About the Office of Corporate Research

About our collaborations

• Over 250 companies sponsor research or conduct clinical trials with Penn Medicine
  • Approximately 25% leading device companies and 75% come from pharmaceutical companies
• Companies have made multi-year, multimillion dollar commitments to research at Penn Medicine
• Over $500 million of sponsored research has been managed by OCR
• Current and past collaborative research has drawn on the expertise of Penn's Medicine's leading specialists fields including cancer, cardiology, neuroscience, immunology, epidemiology, pulmonology, psychiatry, pharmacology, and pathology
• Penn Medicine can collaborate on every stage of the translational medicine process, from preclinical studies through clinical trials to post-market analyses

Choose Penn Medicine for....

• Access to world-class research-clinicians across a broad range of medical specialties
• Expertise in pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and device development
• Opportunity for broad collaboration, from pre-clinical science through all phases of translational medicine to post-market analyses
• A single urban campus with three major hospitals
• The business and marketing insights of the Wharton School
• Streamlined, time and money saving coordination of all scientific, medical, and administrative departments through an OCR manager assigned to your projects
• Improved speed to market and ROI
• Access to students and trainees for internships