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November 22, 2016 - Publication, Cancer Nanotechnology; Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research, Profiling lung adenocarcinoma by liquid biopsy: can one size fit all? Written by members of Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer finalist, OneTest Diagnostics. "The authors are grateful to Ms. Rosemarie Truman and Mr. Jonathan Lui from the Centre for Advancing Innovation for valuable discussions and guidance. This work relies on open source data provided by The Cancer Genome Atlas Network, and would not have been possible without their free access principles"
July 26, 2016 - Press Release, The Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer Announces 10 Winning Teams to Launch Startups around Promising Inventions Winning teams will move forward to the third and final phase of the challenge - the Startup Phase. In this phase, the winning teams will form their startups to advance cancer nanotechnology inventions.
July 14,2016 - Press Release, The Center for Advancing Innovation Partners with the Founder Institute to Increase Founders’ Probability of Success
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), which leads the world’s preeminent global challenge-accelerator program to commercialize federally funded inventions, announced a new partnership with the Founder Institute, the world’s premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program.
June 9, 2016 - Truman and Locke, Cancer Nanotechnology; Basic, Translational and Clinical Research
On March 4th, 2016, Springer’s Cancer Nanotechnology office promoted the launch of the Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer (NSC2). This innovation-development model is a partnership among our company, the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, and multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NSC 2 “crowdsources” talent from around the world to launch startups with near-term, commercially viable cancer nanotechnology inventions, which were developed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).
April 7, 2016- Press Release, The Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer Accepts 28 Teams to Launch Startups from Unlicensed NIH Inventions
Twenty-eight multidisciplinary teams, composed of 274 entrepreneurs with experience in science, business, and law, have been accepted to participate in the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI)’s Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer (NSC2). This open innovation startup is designed to bring near-term, commercially viable cancer nanotechnology inventions to market. NSC2 teams will compete to commercialize seven inventions that were conceived and developed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NSC2 has also accepted four “third-party” inventions that were produced outside of the NIH in university laboratories.
March 4, 2016 - Currell and Bellringer, Cancer Nanotechnology: Basic, Translational and Clinical Research.
A significant new innovation-development model is being launched in the field of cancer and nanotechnology. Here at Springer’sCancer Nanotechnology office, we thought it would be something of interest to our readers. Known as the Nano Startup Challenge in Cancer—or NSC2 for short—this exciting model is being run by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in partnership with the Centre for Advancing Innovation and is being supported by MedImmune/AstraZenica. This article is the first in a set covering the challenge as it unfolds.
July 26, 2016 - Press Release, The Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer Announces 10 Winning Teams to Launch Startups around Promising Inventions Winning teams will move forward to the third and final phase of the challenge - the Startup Phase. In this phase, the winning teams will form their startups to advance cancer nanotechnology inventions.
July 14,2016 - Press Release, The Center for Advancing Innovation Partners with the Founder Institute to Increase Founders’ Probability of Success
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), which leads the world’s preeminent global challenge-accelerator program to commercialize federally funded inventions, announced a new partnership with the Founder Institute, the world’s premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program.
June 9, 2016 - Truman and Locke, Cancer Nanotechnology; Basic, Translational and Clinical Research
On March 4th, 2016, Springer’s Cancer Nanotechnology office promoted the launch of the Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer (NSC2). This innovation-development model is a partnership among our company, the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, and multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NSC 2 “crowdsources” talent from around the world to launch startups with near-term, commercially viable cancer nanotechnology inventions, which were developed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).
April 7, 2016- Press Release, The Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer Accepts 28 Teams to Launch Startups from Unlicensed NIH Inventions
Twenty-eight multidisciplinary teams, composed of 274 entrepreneurs with experience in science, business, and law, have been accepted to participate in the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI)’s Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer (NSC2). This open innovation startup is designed to bring near-term, commercially viable cancer nanotechnology inventions to market. NSC2 teams will compete to commercialize seven inventions that were conceived and developed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NSC2 has also accepted four “third-party” inventions that were produced outside of the NIH in university laboratories.
March 4, 2016 - Currell and Bellringer, Cancer Nanotechnology: Basic, Translational and Clinical Research.
