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Y-Prize

Ossum Technologies Wins 2022 Y-Prize

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, Uncategorized, Y-Prize Y-Prize

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

2021 Y-Prize winners lead image

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

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

Y-Prize logo

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

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

Y-Prize logo

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

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

Collaborative Energy at the Y-Prize Kick-Off

The Y-Prize Competition asks students to take a fresh approach to the challenge of inventing new applications for Penn research. At last week’s Kick-Off, students from diverse corners of the Penn community gathered in the Singh Center for Nanotechnology.…Read More

September 29, 2014   |   Mack Institute News, Press Coverage, Y-Prize Y-Prize

Y-Prize Competition Kick-Off

The Mack Institute is proud to announce the opening of the third annual Y-Prize competition.…Read More

September 17, 2014   |   Mack Institute News, Y-Prize Y-Prize
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