Princeton Post Doc Wins 2024 Tiger Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Oct. 24, 2024

Princeton University celebrated its annual CELEBRATE PRINCETON INNOVATION even on October 10, 2024 which salutes  its researchers who are patenting discoveries, creating start-up companies and exploring other ventures.

Arnold presented the Tiger Entrepreneur Award, which recognizes student, early-career alumni or postdoctoral researcher for entrepreneurial achievement. The 2024 award was given to Justin Silpe. While a postdoctoral researcher(Link is external) in Princeton’s Department of Molecular Biology, Silpe co-founded the company PumpKin(Link is external). Using technology developed on campus, Pumpkin provides ways to extend the shelf life of human breast milk.