To celebrate the spirit of innovation, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will be awarding an Innovation Prize in NYC on August 15 this year! Please submit your entry by July 19 for a chance to win!
The Prize:
· One Golden Ticket (pre-paid rent for one reserved lab bench at BioLabs@NYULangone in NYC for 1 year; valued at $75,000)
Entry Deadline:
· July 19
Date of Competition:
· August 15 (5-8pm) – Register for the event here
Requirements:
· Early-stage innovators and spin-outs that are pursuing life-science therapeutic platform technologies and therapeutics (in any indication, any modality) are invited to participate. Diagnostics, Instrument development, and Health-IT are excluded at this time.
· Companies must be founded and have their principal place of business in New York
· Companies must not have a major partnership with another large bio-pharmaceutical company
· Companies must be focused on new target concepts or drug discovery.
How to Apply:
· Applicants must provide a non-confidential deck of no more than ten slides. Slides must address unmet medical need, solution, scientific principle, key data supporting the scientific principle, overview of business case, and intellectual property
· Please submit proposals through the BI Portal or to Monica Cheng (monica.cheng@boehringer-ingelheim.com)
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to present their ideas in a poster session at BioLabs, NYC, on August 15, 2019, from which a final short-list is selected to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges. Winner will be announced during at the end of the event on August 15.
