Frankfurt's founder awarded the Darboven Idea Promotion Prize 2009
Allocated with 7.000 Euros, the 2nd place of the Idea Promotion Prize was awarded this year to the founder of the Frankfurt Biotech start-up company bio.logis GmbH, Ms. Prof. Dr. med. Daniela Steinberger. An innovative business idea, 21 new jobs created, and the prospect of economic success for the company convinced the expert jury.
Albert Darboven, owner and Managing Director of Hamburg's traditional company JJ Darboven GmbH & Co. KG presented the award for one of the best founding concepts from a woman in Germany at the Hotel Atlantic Kempinski Hamburg ceremonial in early November.
“The award reassures us of our innovative approach and business model, which is to prepare and make relevant genetic information accessible to the public”, states Ms. Daniela Steinberger, founder of the FIZ Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Center based, bio.logis GmbH. “This would not have been possible without a competent and well-coordinated team, who, with great commitment, consistently shaped the basic idea”.
In July 2009, Daniela Steinberger presented her business idea to the prestigious Darboven Idea Promotion Prize. As part of a multi-stage selection procedure, the new entrepreneur went up against 188 submitted concepts. A panel of legal, tax and economic experts, and representatives from politics and public institutions examined both the business plan as well as the current economic indicators of the company.
About bio.logis GmbH
The FIZ Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Center based biotech start-up company, bio.logis GmbH, specializes in the provision of information and genetic diagnostics. The 21-member team consists of very experienced physicians, scientists, technical staff, IT experts and economists. In order to be able to make genetic information available to individuals, bio.logis is currently developing a novel genetic information service known as Personal Genomics Services (PGS), based on its expertise in diagnostic genetics. With personal genomics services, bio.logis will be able to offer an internet portal with medically relevant genetic studies, whose results will provide the basis for individual health decision making. In partnership with IBM, an innovative approach for managing complex biological and medical data has been developed for this purpose. This will also provide private customers with access to their genetic information.
About the Darboven Idea Promotion Prize
The Darboven Idea Promotion Prize has been awarded exclusively to women since 1997. It awards young women entrepreneurs, who have worked as freelancers for no longer than three years, for innovative and commercially successful business models. The criteria include the degree of novelty of the business idea, personal commitment and the number of newly created or anticipated jobs.
“The creativity and motivation of women is an important engine for the economy, which Germany can not do without”, states Albert Darboven, owner and Managing Director of Hamburg's traditional company JJ Darboven. This is why the coffee roaster and donor created the Idea Darboven Prize.
The jury of the Darboven Idea Promotion Prize 2009 under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schipanski, president of the state parliament of Thuringia Include:
- Dr. Willi Hausmann, National Managing Director (retired) of the CDU Germany
- Norbert Leopoldseder, Tax Consultant
- Dr. Anita Plantikow, Managing Partner of NORDUM Institut für Umwelt und Analytik GmbH
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Volker Schaub, Lawyer (Chair)
- Dr. Henning Voscherau, 1st Mayor (retired) of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- Prof. Dr. Karin von Welck, Senator of Culture of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- Dr. Ilona Funke und Dr. Barbara Mayer, SpheroTec GmbH, Munich (Winner of the Darboven Idea Promotion Price 2007; Advisory member)
Press contact
Dr. phil. Maike Post
Altenhöferallee 3
60438 Frankfurt am Main
T +49 (0) 69-530 8437-0
E-Mail: maike.post@bio.logis.de