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INFOGENE

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Infogene is a portuguese start-up company that develops and markets innovative non-invasive ways of detecting cancer as early as possible, generating value from providing information concerning heath status, preventing cancer death and reducing costs in healthcare. The company has developed a non invasive home-brew test for the detection of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), the most common cause of cervical cancer, and a test for detection of colorectal and uterus cancer. The alternative to the common Pap test for HP-Virus detection was be launched on September 2007.

Infogene has been awarded important entrepreneurship and innovation prizes in the last years:

• Bio-entrepreneur of the year 2006 - by ApBio
• “Innovation prize in Health, Personal Care and Attendance - BES prize 2007€
• “BES Innovation Award 2007 - Premio BES inovacao do ano 2007”
• “Finalist of Young entrepreneur of the year 2008 - by ANJE 2008”
• This year, the R&D (Research & Development) Unit of Infogene has been awarded a QREN grant funding for the development of new projects.

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  INFOGENE added Delmar Nobre as Chief Information Offcie. (4/1/09)
  Posted 7/11/11 at 6:29am

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