Supplement: Technology Roundup

Technology Roundup By Jack Lucentini One of the Greater Philadelphia region's strengths is its robust science and technology research. This sampling of efforts underway at the area's institutions reveals projects ranging from basic science to cutting-edge technologies in clinical development. Many of the products under development represent part of a growing trend: a shift toward personalized medicine. Innovative Technology Greater Philadelphia Innovation -->

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One of the Greater Philadelphia region's strengths is its robust science and technology research. This sampling of efforts underway at the area's institutions reveals projects ranging from basic science to cutting-edge technologies in clinical development. Many of the products under development represent part of a growing trend: a shift toward personalized medicine.

Innovative Technology

Bristol Myers-Squibb: Matching the Drug to the Tumor

Rutgers-Camden Institute to Focus on Integrative Biology

Neuronetics: Magnets in Medicine

Temple University Medical School: : Taking the Bite out of COPD

Absorption Systems: Testing Transporters

University of Pennsylvania Medical School: Drano for the Arteries

Tengion: Building a Better Bladder

Thomas Jefferson University's Kimmel Cancer Center: Need a Cancer Research Edge? Get on the Grid

Orphagenix: Fixing Genetic Error

BioNanomatrix: Lab-on-a-chip Technology Goes Nano

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