2025 Boehringer Ingelheim Innovation Prize Heidelberg

BI Innovation Prize at Biolabs Heidelberg

Monday, February 24th, 2025, starting at 3:00 pm CET at BioLabs Heidelberg, Nikola-Tesla-Straße 1, 69124 Heidelberg.

We’re excited to welcome you to our "BI Innovation Prize" at Biolabs Heidelberg, where together we can celebrate innovation and entrepreneurship in our life science community. We look forward to joining you for an afternoon of inspiring presentations and discussions.

The day thereafter Boehringer Ingelheim will host another exciting event at EMBL Heidelberg, the Transforming Science Day, which includes a series of exquisite panels and networking sessions. The BI Innovation Prize winner will have the chance to present his scientific ideas and ambitions at our Transforming Science Day to a large audience.

Apply now for the Heidelberg Innovation Prize! You’ll get the chance to pitch your life-science project to a panel before the winner is announced at the award ceremony.

Heidelberg Transforming Science Day 2025 | Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim Innovation Prize 2025 in Heidelberg

Boehringer Ingelheim recognizes the impact biotech start-ups can have to create and sustain innovative pipelines for the pharma industry. These entrepreneurial scientists are driven by their passion to innovate and create new medicines for patients. We know that passion. And our entrepreneurial heritage, from our roots in a small factory in 1885 to today’s multi-billion-dollar global organization, has taught us the importance of nurturing young science and technology businesses.

The innovation power of young life-science companies and bio-entrepreneurs is an essential element for the discovery of the next generation of breakthrough medicines. Our Innovation Prize recognizes the challenge and dedication it takes to start a new company by supporting the innovation process and celebrating life-science entrepreneurs.

The BI Innovation Prize, which provides access to lab space and shared equipment at the Biolabs´ incubator facility in Heidelberg, Germany will be awarded during the event on Monday, February 24th, 2025. All finalists are invited to attend the BI Transforming Science Day on February 25th, 2025 at EMBL, Heidelberg, while the winner will be celebrated live on stage. To apply, see the bottom of this announcement. Qualified applicants will be invited to present their idea and our audience will choose five companies for a final, oral pitch session onsite.

Entry Requirements

We invite all inventors, early-stage innovators and spinouts, that are pursuing life-science therapeutic platform technologies and therapeutics (in any indication, any modality), to participate.

Inclusion/exclusion criteria

• Companies must be founded and have their principal place of business in Germany,
  preferably in the Heidelberg area and willing to occupy BioLabs Heidelberg

• Companies cannot be capitalized over $2 million

• Companies must not have a major partnership with another large bio-pharmaceutical
  company

• Companies must be focused on new target concepts or drug discovery in any
  therapeutic indication. Please note that CROs, diagnostics, instrument development,
  and health-IT are excluded.

How to apply

Applicants must provide a non-confidential deck of no more than seven slides, which will be used for the 5-minute pitch if successful. Slides must address unmet medical need, solution, scientific principal, key data supporting the scientific principal, overview of business case, and intellectual property.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: BY END OF BUSINESS, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7th.

Please send your application: [email protected]

EVENING AGENDA

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm CET: Arrival and Registration (General)

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm CET: Pitch Presentations

4:15 pm - 4:30 pm CET: Judging for Grand Prize

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Announcement of Winner & get-together

ALL ATTENDEES MUST BE REGISTERED VIA EVENTBRITE TO ENTER FOR THE PRIZE.

Please send your application or any other questions related to: [email protected]

Good luck – and we look forward to seeing you in Heidelberg!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

BioLabs Heidelberg (BioLabs Coworking Space GmbH), Nikola-Tesla-Straße, Heidelberg, Germany