News
January 18, 2017 - International Space Station (ISS): ADCs in Microgravity: Overview of Breast Cancer Startup Challenge Winner Oncolinx's Mission to take their winning idea to Space https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2347.html
November 15, 2016 - The Center For Advancing Innovation Spin-Out, Oncolinx, Is The Winner of The Largest Investment Prize for Global Startups
A spin-out company from the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), Oncolinx, has won the 43North Startup Competition. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/11/prweb13832326.htm
November 15, 2016 - The Center For Advancing Innovation Spin-Out, Oncolinx, Is The Winner of The Largest Investment Prize for Global Startups
A spin-out company from the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), Oncolinx, has won the 43North Startup Competition. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/11/prweb13832326.htm
September 2, 2014 - IP Watchdog: IP watchdog writes a compelling article on Breast Cancer Research, Entrepreneurship, and the Center for Advancing Innovation's drive to bridge the two. http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014/09/02/a-passionate-fight-against-breast-cancer/id=50950/
July 21, 2014 - HHS Innovates Award: The Center for Advancing Innovation won the HHS Innovates Secretary's Pick award for orchestrating the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge together with the National Cancer Institute and Avon Foundation; please find links to the event below:
YouTube: http://youtu.be/TDVrkLsv-MQ
HHS Innovates photos on Flicker: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhsgov/sets/72157645823206584/
Blog post announcing winners: http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/2014/07/21/hhs-innovates-celebrates-7th-round-of-innovations/
YouTube: http://youtu.be/TDVrkLsv-MQ
HHS Innovates photos on Flicker: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhsgov/sets/72157645823206584/
Blog post announcing winners: http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/2014/07/21/hhs-innovates-celebrates-7th-round-of-innovations/
April 25, 2014 - Students win Breast Cancer Startup Challenge: Washington University in St. Louis writes about the winners of the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/26841.aspx#.U1qbboKHt4g.tumblr
March 14, 2014 - The innovative approach conceived by The Center for Advancing Innovation to identify and commercialize promising inventions in partnership with the National Cancer Institute and Avon Foundation is featured on the White House Blog "From Lab to Market: Accelerating Research Breakthroughs and Economic Growth" http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/03/14/lab-market-accelerating-research-breakthroughs-and-economic-growth2
March 10, 2014 - WIRED coverage of The Center for Advancing Innovation's CEO and Founder, Rosemarie Truman and the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge "Startups Battle to Rescue Forgotten Breast Cancer Patents" http://bit.ly/1eDwq8q
March 10, 2014 - WIRED coverage of The Center for Advancing Innovation's CEO and Founder, Rosemarie Truman and the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge "Startups Battle to Rescue Forgotten Breast Cancer Patents" http://bit.ly/1eDwq8q
March 7, 2014 - Enterprising Cambridge students win major breast cancer start-up competition http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/enterprising-cambridge-students-win-major-breast-cancer-start-up-competition
March 7, 2014 - Northwestern Students Win Global Startup Contest http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/news/2014/03/global_startup.html
March 7, 2014 - Auckland student in successful breast cancer challenge https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news-events-and-notices/news/news-2014/03/auckland-student-in-successful-breast-cancer-challenge.html
Speakers from our Business Plan Phase Awards Ceremony
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The Business Plan Phase Winners & Finalists
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March 5, 2014 - NIH Videocast of our awards ceremony. Meet our winning teams and the inventors of the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge http://1.usa.gov/1ghw7Eb
March 5, 2014 - The NCI Press Release, "Breast Cancer Startup Challenge announces ten winning teams of entrepreneurs; Promising technologies identified to speed cancer research." http://1.usa.gov/1ctN52x
March 5, 2014 - Read our article from the NCI on the Business Plan Phase winners and watch all of their elevator speeches from Youtube http://1.usa.gov/1ccspvW
March 5, 2014 - Blue Sky Innovation, a division of the Chicago Tribune focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, interviews John Kuelper of Northwestern University on winning the business plan phase of the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge http://bit.ly/1ivuPUZ
March 4, 2014 - NATURE creates an exclusive on the novel model to maximize the commercial potential of National Cancer Institute and Avon Foundation grantee breast cancer related inventions. The title of the article is: "Competition aims to revive languishing breast cancer inventions." Rosemarie Truman, the CEO of The Center for Advancing Innovation is extensively quoted: http://bit.ly/1jZkxOp
