Over 19 decades, the Diario de Pernambuco more than accompanied the story. It also helped shape it. Reporting and supporting scientific advances and the local initiative was one of the ways offered by the newspaper to which proposed to fill them with a many doses of boldness and many other innovation. Thinking about it, the vehicle takes for himself the commitment to support a technological breakthrough already recognized as rare and potentially revolutionary: an application for mobile that aims to detect the likelihood of a person developing cancer over a lifetime, before the emergence of any tumor. The fact is such as to play from Monday, a prize of one million dollars investment that should be applied to the development of the platform and can be obtained through participation and popular vote on the Internet.
the project in question combines the knowledge detection of already renowned diseases Laboratory of Immunopathology Keizo Asami (Lika), the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), the expertise of Epitrack, Pernambuco startup that develops digital detection platforms syndromes. This is an application available on any mobile device that, combined with a biosensor platform with just a drop of blood, can detect the likelihood of a person developing cancer. The idea is to make it as simple and accessible process as a measuring instrument of glucose, available at any pharmacy, given that an examination of the genre today demand a few thousand real and a reasonable time to obtain results
the proposal already was the winner of the national stage of the annual contest the Venture, which includes the best ideas in social entrepreneurship area, against best known initiatives of the public as the Collab, which monitors urban problems in large cities and communicate them to the municipal administrations, on a digital platform. The Epitrak now begins its international dispute against innovative initiatives from 27 countries in competition sponsored by Chivas whiskey brand.
In all, $ 750,000 delivered to a crowned proposal and other $ 250,000 distributed among all competitors in proportion to the number of votes obtained by each in www.theventure.com site. Voting begins this May 9 and will continue until June 13. The following month, on 14 July, a ceremony in New York will define the winner among five finalists.
Founded in 2013, Epitrack quickly became a foreign capital company in its core. “We initially billed in dollars and then start dealing with real. We are born international “, says CEO Onício Leal. You’re right to be. He says that two of the five largest participatory surveillance platforms in health, ie, technologies that work from the data provided by users collaboratively to identify outbreaks before they happen, are part of the company’s portfolio. “One in Brazil, called Guardians of Health recently launched, and in the United States and Canada, Flu near you (in Portuguese,” flu near you “), dedicated platform for influenza. This has even had confirmation from other sources that give us security that it can predict an epidemic before it happens, “says Onício.
Service
The vote
Start: May 9, 2016
Where: www.theventure.com
How long: Every week, up to 13 June
Award:. at this stage,
US $ 250 000, divided proportionally among the 27 startups, according to the number of votes
announcement of the winner of the remaining US $ . 750000:
July 14 in New York
Vote: A person
per week
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