Open Therapeutics Announced as a Winner of Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge

Minneapolis, MN and Bethesda, MD – July 26, 2018 – Open Therapeutics LLC, a scientific collaboration platform company, is a winner of the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC).
The FCSC, generously supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and MedImmune®, has an overarching goal to advance more than one hundred inventions to prevent, diagnose and/or treat cancer. The inventions were developed at fifty-five institutions, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Rosemarie Truman, CAI’s Founder and CEO, said, “The Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge has been CAI’s most audacious initiative. The Challenge has united our nation’s brain trust against cancer by galvanizing the entrepreneurial, pharmaceutical, patient and academic communities.”
According to Jason E. Barkeloo, Founder and Chair of Open Therapeutics, “We are extremely proud to have achieved this important milestone. We could not have reached this point without CAI’s leadership. We are excited to advance these 27 inventions in our Therapoid.net scientific collaboration platform that is freely available to researchers around the world.”
See below for the list of IP that Open Therapeutics will work to advance:
https://www.freedomfromcancerchallenge.org/open.html
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Contact: Jerome Hamilton, CEO, Open Therapeutics
+1.651.900.0412
Jerome@OpenTherapeutics.org
Twitter: @OpenTherapeutic
Telegram: https://t.me/OpenTherapeutics

Open Therapeutics (http://OpenTherapeutics.org) is an intellectual property firm that creates and attracts therapeutic technologies and crowdsources them for use by the global scientific community. Researchers can freely access the intellectual properties, funding, lab equipment, manuscript development tool, and preprint server to further the development of the therapeutic technologies (medical devices, pharma, diagnostics) at Therapoid™ (https://Therapoid.net). The Company is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, with operations in Cincinnati, OH, Amman, Jordan, and Bangalore, India.

Open Therapeutics
P.O Box 30085
Cincinnati, OH 45230

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