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September 20, 2018 - Maryland Startups Announced as Winners of the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) has named Maryland startups as winners of the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC)
July 19, 2018 - The Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge Announces Companies Advancing 100+ Cancer Inventions
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) announces winners of the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC), generously supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and MedImmune
July 27, 2017 - The Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge Opens for Entry August 1st
The Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge opens for entry, looking for industrious entrepreneurs.
July 07, 2017 - 100+ Cancer Inventions Selected to Create High-Impact Startups through the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge
The Center for Advancing Innovation, the world’s largest virtual startup challenge-based accelerator, announced today the 100+ breakthrough cancer inventions that will be commercialized through the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC).
June 23, 2017 - Rosemarie Truman, Founder and CEO of The Center for Advancing Innovation joins Forbes Nonprofit Council
Forbes Nonprofit Council is an invitation-only organization for senior-level executives in successful nonprofit organizations.
June 21, 2017 - The challenge is to beat cancer A challenge has been launched at the world's biggest biotech event to advance 100 breakthroughs in fight against cancer.
June 20, 2017 - 100 Breakthrough Cancer Inventions from 100 Companies? BIO and CAI are Betting On It
There are more than 150,000 inventions that are “sitting on the shelf – because of lack of funding, they’re not de-risked enough, or because they’re not ‘discoverable’ by oustiders,” said Rosemarie Truman, founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI).
June 19, 2017 - BIO Partners with the Center for Advancing Innovation in the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the world's largest biotech trade association, is teaming up with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to engage the biotech community and assist in promoting the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC), a unique initiative designed to advance and commercialize 100 cancer inventions for the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer.
June 14, 2017 - AngelSpan and The Center for Advancing Innovation Form Alliance
AngelSpan, the leading provider of investor relations services for early-stage companies, today announced an alliance with The Center for Advancing Innovation, a cutting-edge organization that has “cracked the code” on tech transfer and breakthrough commercialization.
May 15, 2017 - Open Therapeutics breaking down silos with crowdsourcing
Open Therapeutics announced an intellectual property sharing partnership with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), of Bethesda, Md., a global public-private partnership that helps institutions maximize the commercialization potential of their discoveries through various challenges.
April 20, 2017 - Open Therapeutics and the Center for Advancing Innovation Form Partnership
Will collaborate on advancing intellectual property to the global scientific and entrepreneurial communities
April 11, 2017 - The Center for Advancing Innovation is the "Tinder for Startups!" by NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY
This August a project will launch for matchmaking undiscovered intellectual property (IP) in oncology with talented management teams. The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) will start accepting applications for the initiative, known as the 'Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge' (FCSC), designed to spur biotech startup creation around commercially viable cancer-related IP.
January 31, 2017 - The Center for Advancing Innovation Launches the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge to Create 100 Startups
With support from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and MedImmune, the challenge will seek to uncover potential new oncology diagnostics and therapies.
January 24, 2017 - FLC publishes the NIH Startup Challenge Model
The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) published the NIH Startup Challenge Model highlighting CAI's process, successes, notable results, and feedback from our successful startups. "The Startup Challenge Model is a technology transfer strategy with potential to help simultaneously advance multiple federal inventions from discovery to commercialization."
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.
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) has named Maryland startups as winners of the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC)
July 19, 2018 - The Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge Announces Companies Advancing 100+ Cancer Inventions
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) announces winners of the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC), generously supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and MedImmune
July 27, 2017 - The Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge Opens for Entry August 1st
The Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge opens for entry, looking for industrious entrepreneurs.
July 07, 2017 - 100+ Cancer Inventions Selected to Create High-Impact Startups through the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge
The Center for Advancing Innovation, the world’s largest virtual startup challenge-based accelerator, announced today the 100+ breakthrough cancer inventions that will be commercialized through the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC).
June 23, 2017 - Rosemarie Truman, Founder and CEO of The Center for Advancing Innovation joins Forbes Nonprofit Council
Forbes Nonprofit Council is an invitation-only organization for senior-level executives in successful nonprofit organizations.
June 21, 2017 - The challenge is to beat cancer A challenge has been launched at the world's biggest biotech event to advance 100 breakthroughs in fight against cancer.
June 20, 2017 - 100 Breakthrough Cancer Inventions from 100 Companies? BIO and CAI are Betting On It
There are more than 150,000 inventions that are “sitting on the shelf – because of lack of funding, they’re not de-risked enough, or because they’re not ‘discoverable’ by oustiders,” said Rosemarie Truman, founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI).
June 19, 2017 - BIO Partners with the Center for Advancing Innovation in the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the world's largest biotech trade association, is teaming up with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to engage the biotech community and assist in promoting the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC), a unique initiative designed to advance and commercialize 100 cancer inventions for the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer.
June 14, 2017 - AngelSpan and The Center for Advancing Innovation Form Alliance
AngelSpan, the leading provider of investor relations services for early-stage companies, today announced an alliance with The Center for Advancing Innovation, a cutting-edge organization that has “cracked the code” on tech transfer and breakthrough commercialization.
May 15, 2017 - Open Therapeutics breaking down silos with crowdsourcing
Open Therapeutics announced an intellectual property sharing partnership with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), of Bethesda, Md., a global public-private partnership that helps institutions maximize the commercialization potential of their discoveries through various challenges.
April 20, 2017 - Open Therapeutics and the Center for Advancing Innovation Form Partnership
Will collaborate on advancing intellectual property to the global scientific and entrepreneurial communities
April 11, 2017 - The Center for Advancing Innovation is the "Tinder for Startups!" by NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY
This August a project will launch for matchmaking undiscovered intellectual property (IP) in oncology with talented management teams. The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) will start accepting applications for the initiative, known as the 'Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge' (FCSC), designed to spur biotech startup creation around commercially viable cancer-related IP.
January 31, 2017 - The Center for Advancing Innovation Launches the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge to Create 100 Startups
With support from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and MedImmune, the challenge will seek to uncover potential new oncology diagnostics and therapies.
January 24, 2017 - FLC publishes the NIH Startup Challenge Model
The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) published the NIH Startup Challenge Model highlighting CAI's process, successes, notable results, and feedback from our successful startups. "The Startup Challenge Model is a technology transfer strategy with potential to help simultaneously advance multiple federal inventions from discovery to commercialization."
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.
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.
March 4, 2014 - NATURE: Competition aims to revive languishing breast cancer inventions
Nature creates an exclusive on the novel model to maximize the commercial potential of National Cancer Institute and Avon Foundation grantee breast cancer related inventions. Rosemarie Truman, the CEO of The Center for Advancing Innovation is extensively quoted.
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.
March 4, 2014 - NATURE: Competition aims to revive languishing breast cancer inventions
Nature creates an exclusive on the novel model to maximize the commercial potential of National Cancer Institute and Avon Foundation grantee breast cancer related inventions. Rosemarie Truman, the CEO of The Center for Advancing Innovation is extensively quoted.