2012 Innovators
The following organizations have been awarded the opportunity to present about their cross-sector collaborative initiatives in 2012.
- Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis
- Alzheimer's Association
- CFIDS Association of America
- CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology)
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative
- Code-N
- Critical Path Institute
- Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada
- Dart Therapeutics, LLC
- Harrington Project for Discovery & Development
- Immusoft Corporation
- iValue
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC
- Jonah's Just Begun & Phoenix Nest
- KNODE, Inc.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Life Raft Group
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center
- Mayo Clinic, Program for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
- Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
- Myelin Repair Foundation
- National Cancer Institute, SBIR Development Center
- New York Genome Center, Inc.
- Nicholas Conor Institute
- Rare Genomics Institute
- Sage Bionetworks
- TREAT-NMD
- University of Michigan
About the Innovator Presentations:
FasterCures invited organizations engaged in innovative, cross-sector collaborations aimed at reducing the time and cost of getting new medical solutions from discovery to patients to submit proposals for the 2012 Innovator Presentations. Thank you to all of the applicants for your thoughtful and impressive applications, and congratulations to this year's presenters. We're looking forward to learning more about your partnerships.
Presentations focus on a range of issues, including:
- Translation/commercialization of early stage discoveries
- Data sharing
- Novel research tool development
- Asset repurposing
- Innovative financial models
All partnerships include representatives from at least two of the following sectors:
- nonprofit foundations
- pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies
- research institutes
- universities
- government agencies
- investors
- private philanthropists