Healthcare company-building profile
Penn Nursing Innovation Accelerator
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Medicine affiliate)
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Medicine affiliate)
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Company stage served
- Research or idea stage
- Cohort or participation model
- Not publicly documented
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Yes
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2020
Public description
About the program
The Penn Nursing Innovation Accelerator funds and coaches nurse-originated health care solutions at the earliest stage. Selected students and faculty receive up to $10,000 for research and development, with priority given to ideas serving populations of greatest need. Awardees are mentored by Penn's innovation team and participate in a summer accelerator program based at the Pennovation Center, Penn's translation and commercialization campus. Selection runs through a multi-round competitive process emphasizing entrepreneurial curriculum and business model development. The accelerator sits within Penn Nursing's broader innovation portfolio, which also includes the Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative and Penn4C, a co-creation collaboratory run with Penn Engineering.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Marion Leary — Director of Innovation, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- Awards of up to $10,000 per team for research and development plus a six-week summer accelerator at the Pennovation Center; one-year structured program with mentorship and entrepreneurial curriculum; funded by named donors Carolyn E. Bennett and Thomas L. Bennett, Seth and Jane Ginns, and Andrea B. Laporte; Penn Nursing innovation portfolio includes the Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative and Penn4C, which funded five community-led research projects; nurse scientist Pamela Cacchione's therapeutic robotics work reducing pain and agitation in older adults at Penn Presbyterian
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