would improve greenhouses, expedite heat removal in electronics, block sun from cars windows, and even defend against glaucoma.…Read More

December 1, 2016   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Avisi Technologies, nanotechnology, Y-Prize

Y-Prize Competitors Making News

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Recent Y-Prize winners and finalists have used the competition as a launching pad to pursue even bigger and better opportunities.…Read More

April 30, 2015   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Y-Prize

Announcing the 2014-2015 Y-Prize Winners

Y-Prize Winners

The Mack Institute is thrilled to announce the winners in our third annual Y-Prize Competition.…Read More

January 29, 2015   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Y-Prize

Introducing the 2014-2015 Y-Prize Finalists

Y-Prize Competition

The Y-Prize is a competition in which student teams propose innovative commercial applications for technology invented by University of Pennsylvania researchers.We are thrilled to introduce the finalists in the 2014-2015 Competition.…Read More

December 1, 2014   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Y-Prize

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