✨ It's the moment of truth! After 8 weeks of intense training, coaching, and mentorship, our biotech bootcamp teams showcased their groundbreaking medical ideas on the public stage at the IZB - Innovation and Start-up Center Biotechnology, and guess what? We have our WINNERS! 🏆🎉

🌟 Drumroll, please! 🌟

🏆 GENICITY takes home the prestigious Merck Award! Congratulations to founder and project lead Muneer Sawaied and team! 🎉 They've won a visit to the hashtag#Merckgroup M Lab™ Collaboration Center in Molsheim, France, to work closely with Merck scientists and engineers to solve the toughest challenges and accelerate the development of new therapies. 🇫🇷 

ℹ️ GENICITY is on a mission to make cancer a chronic disease through their allogeneic cell gene therapy platform. GENICITY brings cell therapy within reach, offering safe, affordable, and off-the-shelf allogeneic cell therapies. Their unique universal T cell platform is directed and activated using any anti-CD3 bispecific antibody, targeting and eliminating any type of cancer. 🧬

🏆 And the Roche Audience Award goes to RevoBITs! Congratulations to Stefan Schrüfer, Ruben Gerrit Scheuring, Janik Altenhoefer, and Alexander Björk! 🎊 They've earned an invitation from sponsor Roche to present at the prestigious Bits & Pretzels HealthTech 2024 start-up festival. 🎤 This will allow the winning team to make contact with Roche and the European innovation community to further shape their solution.

ℹ️ RevoBITs is revolutionizing medical research and the pharmaceutical industry with the first smart bioprinter. Their technology enables the development and reproducible production of meaningful human tissue models, aiming to replace animal testing in drug development and provide solutions for transplantation medicine. 💊

🌟 Kudos to all the teams! Your biotech ideas are exceptional, and we wish you immense success in your entrepreneurial journey! 🌱 
Jörn Schmiedel (factorize.bio) | Eimantas Gladkauskas (EmulsiBiotech) | Maksym Galkin (AmyCureBio) | Bohdan Golub (ReactiveOxygenTherapeutics)| Katja Fritschle (RaidoGene) | Andranik Durgaryan, Ph.D. (RiboRUS) | Anna Fleischer (ENDOLEASEsystems) | Volker Morath (RaidoGene) | Muneer Sawaied (Genicity) | Stefan Schrüfer (RevoBITs)

👏 Special thanks to our participants, co-organizer BioM Biotech Cluster Development GmbH, mentors, lecturers, sponsors, and supporters hashtag#merckgroup, Roche, and European Commission for making this BioTech Bootcamp an unforgettable success! 🙌

Got the next game-changing biotech idea? Sign up on our website now to stay informed when applications open for the upcoming BioTech Bootcamp! 🚀 Klick on the following link: https://lnkd.in/epJR52a8
Until next time! 👋

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