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The Patient Innovation Awards are back!
A statement from the Patient Innovation
Advisory Board
"Patient Innovation (PI) empowers patients, caregivers, and
collaborators by giving them a place where they can share
their solutions. The PI Awards have been established to
celebrate the innovators from our community who stood out
with the impact and novelty of their solutions. In previous
editions of PI Awards, we celebrated thirteen innovators.
This year, we faced a new challenge of analyzing more than
400 new solutions and reward the ones who found the strength
to overcome their health problems and were able innovate.
That’s what is inspiring us all. We added a new category
“Developing Country Innovator” and selected four innovators
for the 3rd edition of PI Awards. Our laureates win the
laurels for innovating, sharing and improving lives while
facing adversity and challenges. And the 3rd PI Awards
laureates are:
• Developing
Country Innovator Category: Gerárd Niyondiko
(Burkina Faso), with Faso Soap;
• Caregiver
Innovator Category: Lise Pape
(Denmark), with Path Finder;
• Caregiver
Innovator Category: Bodo Hoenen
(USA), with Robotic Arm Orthosis;
• Patient
Innovator Category: Risa Basile
(France), with Handiplat.
Warm congratulations to all the Laureates !”
The Advisory Board of Patient Innovation:
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Aaron Ciechanover, Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2004);
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Eric von Hippel, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT);
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Katherine Strandburg, Professor, New York University;
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Lee Fleming, Professor, University of California, Berkeley;
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Richard Roberts, Chief Scientific Officer, New England
Biolabs (Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1993);
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Robert Langer, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT).
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The 3rd Patient Innovation Awards Ceremony @
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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The ceremony for the third edition will be held on November
28th, at 2 pm, at the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, in the context of the
conference “Opening up to a new era
of Social Innovation”. The conference is jointly
organized by the European Commission, the Portuguese
Government and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and will
be hosted by Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner
for Research, Science and Innovation, Marianne Thyssen, European
Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and
Labour Mobility, Maria Manuel Leitão Marques,
Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative
Modernisation of Portugal, and Isabel Mota, President of Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation. It will also have the presence of
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Portuguese
Republic.
If you are interested in joining us for the Patient
Innovation ceremony and the conference, you can register here.
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3rd Patient Innovation Awards Ceremony Program
November, 28th, 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Opening remarks |
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Pedro
Oliveira and Helena
Canhão, Founders
and Project Leaders,
Patient
Innovation
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3rd
Patient Innovation Award Laureates: |
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Category
“Caregiver
Innovator”:
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Laureates:
Lise
Pape
(Denmark), for
Path
Finder
Bodo
Hoenen
(USA), for
Robotic
Arm
Brace
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Awards
delivered
by:
Carlos
Moedas, European Commissioner for
Research,
Science
and
Innovation
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Category
“Patient
Innovator”:
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Laureate:
Rita
Basile
(France), for Handiplat
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Award
delivered
by:
Isabel
Mota, President
of
the
Calouste
Gulbenkian
Foundation
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Category
“Developing
Country
Innovator”:
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Laureate:
Gérard
Niyondiko
(Burkina
Faso), for
Faso
Soap
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Award
delivered
by:
Manuel
Heitor, Minister
of
Science,
Technology
and
Higher
Education
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Closing remarks |
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Manuel
Heitor, Minister
of Science, Technology
and Higher
Education
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About the Awards
The Patient Innovation Awards have been established to
celebrate the innovators from our community who stood out
with the impact and novelty of their solutions.
Every year, we gather with our Advisory Board in order to select
the laureates for the Patient Innovation Awards. On October
13th 2017, the Advisory Board met at MIT in
Cambridge (MA) and selected the innovators who are
inspirational role model due to the creation and diffusion
of solutions with both great potential and impact to improve
the quality of life of others.
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The 3rd
Patient Innovation Awards laureates
The 3rd Patient Innovation Awards include a new
category: Developing Country Innovator, which honors
patients or caregivers from developing countries that were
able to develop high-impact solutions to help them, and the
people in their communities, cope with their health
condition.
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Gérard Niyondiko (Burkina Faso)
Category:
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Developing Country Innovator
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Innovation:
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Faso Soap
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The
story: Gérard almost died of malaria and saw 6 of
his 12 siblings die of this disease. The only way to prevent
the mosquito bite and the malaria infection is through the
use of mosquito nets and insecticides. The problem is that
these solutions are not economically viable for people who
live in poverty. Motivated by the goal of protecting his own
community from the malaria mosquito, Gérard created a soap
made of ingredients extracted from local plants (African
marigold, shea butter, lemongrass, etc.). The soap makes the
mosquitos stay away for 6 hours, and is an affordable
solution for all families in developing countries. The Faso
Soap is expected to save 100.000 lives by 2020.
About
the laureate: Gérard is an engineer who graduated
at 2iE engineering school. He also owns a Bachelor in
Chemistry, field that he taught for 7 years. He has been
technical manager in the beverage industry in Burundi.
