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Win £100k/$150k in non-dilutive funding + free lab space for your business

Bristol-Myers Squibb is pleased to be a global partner of this year’s OneStart competition.

As a global Diversified Specialty BioPharma, we are expanding the frontiers of biomedical research – bringing new medicines, new delivery systems and new hope to patients around the world who have significant unmet medical needs.

BMS has discovered, developed and delivered many new medicines to treat cancer, serious mental illness, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease, organ transplant, diabetes and immuno-oncology. We are also expanding our efforts to other diseases such as Fibrosis and Genetically Defined Diseases where the science beckons and the patient need is evident.

The opportunities are endless. That is why we are pleased to be working with SR One and the Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable to help early-stage entrepreneurs translate academic breakthroughs into commercial opportunities by moving their best ideas forward.

We are sure you have your eyes on the grand prize. Don’t overlook the opportunity to refine your business plans and receive extensive mentoring from industry experts from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Takeda Ventures, GSK, Roche, McKinsey, and others. Each team that reaches the semi-finals (70 in total) will receive mentoring.

We are sure you will agree there are few opportunities for life science entrepreneurs to tap into this level of experience. Get involved and let’s start something new together.

The deadline for the first-round online application is Monday, 1 December 2014. Learn more at the OneStart website.