Phase 1 - The three most innovative business ideas!

54 teams from 15 countries and 3 continents contested in phase 1 of the competition - a strong signal for the innovative and entrepreneurial power in the life sciences! 14 projects belonged to Medical Technology, 22 to Red Biotechnology, 6 to Supply, 4 to Diagnostics, 3 to Food, 2 to White Biotech, 2 to Bioinformatics and 1 to Green Biotech.

38 BOB evaluators from 6 countries performed a total of 216 evaluations providing detailed feedback to the participants.

On May 10th, 2012, the three winning teams were presented to the public and awarded a cash prize of € 1,500 each at a ceremony held in the premises of Austria Wirtschaftsservice. Find below a short presentation of the winning teams in alphabetical order.

Genequine Biotherapeutics

Kilian GUSE

Development of Biotechnological Drugs for Veterinary Diseases with Large Unmet Medical Needs.

SIMCharacters

Jens SCHWINDT, Christoph KUNZMANN, Michael HOFFMANN

The SIMCharacters Team breaks new ground in the development of small training simulators and combines know- how in the medical area, lifelike anatomy and high-class animation technology.

ViraTherapeutics

Dorothee VON LAER, Lisa EGERER, Sabrina MAROZIN

ViraTherapeutics develops innovative virus –based medicines for the treatment of cancer patients, including those for whom conventional therapy has failed.