"It's make it or break it time."
Well prepared after 8 weeks of intense training, coaching and mentoring the hashtag#BioTechBootcamp teams got the chance today – at hashtag#DemoDay - to pitch their medical ideas on the public stage at the at the IZB - Innovation and Start-up Center Biotechnology. Find a wrap-up and the teams of the BioTech Bootcamp 2023 and their ideas here: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gJsTvQ3q

And the winners are: Genicity Ltd. and RevoBITs! Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

🏆 GENICITY won the Merck Prize: A visit to the Merck M Lab™ Collaboration Center in Molsheim, France. The winner team will have the chance to work closely with Merck scientists and engineers to solve the toughest challenges and accelerate the development of new therapies. Congratulations to founder and project lead Muneer Sawaied and team!

ℹ️ hashtag#GENICITY brings cell therapy within reach. GENICITY is an allogeneic cell gene therapy platform dedicated to making cancer a chronic disease by offering safe, affordable and off-the-shelf allogeneic cell therapies. GENICITY offers a unique universal T cell platform that can be directed and activated using any anti-CD3 bispecific antibody to target and eliminate any type of cancer. 

🏆 And the hashtag#RocheAudienceAward went to: hashtag#RevoBITs! Congrats to Stefan Schrüfer, Ruben Gerrit Scheuring, Janik Altenhoefer, Alexander Björk!

The team of RevoBITs from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg-Erlangen receives an invitation from sponsor Roche to give a presentation at the Bits & Pretzels HealthTech 2024 start-up festival. This will give the future hashtag#startup the opportunity to make contact with Roche and the European innovation community to further develop solutions for its 💡 idea. 

ℹ️ RevoBITs develops the first 🖨️ smart bioprinter to enable medical research and the pharmaceutical industry to develop and reproducibly produce meaningful human tissue models. The printer provides the technological basis to replace animal testing in 💊 drug development and to provide tissue for transplantation medicine in the long term.

🙇‍♀️ Chapeau to all! Great pitches, 
Jörn Schmiedel | Eimantas Gladkauskas | Maksym Galkin | Bohdan Golub | Katja Fritschle | Andranik Durgaryan, Ph.D. | Anna Fleischer | Tomasz Jüngst | Volker Morath !

Well done, teams! That was our time to shine! Your biotech ideas are exceptional and we wish you all the best for your entrepreneurial future! 
👉 hashtag#AmyCureBio | 👉 hashtag#EmulsiBiotech | 👉 hashtag#ENDOLEASEsystems | 👉 factorize.bio | 👉 Genicity | 👉 hashtag#RaidoGene | 👉 hashtag#ReactiveOxygenTherapeutics (ROT) | 👉 RevoBITs | 👉 hashtag#RiboRUS