Living in Burkina Faso, he is the founder and R&D Director
at Faso Soap. Please click here to know more.
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Lise Pape (Denmark)
Category:
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Caregiver innovator
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Innovation:
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Path Finder
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The
story: Lise Pape’s father has struggled with
Parkinson’s disease for more than 10 years, which is the
reason why Lise developed Path Finder. This condition is
related to episodes of freezing of gait, which leads to the
helpless fall of patients with this condition. Lise’s father
tried to cope with this problem by asking his wife for help,
by telling him what would be his next step, when she saw he
was freezing. Lise was afraid that her father would fall
when his wife was not around, so she created a device that
projects a light on the floor, helping understand what would
be the next step.
About
the laureate: Lise is the Founder of Walk With
Path and the inventor of two products. She holds a double
Masters in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal
College of Art and Imperial College London. Prior to that,
she worked for Invest in Denmark at the Royal Danish Embassy
in London, where she was responsible for attracting foreign
companies to Denmark within the sectors of life sciences and
clean technologies. She has also worked in online
advertising for AOL's Advertising.com and in finance for
J.P. Morgan. Lise holds a BSc in Human Biology from King's
College London. Lise won 19 awards regarding design, health
and innovation since 2014. Please click here to know more.
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Bodo Hoenen (USA)
Category:
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Caregiver Innovator
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Innovation:
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Robotic Arm Orthosis
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The
story: Bodo Hoenen developed a robotic orthosis
for his daughter’s arm, Lorelei who and suffers from acute
flaccid myelitis, a neurologic disease that damaged her arm.
The orthosis integrates functionalities of automatic
learning that allows to identify when the child wants to
raise her arm, following her movement. Lorelei used the
robotic orthosis to make physiotherapy so that she could
regain mobility, and after a short period, she was able to
grab light objects.
About
the laureate: Bodo Hoenen is a social
entrepreneur and EdTech innovator working on providing
education to the most underserved children. Motivated by his
young children's self-directed learning he founded Dev4X and
hopes to create a future where every child can learn
anything they need, even if they don't have access to formal
schooling. Bodo is currently working on projects aimed at
empowering the most underserved children, empowering
children to take on the UN SDGs, developing a prosthetic arm
for my daughter. Please click here to know more.
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Rita Basile (France)
Category:
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Patient Innovator
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Innovation:
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Handiplat
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The
story: In 1997 Rita Basile created Handiplat
after losing the movement of an arm for several months due
to a work accident. Besides having to adapt to a new
physical condition, Rita couldn’t bear the idea of being
dependent on someone to eat and cook. As she was able to use
her other arm, she decided to create a plastic tray that
allows her to immobilize the food so that she can cut it
without asking for someone’s help. A little later she met
Matthieu, a young man with an amputated arm. Rita told him
about the set, which he also tested, and he found it very
interesting and useful. That's what gave Rita the idea to
market it.
About
the laureate: Rita Basile is the inventor of the
Handiplat, a product that is on the market since 2013. Since
then, the inventor won several awards: Lépine contest in
2011, Handicap gold medal at the Brussels Innova show in
2013, the medal of the city of Paris at the Lépine
competition in 2014. And the latest in November 2015: the
prize of excellence at the 1st Living Lab Paillon 2020
Trophy of the Center for Innovation and Uses in
Health. Please click here to know more
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Take a look at the previous
editions
In
the first edition of the PI Awards, six winners were
recognized. The ceremony was held at Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian in July 2015.
In the second edition, seven laureates were recognized. The
ceremony was held at the Web Summit in November 2016.
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Patient Innovation European Tour
While we are celebrating our winners, our Patient Innovation
European tour keeps on going! The “Beyond the lab: The DIY science
revolution”, is an exhibition about do-it-yourself
innovations, which features Patient Innovation and seven of our innovations on display!
The exhibition was curated by the Science Museum in London
and opened in Bonn (Germany), in 2016, and has then visited
24 European countries (and will visit 5 more). The
exhibition has already received over 1 million visitors.
Beyond The Lab is now open at:
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Institute of Social Innovation, in Vilnius (Lithuania);
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Centre For Research and Analysis, in Sofia (Bulgaria);
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Science Gallery Gama - Uskupení Tesla, in Pardubice (Czech
Republic);
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Discovery Center Continium, in Kerkrade (Netherlands).
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Shuttleworth Foundation supports Patient Innovation
We are happy to announce that Pedro Oliveira has received a
Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant for his work on Patient
innovation. The Shuttleworth Foundation is a social investor
founded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth in
2001, that provides funding to dynamic leaders who are at
the forefront of social change.
The Shuttleworth Foundation grants are awarded by nomination
only, from Shuttleworth Fellows and we are grateful to
Catharina Maracke (Keio University & Berkman Klein Center
for Internet & Society at Harvard University) for her
nomination.
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Patient
Innovation (Non-profit Association) is a spin-off from
collaborative research conducted at Católica Lisbon School
of Business and Economics, Nova Medical School, MIT Sloan
School of Management and Carnegie Mellon University.
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