February 28, 2014 - The White House Blog mentions the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge as one of many research breakthroughs in innovation and entrepreneurship, "Startup America Going Strong at Three Years" http://1.usa.gov/1foxZv0
March 5, 2014 - The NCI Press Release, "Breast Cancer Startup Challenge announces ten winning teams of entrepreneurs; Promising technologies identified to speed cancer research." http://1.usa.gov/1ctN52x
March 5, 2014 - Read our article from the NCI on the Business Plan Phase winners and watch all of their elevator speeches from Youtube http://1.usa.gov/1ccspvW
March 5, 2014 - Blue Sky Innovation, a division of the Chicago Tribune focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, interviews John Kuelper of Northwestern University on winning the business plan phase of the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge http://bit.ly/1ivuPUZ
March 4, 2014 - NATURE creates an exclusive on the novel model to maximize the commercial potential of National Cancer Institute and Avon Foundation grantee breast cancer related inventions. The title of the article is: "Competition aims to revive languishing breast cancer inventions." Rosemarie Truman, the CEO of The Center for Advancing Innovation is extensively quoted: http://bit.ly/1jZkxOp
February 28, 2014 - The White House Blog mentions the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge as one of many research breakthroughs in innovation and entrepreneurship, "Startup America Going Strong at Three Years" http://1.usa.gov/1foxZv0
February 27, 2014 - Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) released an article about the results and statistics of the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge. Disease Models & Mechanisms publishes original research that uses model organisms to better understand, diagnose and treat human disease. "Pioneering new models to drive innovation in R&D and commercialization for breast cancer inventions." http://bit.ly/1eAwQLJ
Past News
November 13, 2013 - The annual Federal Lab Consortium (FLC) mid-atlantic conference took place from November 13th-November 14th. Rosemarie Truman, Founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Innovation spoke on a panel called "Partnerships to Accelerate Commercialization of Federal Technologies that Positively Impact the Public and Drive Breakthrough Economic Growth." The panel was moderated by Tom Stackhouse, Associate Director, Technology Transfer Center, NCI. The focus of the panel was innovative techniques to accelerate the transfer of Federal technologies to the benefit of the American public. To learn more visit http://www.flcmidatlantic.org/events.html
November 4, 2013 - The annual Partnering for Cures features up to 30 presentations from innovative collaborative R&D programs working to reduce the time it takes to move new medical solutions from discovery to patients. Marc Hurlbert, Executive Director of the Avon Foundation and Rosemarie Truman, Founder and CEO of the Center of Advancing Innovation, presented the the Breast Cancer Start-up Challenge at the conference. To read more about the presentation visit http://partneringforcures.org/assets/P4C-program-agenda2.pdf on page 15
October 25, 2013 - The Kansas City Start released an article outlining the launch of the Breast Cancer Start-up Challenge at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. The Challenge will be announced at the 2013 Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Conference being held at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Rosemarie Truman, Founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Innovation, will be speaking at the conference to detail the Challenge launch. To read more visit http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/24/4574740/breast-cancer-start-up-challenge.html or please click here
October 13, 2013 - The Breast Cancer Startup Challenge is featured on BioCentury this week. We want women and men to know about a new approach the Avon Foundation, National Cancer Institute and Center for Advancing Innovation is using to accelerate breast cancer research. See the transcript of this BCTV episode
October 11, 2013 - The Center for Advancing Innovation to present the Breast Cancer Start-up Challenge at the annual Global Entrepreneurship Conference in a plenary session "Opportunity Knocks" read more here about the event
September 19, 2013 - Avon Foundation for Women, NIH, and The Center for Advancing Innovation launch start-up challenge to advance breast cancer biomedical inventions; student and entrepreneur mentor teams to develop strategic business plan and launch biotech start-up. Click here to learn more
September 5, 2013 - The Challenge has received recognition from the world's largest biotechnology organization, BIO; please find the posting here
September 19, 2013 - Avon Foundation for Women, NIH, and The Center for Advancing Innovation launch start-up challenge to advance breast cancer biomedical inventions; student and entrepreneur mentor teams to develop strategic business plan and launch biotech start-up. Click here to learn more
September 5, 2013 - The Challenge has received recognition from the world's largest biotechnology organization, BIO; please find the posting here