A significant new innovation-development model is being launched in the field of cancer and nanotechnology. Here at Springer’sCancer Nanotechnology office, we thought it would be something of interest to our readers. Known as the Nano Startup Challenge in Cancer—or NSC2 for short—this exciting model is being run by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in partnership with the Centre for Advancing Innovation and is being supported by MedImmune/AstraZenica. This article is the first in a set covering the challenge as it unfolds.
October 29, 2015 - White House, Applying the Innovation Toolkit to Bring Cancer Nanotechnology Inventions to Market
Summary: The Nanotechnology Startup Challenge for Cancer employs a range of innovative strategies to bring cancer nanotechnology inventions to market. Nanotech Startup Challenge in Cancer launches to create new high-impact companies around promising nanotechnology cancer-related inventions.
To support the United States as a nation of innovators, the Administration has introduced many tools to the Federal government’s innovation toolkit. As described in the Strategy for American Innovation, these tools are aimed at uncovering the best ideas, wherever they may lie, and creating opportunities for those ideas to find their way to the marketplace. It is rare to find a program that opens that toolbox as wide as the Nanotechnology Startup Challenge for Cancer(NSC2) — an open-innovation competition designed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the non-profit Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to bring promising cancer nanotechnology inventions to market. Please spread the word and participate as a mentor/advisor/team member.
October 29, 2015 - Press Release, Launch of New Challenge to Create Startups Around Promising Cancer-Related, Nanotechnology Inventions
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) announces the launch of the Nanotechnology Startup Challenge for Cancer (NSC2). This is the third in a series of startup challenges developed from the partnership between CAI and National Cancer Institute’s Technology Transfer Center following two award-winning competitions, the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge and the Neuro Startup Challenge. NSC2 is an open innovation competition designed to bring promising cancer nanotechnology inventions to market.
Summary: The Nanotechnology Startup Challenge for Cancer employs a range of innovative strategies to bring cancer nanotechnology inventions to market. Nanotech Startup Challenge in Cancer launches to create new high-impact companies around promising nanotechnology cancer-related inventions.
To support the United States as a nation of innovators, the Administration has introduced many tools to the Federal government’s innovation toolkit. As described in the Strategy for American Innovation, these tools are aimed at uncovering the best ideas, wherever they may lie, and creating opportunities for those ideas to find their way to the marketplace. It is rare to find a program that opens that toolbox as wide as the Nanotechnology Startup Challenge for Cancer(NSC2) — an open-innovation competition designed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the non-profit Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to bring promising cancer nanotechnology inventions to market. Please spread the word and participate as a mentor/advisor/team member.
October 29, 2015 - Press Release, Launch of New Challenge to Create Startups Around Promising Cancer-Related, Nanotechnology Inventions
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) announces the launch of the Nanotechnology Startup Challenge for Cancer (NSC2). This is the third in a series of startup challenges developed from the partnership between CAI and National Cancer Institute’s Technology Transfer Center following two award-winning competitions, the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge and the Neuro Startup Challenge. NSC2 is an open innovation competition designed to bring promising cancer nanotechnology inventions to market.
News from our Past Challenges
August 18, 2015 - ExitEvents, #FirstDay: The Who, What, When of UNC Startup 2015-2016
August 5, 2015 - FierceDiagnostics, Crowdsourcing challenge winner looking to commercialize NIH tech to diagnose brain cancer
July 13, 2015 - The Herald Sun, UNC team wins Startup Challenge
July 6, 2015 - UNC Campus Updates, Carolina team to compete for top brain challenge prize
June 25, 2015 - The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern-based startup named winner in Neuro Startup Challenge
June 4, 2015 - New Orleans Times-Picayune, Tulane grad students win pitch competition for new brain health therapy
June 3, 2015 - Milwaukee BizTimes, Medical College team wins contest, launches biotech company
May 28, 2015 - Tulane New Wave, Two Tulane teams win big in international competition
May 21, 2015 - Neuro Startup Challenge Announces Business Plan Winners
May 13, 2015 - BioAlabama held their Annual Meeting and Science Symposium. Rosemarie Truman provided a keynote on the dynamics of startups and provided a proposal for driving economic growth, spurring entrepreneurship, and at the same time making significant strides to impact human health and reduce the cost of care through platforms such as the Neuro Startup Challenge.
