Apply Now!  Boehringer Ingelheim’s Inaugural 2017 Innovation Prize at BioLabs, San Diego

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2017 at 5:30 PM

BioLabs, 10210 Campus Point Drive, Suite 150 San Diego, CA, 92121

Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF) recognize the power of start-ups to create and sustain innovative pipelines for new breakthrough therapies.  It is the creativity and dedication of start-up companies that ensures the innovation pipeline continues to expand and offer new solutions to unmet medical need.  We acknowledge the challenges and dedication it takes to start new companies, and we are in constant admiration of innovators willing to take the risk to bring their ideas to market. 

BI and BIVF are pleased to announce the inaugural 2017 Innovation Prize in celebration and support of the innovation process. 

Who should apply?
We invite all inventors & academics, early-stage innovators  and spin-outs, pursuing life-science therapeutic platform technologies and therapeutics (any indication, any modality) to participate in this prize.

What is the Innovation Prize
The Boehringer Ingelheim Innovation Prize is a Golden Ticket for San Diego BioLabs (valued at $75,000 USD) awarded to any therapeutics-based company.

Requirements

  • Companies cannot be capitalized over $2 million by venture financing;
  • Companies must not have a major partnership with another large bio-pharmaceutical company;
  • Companies must be focused on new target concepts, drug discovery in any therapeutic indication, or platform technologies.

N.B. Exclusions are: Diagnostics, Instrument development, and Health-IT .

Applicants must provide a non-confidential deck of no more than 10 slides.  Slides must address unmet medical need, solution, scientific principal, key data supporting the scientific principal, overview of business case, path to market and intellectual property.

How to apply and deadlines
Please send slides to:

All presentations must be submitted by end of business, February 20th, 2017.  BI will select and invite 15 candidates to present posters at BioLabs on the day of the event.  The top 5 candidates will be chosen from among the 15 poster presentations. Each of the top 5 will give a short 5 minute pitch before a panel of judges.  The winner will be announced at the BI Innovation Prize reception to be held at Lab BioLabs, 10210 Campus Point Drive, Suite 150, San Diego, CA, 92121 starting at 5:30 pm on March 2nd, 2017.