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2025–2026 Winner

CarboWells

A 3D-printed concrete well plug that captures carbon and is designed to reduce failure rates in abandoned oil and gas wells.

Team: Yash Iyer (Wharton ’29), Ronith Lahoti (VIPER ’29), Bhuranyu Mahajan (Wharton ’29), Yuki Qian (VIPER ’29), and Ali Altan Yilmaz (VIPER ’29)

Runner up team Serpent Robotics has won Penn’s President Prize and launched as an independent venture.

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Over a decade of student ventures built on Penn’s breakthrough research.

2024–2025

Stentix

A magnetic, foldable, fully-covered stent that corrects migration noninvasively for patients with malignant biliary obstruction.

Summer Cobb (SEAS), Amanda Kossoff (Wharton), Elizabeth Jia (Wharton), Aarsha Shah (Wharton)

2023–2024

LilyLoop

Smart, safe periods using biodegradable sensor tampons, wearable jewelry, and an app for timely tampon change reminders.

Kylie Chang (Wharton), Rima Chavali (Vagelos LSM), Neha Chelamkuri (Vagelos LSM)

2022–2023

Equimeter

Uses Beer-Lambert’s Law as a physical constraint for pulse oximeters to better address racial discrepancies in oxygen measurement.

Ujjayi Pamidigantam (Vagelos LSM), Parthiv Patel (Vagelos LSM), Advait Thaploo (Vagelos LSM)

2021–2022

Ossum Technologies

Removes obstacles to safe cerclage use in orthopedic fracture fixation using Penn’s steerable needle technology.

Ananya Dewan (Vagelos LSM), Hoang Le (Vagelos LSM), Shiva Teerdhala (Vagelos LSM), Karan Shah (SEAS), Savan Patel (M&T)

2020–2021

LiberTech

Filters alcohol from beer using a nanostructured membrane that preserves the flavor of beer.

Shangting Sun, Sharon Ying Man Chan, Zhouzheyuan Lu, Hechun Cai

2019–2020

Metal Harvesting Lights

Leverages Penn’s Metal-Air Scavenger IP to create affordable lighting for homes in off-grid communities worldwide.

Leo Li, Yumin Gao, Mohammed Dhanjy, Ryan Goethals, Kateryna Kharenko, Darshan Bhosale

2018–2019

Nosoco Technologies

Reinvents the catheter by incorporating micro-structured wrinkled instabilities to physically disrupt biofilm formation and prevent catheter-associated infections.

Ishir Seth (Vagelos LSM), Tanvi Kapur (Wharton), Beatriz Go (Wharton), WenTao Zhang (Vagelos LSM)

2017–2018

Cellview Sciences

Chromosense screens early-stage embryos for chromosomal abnormalities during IVF using carbon nanopipettes — faster, safer, and more accurate than existing solutions.

Michael Lee (Wharton), Ellen Naruse (Wharton), Henry Zhou (SAS)

2016–2017

VisiPlate

An ultrathin nanoplate implant that reduces intraocular pressure to prevent open-angle glaucoma-induced blindness.

Adarsh Battu (Wharton), Brandon Kao (SEAS), Rui Jing Jiang (Wharton)

Now Avisi, a health tech startup with millions in funding.

Fermento

2015–2016

Fermento

Applies Penn’s droplet-maker technology to speed up beer fermentation by up to 9x using microfluidic-based production while maintaining quality at industrial scale.

Alexander David, Shashwata Narain, Siddharth Shah

Now Fermentec.