April 29, 2015 - Rosemarie Truman opened up the 2015 IP and Business Summit at the Wild Dunes Resort in South Carolina. Rosemarie's talk was called Galvanizing the Next Era of Breakthrough Innovation.
December 30, 2014 - NIH and Center for Advancing Innovation Launch Neuro Start-Up Challenge Dana Foundation blog features the Neuro Startup Challenge and NIH partners in the challenge: Heritage Provider Network and The Center for Advancing Innovation, explaining the critical gap filled by the challenge and the value to those participating. http://danablog.org/2014/12/30/nih-and-center-for-advancing-innovation-cai-launch-neuro-start-up-challenge/
December 29, 2014 - 9 Healthcare Tech Startups To Watch, As venture capital flows into healthcare, look at some new companies that should be on your radar. Information Week features the Neuro Startup Challenge and partners: NIH, Heritage Provider Network and The Center for Advancing Innovation http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/leadership/9-healthcare-tech-startups-to-watch/d/d-id/1318263
December 23, 2014 - Neuro Startup Challenge Accepts 71 Teams to Compete in Launching New Startups Around Unlicensed NIH Inventions. First Phase of Competition Open for Public Voting and Crowd Sourcing January 12, 2015 http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/neuro-startup-challenge-accepts-71-teams-compete-launching-new-startups-around-unlicensed-1979254.htm
December 22, 2014 - NIH launches crowdsourcing challenge to commercialize its neurological medical devices by Fierce Medical Devices. Fierce highlights the partnership between the NIH, Heritage Provider Network and Center for Advancing Innovation formed to advance neuroscience by crowdsourcing teams from around the world; please read more here: http://links.mkt1985.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTE1MDU0ODAS1&r=MTg5NDA2NzUwODES1&j=NDAzOTc5NDIyS0&mt=1&rt=0#4
December 17, 2014 - Startup Challenge Program a New Way to Advance Multiple Inventions Into Multiple Startup Companies at One Time
December 5, 2014 - The White House highlights the Neuro Startup Challenge in their "Celebrating National Entrepreneurship Month" blog as being a "startup accelerator model to advance national priorities." Please review the blog here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/12/05/celebrating-national-entrepreneurship-month
November 19, 2014 - Federal Laboratory Consortium Technology Transfer Excellence Award: The Breast Cancer Startup Challenge won the 's Technology Transfer Excellence award today. , Jenny Wong, and I were at the event to receive the award. The challenge created a novel platform to advance breast cancer inventions by launching startups around 9 inventions and 1 invention from . The model can be used across Federal Labs to get more inventions commercialized. We're currently running the and hope to launch 3 more challenges in 2015, one with
November 14, 2014 - Dynamica - Key Note: Rosemarie Truman served as a key note speaker; the title of her talk: “Creating Sustainable Growth Breakthroughs - Innovation at its Best.” Please find the website here:
HHS Idea Lab Blog, November 4, 2014: HHS Idea Lab's blog has posted an article outlining the successes of our Breast Cancer Startup Challenge and Neuro Startup Challenge. Click the link to read more! http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/2014/11/04/success-of-breast-cancer-startup-challenge-spurs-new-challenge-at-nih/
October 3, 2014 - Science and Technology Policy Exchange -Key Note: Rosemarie Truman served as a key note speaker; the title of her talk: “Galvanizing the Next Era of Breakthrough Innovation.” Please find the website here: http://www.sp-exchange.ca/2014-exchange/program-2014/
HHS Innovates Award, July 21, 2014: 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:
Blog post announcing winners: http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/2014/07/21/hhs-innovates-celebrates-7th-round-of-innovations/
August 5, 2015 - FierceDiagnostics, Crowdsourcing challenge winner looking to commercialize NIH tech to diagnose brain cancer
July 13, 2015 - The Herald Sun, UNC team wins Startup Challenge
July 6, 2015 - UNC Campus Updates, Carolina team to compete for top brain challenge prize
June 25, 2015 - The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern-based startup named winner in Neuro Startup Challenge
June 4, 2015 - New Orleans Times-Picayune, Tulane grad students win pitch competition for new brain health therapy
June 3, 2015 - Milwaukee BizTimes, Medical College team wins contest, launches biotech company
May 28, 2015 - Tulane New Wave, Two Tulane teams win big in international competition
May 21, 2015 - Neuro Startup Challenge Announces Business Plan Winners
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May 13, 2015 - BioAlabama held their Annual Meeting and Science Symposium. Rosemarie Truman provided a keynote on the dynamics of startups and provided a proposal for driving economic growth, spurring entrepreneurship, and at the same time making significant strides to impact human health and reduce the cost of care through platforms such as the Neuro Startup Challenge.
