A biotech start-up company in Munich - Germany

Seeking contacts and information.

I am interested in founding a spin-off biotech company. I (we) have proprietary technology and this technology can lead quite quickly to product (health care related). On the 12th of October there will be a seminar at the BioM AG in Martinsried on pre-seed financing that is possibly available. If anyone has expertise or knowledge of this, I would be interested in touching base with you. There is a great possibility of extra support and financing from established companies in Germany and within Europe. The expertise or knowledge I (we) would be seeking is on the legal/business side and writing specific applications for major funding requests. This is not the same as basic grant writing as this needs to specify future earnings potential and applications resulting from the technology development and products.

Guests (yes, I suspect many of you have such expertise) and members are encouraged to contact me if you qualify or have contact knowledge that could benefit such an endeavor.

Warning: This is not a fly by night scheme and I need professionals and serious enquiries only.

New request: I need someone with computer animation and presentation building skills. This will incorporate stills, graphs and charts, flash and animated GIFs, voice over for various languages, image morphing and stuff I probably haven't even thought of yet. The entire length of what we want to put together would be 15-20 minutes tops.
I now have contacts to major players within Europe, but we need our presentation automatic, systematic, hydromatic and well, you know Greased Lightnin!

Ok, I just got back from a business elbow rubbing meeting with the Florida Meets Bavaria networking delegation of Life Science and other business peeps from here and there. The meeting and the evening gala included Jeb Bush, US Ambassador Timken, Christian Ude and many others. Contacts were made on all levels for our start-up adventure. Very positive indeed!

Now I have some new requests:
1) We need business cards made. Anybody out there that does this?
(I never had so many people ask for a business card in all my life.)

2) We need a catchy name. Yeah, we got something, but I don't particularly like it. We need something that means something to the everyman and doesn't have any sort of negative connotation. The biotech company will be involved in protein engineering to produce therapeutic proteins and peptides, biomarkers and proteins that glow and all this can lead to better diagnostics and treatments. Yes it is "gene engineering" in a sense, but the product will actually be a better protein. So, name that company?

Mods: could you perhaps change the title. Something like "Biotech start-up company-various forms of help and information sought". Or if you have a better idea, I'm game.

Glowing Bio-Muc?

Well, I was going to suggest Biolumin or Luminex, but those appear to already be taken. I suppose they're a bit too obvious. Bioluminous Solutions, maybe? Hm, I'll have a think and get back to you.

Edit: Haha, sorry, just realized that would give the acronym BS...tee hee...

Just out of curiosity, are your "proteins that glow" developed for contrast solutions for diagnostic imaging?

Not all the proteins we can and will work with will "glow". For diagnostic purposes, we could build a better protein for targeting cells in the human body and then that protein is labelled with a heavy metal for "contrast" to aid in diagnostic imaging. The possibilities for protein modification are endless and our deal is that we can do it faster and better.

This is what we are up to in case anyone is interested. MutaMax.
The proposal has been submitted at the end of February. It was a lot of work, but I think we have a good chance. Boss man thinks that the recent happenings with Tegenero will perhaps hinder our application, but I am not so pessimistic.

Mods: You could change the title to "Saga of a biotech start-up". I will post stuff here as we go along.

Update: Whoohoo, we passed the first phase and made it to round two. From nearly 200 applicants, we made into the final 28. Now it is all about the business plan. Help!

congrats! What name did you use?

Well, the application was rejected in the final round. Not sure yet why, but most likely because of a piss poor business plan and an unconvincing (typical German style) presentation.

Will have to look for alternative routes of financing. Anyone got a spare 10 million?

so, you never actually said what your product is... what do you actually make?!?

ps, i am a molecular biologist

We make commercially relevant proteins better or create new proteins with completely new abilities. We will be taking our platform to new sources of financing in the near future. We shall overcome this setback and the funding agency will regret their shortsightedness.

We're back!



www.protnovo.com

Now I am interested in finding someone with clinical research experience and particularly in the protein biochemistry and enzymology fields. We have a position available for an experienced senior researcher.

We are also looking for a protein biochemist post doc.