ABOUT THE CHALLENGE: The Avon Foundation, The Center for Advancing Innovation, and the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute have partnered to create the first ever business plan and start-up "Challenge" featuring inventions conceived and developed by scientists at the National Cancer Institute and Avon Foundation grantees to accelerate commercialization in support of high-growth businesses that spur entrepreneurship
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Business Plan WinnersInvention #1 WINNER - Cambridge University, Radial Genomics
TEAM MEMBERS: Nikolaus Konstantin Wenzl Hind Kraytem Tim Xu Grecia Gonzalez Alasdair Thong Invention #2 WINNER - Washington University in Saint Louis TEAM MEMBERS: Hirak Biswas Anurag Agarwal Whitney Grither Erik Nyre Gurudutta Begur Nadiger Invention #3 WINNER- Tulane University TEAM MEMBERS: Frank Glaser Brian Hasselfeld Parastoo Khoshakhlagh Invention #3 FINALIST - Clemson University , Novo Epi Scaffold Technology TEAM MEMBERS: Michael Gara James Chow Joseph Holland Alison Lamb Dr. Brian McKinley Breanne Przestrzelski Dr. David Orr Invention #4 WINNER - Stanford University TEAM MEMBERS: Ka Yam Chak Graeme Fielder Francis W. Hunter Guus Bol Jinfeng Shen Joyce Zhang Nader Nouri Zad Invention #5 WINNER - Northwestern University, Orpheden Therapeutics TEAM MEMBERS: John Kuelper Daniel Levine Jonathan Bell Ronald Mantel Mthabisi Moyo Matthew Rosenstock Invention #6 WINNER - Rutgers University, OncoLinx TEAM MEMBERS: Sourav Sinha Riley Ennis Allen Lin Navin Nathan Errik Anderson Invention #7 WINNER - Cambridge University, Riband 557 TEAM MEMBERS: Alice MacNeil Julia Powles Moharem El Gihani Alexander Frey Jun-Han Su Aleksandra Kotwica Invention #7 FINALIST - Wake Forest University WFU Bespoke Therapeutics: TEAM MEMBERS: Alison Arter Andy Bowline Gonzo Estupinan John Hodnette Kyle Murrah Janel Suburu Invention #8 WINNER - Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Lab TEAM MEMBERS: Naveen Chandramohan Gerardo Ramirez Invention #9 WINNER - McGill University ROSALIND & MORRIS GOODMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE, ProVivoX Inc. TEAM MEMBERS: Dmitri Kharitidi Shawn McGuirk Étienne Audet-Walsh Vincent Ménard Edwin Ferrer Lucas Collecchia Invention #10 WINNER - Tulane University TEAM MEMBERS: Brian Yu Richard Tang Muralidharan Anbalagan |
Business Plan NewsSpeakers from our Business Plan Phase Awards Ceremony
The Business Plan Phase Winners & Finalists
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
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 Read our article from the NCI on the Businness Plan Phase winners and watch all of their elevator speeches from Youtube http://1.usa.gov/1ccspvW Bluesky, 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 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 Februrary 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
Challenge Results so Far200 teams had interest in participating
46 teams were accepted into the challenge 478 team members are participating cumulatively 48 unique universities are represented 83 universities participated on teams; some universities had different students on more than one team US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, India and the Netherlands are the countries represented 21% of the team members are from outside the US 4356 collective years of experience: 791 in startups; 1523 in medical/scientific, 839 consulting/VC and 1203 life sciences business operations experience; please see graph below 
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Thanks to Finnegan for their generosity in supporting the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge Business Plan Ceremony
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
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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.
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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
Challenge Information
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Challenge Background and Overview:
The Avon Foundation (AF), The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) are partnering to accelerate and increase the volume of technology transfer and commercialization of Federal agency and AF grantee inventions Using selected NCI inventions from the HHS patent portfolio and an AF grantee invention, we are organizing a "first of a kind" national, university student-based start-up competition (that may also involve faculty, alumni, regional entrepreneurs and other professionals). This Challenge provides an opportunity for students to develop a business plan for an innovative technology and launch a start-up We hope that, by holding this Challenge, we can encourage and increase student entrepreneurship and maximize the economic and health impact of Federal agency and AF grantee inventions |
Overall Goals
End-Point: New start-up or, potentially, a licensing agreement between the institution that owns the invention and an existing start-up Challenge Teams' Opportunity
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