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Innovations vie for commercial interest at Philadelphia technology event.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004
By Porus P. Cooper, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 9--When University of Pennsylvania doctoral student P. Peter Ghoroghchian brought together two of his professors for an academic experiment, he was also thinking of the idea's commercial prospects. This week he was among a throng of Penn researchers pitching their innovations to prospective investors and business managers.
The Ghoroghchian team invention, named Fluorocell, would use a fluorescent nanoparticle injected in patients to illuminate diseased cells for examination without surgery.
The polymer vessel used to transport the fluorescent material could also be used to deliver drugs, said Ghoroghchian, who is working toward becoming a...
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