Announcements

- Shintaro Kaido, Vice Provost for Innovation and Executive Director, Drexel Applied Innovation, appointed to Activate’s Leadership Council
  
  June 30, 2022
  Founded in 2015, Activate is a 501(c)3 nonprofit which supports promising scientists whose research has the potential to transform the world’s physical infrastructure and industries and who are driven to bring that research to market.
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- Spark Therapeutics to Invest $575M in New State-of-the-Art Gene Therapy Innovation Center on Drexel’s University City Campus
  
  December 17, 2021
  Spark Therapeutics, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and a fully integrated, commercial gene therapy company dedicated to challenging the inevitability of genetic disease, announced plans to invest an initial $575M in the creation of a new, state-of-the-art gene therapy innovation center on Drexel University’s campus in the heart of Philadelphia’s University City neighborhood. Through a 99-year ground lease of Drexel University’s F Lot, the new center will be located at the intersection of 30th and Chestnut Streets and will create opportunities for collaboration with Drexel University and Philadelphia’s booming life sciences community. Terms of the ground lease, including financial terms, were not disclosed.
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- Drexel to Serve as an Official Host for Citywide B. PHL Innovation Fest
  
  October 10, 2019
  This month Drexel University will be one of 13 host venues for a new citywide celebration of creative thinking, called B. PHL Innovation Fest. The festival, which will be held from Oct. 15-17, is designed to highlight organizations, entrepreneurs and innovators throughout the region.
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- Drexel to Host Pennsylvania's Center For Advanced Fabric Manufacturing Innovation
  
  November 14, 2017
  The Department of Defense’s effort to bring America to the forefront of textile technology manufacturing and innovation is gaining a strategic foothold in the region. Drexel University, in collaboration with DoD-supported Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), is establishing a statewide center that will help companies, entrepreneurs and innovators take their advanced-textile concepts from prototype to product and prepare America’s workforce for the quality jobs this growing sector is generating. Called the “Pennsylvania Fabric Discovery Center,” this statewide resource is the first hub located outside of AFFOA’s home state of Massachusetts. It will be part of a national network intended to lower the barrier to commercialization for functional fabrics, resulting in advanced textiles that do things like see, hear, sense, communicate, generate and store energy.
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- Drexel Seeking New Ways to Tackle Critical Urban Challenges
  
  October 27, 2017
  With the first Urban Innovation Summit and the first trio of Urban Innovation Fellows, Drexel is taking another step toward finding solutions for the problems facing Philadelphia and other cities in the 21st century.
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- Drexel's Tyler Roach Is Churning Out Virtual Reality Ideas
  
  May 04, 2017
  Since he first tried out a virtual reality headset, Tyler Roach has been looking for ways to help people with the latest technological advances. Whether helping doctors practice operating room habits or deaf people communicate without sign language, he’s using virtual reality to make a mark.
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Announcements

Shintaro Kaido, Vice Provost for Innovation and Executive Director, Drexel Applied Innovation, appointed to Activate’s Leadership Council

Spark Therapeutics to Invest $575M in New State-of-the-Art Gene Therapy Innovation Center on Drexel’s University City Campus

Drexel to Serve as an Official Host for Citywide B. PHL Innovation Fest

Drexel to Host Pennsylvania's Center For Advanced Fabric Manufacturing Innovation

Drexel Seeking New Ways to Tackle Critical Urban Challenges

Drexel's Tyler Roach Is Churning Out Virtual Reality Ideas