A team of researchers from the Center for Research in Health Technologies and Services (CINTESIS), representing the University of Algarve (UAlg), won the “Born From Knowledge – Ideas” contest in the Health and Well-Being category. this Friday, July 16th, the Algarve Academy.
BfK Ideas is a competition that brings together the best business ideas “born from scientific and/or technological knowledge”.
With an annual edition, this initiative aims to disseminate and distinguish business ideas from Portuguese Higher Education Institutions, encouraging and supporting the work carried out by these Institutions and their Technology Transfer Offices.
The group of CINTESIS researchers, led by Ana Teresa Maia and Joana Xavier, won the final of the competition with the idea of patenting the product “expressPIK”, a test that will allow the identification, in women with advanced breast cancer, of those with who could be offered an innovative and revolutionary therapy approved last year.
The test will thus allow us to identify which women have a certain genetic mutation and to whom a more personalized and targeted therapy can be applied.
For Ana Teresa Maia, winner of the award, this technology makes it possible to “subscribe to the personalization of a therapy”.
Recognition, in turn, represents an “opportunity to learn to develop the business and technology transfer aspect, something scientists are little used to”.
The University of Algarve team will now have direct access to the “BfK Rise” – a Science and Technology acceleration program aimed at transforming the business potential of the presented idea into a product and/or service.
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