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Europäischer Erfinderpreis - 8 News from the people department by European Patent Office

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British chemist is honoured for her groundbreaking work in mass spectrometry

​​Dame Carol Robinson opened a new era for protein analysis and drug development

27-Jun-2024 - British scientist Dame Carol Robinson, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a trailblazer in the field of mass spectrometry, has dedicated her career to exploring the molecular makeup of proteins within their native environments. Her pioneering work has paved the way for ...

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Harvesting metal catalysts from plants used for cleaning contaminated soils

“Ecocatalyst” researcher Claude Grison wins European Inventor Award 2022

23-Jun-2022 - The European Patent Office honoured French scientist Claude Grison with the European Inventor Award 2022 in the "Research" category. The University professor and research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has developed a method of using plants to extract metal ...

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Messenger RNA pioneer Katalin Karikó receives European Inventor Award 2022 for Lifetime achievement

Her research work on modified mRNA paved the way to highly effective vaccines against COVID-19

23-Jun-2022 - The European Patent Office (EPO) honoured Hungarian-American researcher Katalin Karikó with the European Inventor Award 2022 in the category "Lifetime achievement", for her seminal work in developing modified messenger RNA (mRNA) for vaccines and medical therapies. For more than four decades, ...

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Cancer vaccine developers Madiha Derouazi and Elodie Belnoue laureates of the European Inventor Award 2022

New medical platform to make therapeutic cancer vaccines that help the immune system recognise and destroy cancer cells in the body of a patient

23-Jun-2022 - The European Patent Office (EPO) distinguished Swiss biotechnologist Madiha Derouazi and French immunologist Elodie Belnoue with the European Inventor Award 2022 in the "SME" category. The pair have developed a vaccine assembly platform called KISIMA to produce vaccines for treating different ...

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Detecting cancer before it spreads

Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot named European Inventor Award 2019 finalist

10-May-2019 - The European Patent Office (EPO) announces that cancer researcher Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot has been nominated as one of three finalists for the European Inventor Award 2019 in the category "Research" for developing a blood filtering technology for the early detection of cancer. Her invention ...

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A clearer cancer test by measuring immune response

Jérôme Galon named European Inventor Award 2019 finalist

09-May-2019 - The European Patent Office (EPO) today announced that French immunologist Jérôme Galon has been nominated for the European Inventor Award 2019 for his diagnostic cancer test based on a patient's immune response. His invention, which has improved the accuracy of cancer prognosis, uses clues found ...

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Honouring a pioneer of DNA testing

Margarita Salas named European Inventor Award 2019 finalist

09-May-2019 - The European Patent Office (EPO) announces that Spanish scientist and university professor Margarita Salas Falgueras has been nominated for the European Inventor Award 2019 for her pioneering invention that enables DNA tests to reconstruct full genomes from small samples such as a single hair ...

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Screening proteins to expose early signs of illness

Matthias Mann named European Inventor Award 2019 finalist

08-May-2019 - The European Patent Office (EPO) announces that German physicist, biochemist and bioinformatician Matthias Mann has been nominated for the European Inventor Award 2019 for developing techniques to screen proteins in bulk for the early detection of disease. Named as one of three finalists in the ...

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