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 their eye implant VisiPlate.…Read More
Tanvi Kapur, Ishir Seth, and WenTao Zhang discuss their plan to prevent catheter-associated infections in hospital patients.…Read More
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
This event is the culmination of Penn’s 7th Annual Y-Prize Competition. Come see the four finalist teams battle it out for $10,000 to use towards commercializing their application for the featured Penn technologies. Each team will make a 10-minute pitch to a panel of leading industry figures and venture capitalists.
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
This event will provide tips and guidance for creating your Y-Prize submission from Prof. Jeffrey Babin. Also hear from our head judge, Dean Miller. Food will be included.
The Y-Prize is a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best applications for an existing technology. Join us as our tech consultants explain the competition’s featured technology in detail! Networking reception to follow.
The team will receive $250K to help them bring their revolutionary glaucoma treatment to market.…Read More
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
This event will provide tips and guidance for creating your Y-Prize submission from Prof. Jeffrey Babin. Also hear from our head judge, Dean Miller. Food will be included. Register at the Y-Prize website.
The Y-Prize is a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best applications for an existing technology. This year’s competition centers around Novel Materials and technologies from the labs of Rob Carpick and Haim Bau. Join us as our tech consultants explain the competition’s featured
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
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
This event is the culmination of Penn’s 5th Annual Y-Prize Competition. Come see the four finalist teams battle it out for $10,000 to use towards commercializing their application for cutting-edge Penn technology. Each team will make a 10-minute pitch to a panel of leading industry figures and venture capitalists. A
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
This event will provide tips and guidance for creating your Y-Prize submission from Prof. Jeffrey Babin. Also, hear from a member of the Penn Center for Innovation about the potential for licensing opportunities, and from our head judge, Dean Miller. Please RSVP here:
The Y-Prize is a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best applications for an existing technology. This year’s competition centers around Novel Materials and technologies from the labs of Shu Yang and Igor Bargatin. Join us as our tech consultants explain the competition’s featured technology in detail!
The Y-Prize is a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best applications for an existing technology. This year’s competition centers around Novel Materials and technologies from the labs of Shu Yang and Igor Bargatin. Join us as we kick off our 2016-2017 competition!
This event is the culmination of the 4th iteration of the Y-Prize competition in which student teams propose innovative commercial applications for technology invented by Penn researchers. The focal technology this year was biomedical engineering developed by professors David Issadore, Jim Gee, Paul Yushkevich, Brian Avants, Brian Litt and Zack
This event will provide tips and guidance for creating your Y-Prize submission. Also, hear from a member of the Penn Center for Innovation about the non-exclusive license that will be up for grabs as part of the prize for this year’s competition!
