The Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) celebrated patent awardees for FY2016 at the PCI Celebration of Innovation. The following awards were presented:

• 2016-2017 Biomedical Device of the Year: Joseph Gorman, professor of surgery; Robert Gorman, professor of surgery, director of cardiac surgical research and a member of the bioengineering graduate group; and Matthew Gillespie, associate professor of pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, for “Valve Prosthesis.”
• 2016-2017 Deal of the Year: Jean Bennett, the F.M. Kirby Professor of Ophthalmology in the Perelman School of Medicine; and James Wilson, the Rose H. Weiss Orphan Disease Center Director’s Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine, in recognition of the 2016 Penn-Biogen R&D Alliance.
• 2016-2017 Partner of the Year: Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
• 2016-2017 Inventor of the Year: John D. Lambris, the Dr. Ralph and Sallie Weaver Professor of Research Medicine Ophthalmology in the Perelman School of Medicine, for “Modified Compstatin With Peptide Backbone and C-Terminal Modifications.”
• 2016-2017 Startup of the Year: Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics, computer and information science and electrical and systems engineering, recognizing Exyn Technologies.