On Friday, 30 of Yale's top investigators presented their projects to 16 industry judges and a virtual audience of approximately 200.

"On behalf of the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, we are incredibly grateful to the Blavatnik Family Foundation, and to our generous event sponsors, Shipman & Goodwin, First Republic Bank, and Jubilant Biosys. To each presenter: thank you for sharing your work with us, and congratulations to the day's winners. It was great to see so many promising projects in therapeutics, medical devices - and for the first time this year - digital health take the virtual PitchFest stage. We are now looking ahead to Yale Innovation Summit in May." - Bill Wiesler, Director of New Ventures & of Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale.
Meet the Day's Winners!
Audience Choice Awards
Pitch Block 1:
Akiko Iwasaki
Courtesy of Jubilant Biosys

Pan-antiviral Antibodies
Pitch Block 2:
Jean-Ju Chung
Courtesy of Jubilant Biosys

The CatSper Male Contraceptive
Pitch Block 3:
Sophia Chheang
Courtesy of First Republic Bank

NLP-based Radiology Report Simplification and Summarization System
Pitch Block 4:
Michael Mak / Lynn E. Fiellin & Jun Chen
Courtesy of First Republic Bank

Mak: Biophysical Informatics Solutions: An Integrated Digital Platform for Characterizing Biological Specimen

Fiellin/Chen: Building a Data/Risk Analytics Dashboard to Identify At-Risk Teens Through Videogame Play
Judge Awards
Courtesy of Shipman & Goodwin
Therapeutic and Medical Device Pitches
1st Place: Akiko Iwasaki

Pan-antiviral Antibodies
2nd Place: Jaime Grutzendler

Reversing Axonal Spheroids and Conduction Defects in Alzheimer's Disease
3rd Place: Gloria Huang

De Novo Pyrimidine Synthesis Inhibition for the treatment of ARID1A mutated ovarian cancers and other solid tumors
Digital Health Pitches
1st Place: Sophia Chheang

NLP-based Radiology Report Simplification and Summarization System
2nd Place: Al Powers

Playspace: Faster, easier, and more reliable cognitive testing in behavioral health at scale 
3rd Place: Lynn E. Fiellin & Jun Chen

Building a Data/Risk Analytics Dashboard to Identify At-Risk Teens Through Videogame Play
Save-the-Date for the Innovation Summit!
Date: May 18, 2022

Location: Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale
155 Temple Street, New Haven, CT

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