Breast Cancer Startup Challenge Inventions and Winners

The Avon Foundation for Women, in partnership with NCI and the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), have announced the ten winners of a world-wide competition to accelerate the process of bringing emerging breast cancer research technologies to market. Each team was required to produce a short video explaining and highlighting their ideas.  The videos are from the winners of the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge.  This listing does not constitute NCI’s endorsement of the companies or potential products and does not guarantee a grant of license for any federally-owned technology. Videos from the winning teams are below. Challenge #1. Diagnostic from Biopsies with Software Analysis Category: Diagnostics/Health IT Lead Inventor: Tom Misteli, PhD, NCI Winner: University of Cambridge Click here to view the embedded video. • • Challenge #2 -Immunotherapy Using Modified Self Tumor Cells Category: Therapeutic Lead Inventor: Dennis Klinman, M.D., Ph.D., NCI Winner: Washington University in Saint Louis Click here to view the embedded video. • • Challenge #3 – Combination of Tissue Reconstruction and Recurrence Prevention Category: Device/Therapeutic Lead Inventor: Karen Burg, Ph.D., Clemson University Winner: Tulane University Click here to view the embedded video. Finalist: Clemson University Click here to view the embedded video. • • Challenge #4 – Human monoclonal Antibody Based Cancer Therapies Category: Therapeutic, Diagnostic Lead Invent...
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