April 29, 2015 - Rosemarie Truman opened up the 2015 IP and Business Summit at the Wild Dunes Resort in South Carolina. Rosemarie's talk was called Galvanizing the Next Era of Breakthrough Innovation.
December 30, 2014 - NIH and Center for Advancing Innovation Launch Neuro Start-Up Challenge Dana Foundation blog features the Neuro Startup Challenge and NIH partners in the challenge: Heritage Provider Network and The Center for Advancing Innovation, explaining the critical gap filled by the challenge and the value to those participating. http://danablog.org/2014/12/30/nih-and-center-for-advancing-innovation-cai-launch-neuro-start-up-challenge/
December 29, 2014 - 9 Healthcare Tech Startups To Watch, As venture capital flows into healthcare, look at some new companies that should be on your radar. Information Week features the Neuro Startup Challenge and partners: NIH, Heritage Provider Network and The Center for Advancing Innovation http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/leadership/9-healthcare-tech-startups-to-watch/d/d-id/1318263
December 23, 2014 - Neuro Startup Challenge Accepts 71 Teams to Compete in Launching New Startups Around Unlicensed NIH Inventions. First Phase of Competition Open for Public Voting and Crowd Sourcing January 12, 2015 http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/neuro-startup-challenge-accepts-71-teams-compete-launching-new-startups-around-unlicensed-1979254.htm
December 22, 2014 - NIH launches crowdsourcing challenge to commercialize its neurological medical devices by Fierce Medical Devices. Fierce highlights the partnership between the NIH, Heritage Provider Network and Center for Advancing Innovation formed to advance neuroscience by crowdsourcing teams from around the world; please read more here: http://links.mkt1985.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTE1MDU0ODAS1&r=MTg5NDA2NzUwODES1&j=NDAzOTc5NDIyS0&mt=1&rt=0#4
December 17, 2014 - Startup Challenge Program a New Way to Advance Multiple Inventions Into Multiple Startup Companies at One Time
December 5, 2014 - The White House highlights the Neuro Startup Challenge in their "Celebrating National Entrepreneurship Month" blog as being a "startup accelerator model to advance national priorities." Please review the blog here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/12/05/celebrating-national-entrepreneurship-month
November 19, 2014 - Federal Laboratory Consortium Technology Transfer Excellence Award: The Breast Cancer Startup Challenge won the 's Technology Transfer Excellence award today. , Jenny Wong, and I were at the event to receive the award. The challenge created a novel platform to advance breast cancer inventions by launching startups around 9 inventions and 1 invention from . The model can be used across Federal Labs to get more inventions commercialized. We're currently running the and hope to launch 3 more challenges in 2015, one with
November 14, 2014 - Dynamica - Key Note: Rosemarie Truman served as a key note speaker; the title of her talk: “Creating Sustainable Growth Breakthroughs - Innovation at its Best.” Please find the website here:
HHS Idea Lab Blog, November 4, 2014: HHS Idea Lab's blog has posted an article outlining the successes of our Breast Cancer Startup Challenge and Neuro Startup Challenge. Click the link to read more! http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/2014/11/04/success-of-breast-cancer-startup-challenge-spurs-new-challenge-at-nih/
October 3, 2014 - Science and Technology Policy Exchange -Key Note: Rosemarie Truman served as a key note speaker; the title of her talk: “Galvanizing the Next Era of Breakthrough Innovation.” Please find the website here: http://www.sp-exchange.ca/2014-exchange/program-2014/
HHS Innovates Award, July 21, 2014: 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:
Blog post announcing winners: http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/2014/07/21/hhs-innovates-celebrates-7th-round-of-innovations/
