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Spring
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What was your project about?
By coming together, the Center for Advanc-
ing Innovation, the National Cancer Institute
and the Avon Foundation have created a
unique competition model. The “Breast
Cancer Start-Up Challenge” (BCSC) provides
students with an opportunity not only to
develop a business plan but the potential
to take innovative and unused technologies
developed by world-class research institutions
forward and start new companies. At a time
when approximately one in eight women is
diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in her
lifetime, this is a great initiative to advance
novel and promising technologies to the
market, whilst promoting entrepreneurship in
universities worldwide.
Our team, Radial Genomics (University of
Cambridge), was named the winner of inven-
tion #1 at the BCSC. We are developing a
flagship diagnostic product Onco
dyne
with the
potential to save over 20% of breast cancer pa-
tients from undergoing financially, emotionally,
and physically draining tests and treatments
unnecessarily, improving patient outcomes and
the overall cost-effectiveness of care.
What is your next step?
We are looking for partnerships and seed
investment for our first 18 months to conduct
retrospective studies and further develop our
product. Interested in learning more? Get in
touch at hello@radialgenomics.com. ( www.
RadialGenomics.com)
What did you like the most about IC?
What I like most about IC is the infinite
family forged there. I was on a course field
trip to Boston in April, and whilst I was plan-
ning to catch-up with a former IC classmate
(’09), I coincidentally ran into a former col-
league (’11), and unexpectedly made the ac-
quaintance of another IC alumna (’12). They
say “what a small world”; I say “IC makes the
world small”. I look forward to meeting new
members of the growing IC family, whenever
and wherever that may be!
Also, my link to IC dates back to my grand-
father’s days
. Ghazi Kraytem’s ‘53
attach-
ment to IC has continued uninterrupted over
the years. Founder of the Alumni Association
and father of three IC graduates, he actively
participates in most alumni and school func-
tions, as he has done for over three decades.
His son
Ezzat ‘84
continues the tradition
with classmate and wife
Karma ‘84
by enroll-
ing their three daughters at IC (
Randa ‘11
,
Basma
1ere, and Hind herself), and being
elected as president of the IC Alumni Associa-
tion in 2003.
Hind Kraytem’s
graduation in
October 2013
from Imperial
College
London with
an MEng in
Biomedical
Engineering
Karma Khatib Kraytem (‘84), Randa Kraytem, Ghazi Kraytem (‘53), Hind Kraytem (‘09), Ezzat Kraytem (‘84)
and Randa Kraytem (‘11).
Hind Kraytem’09
and her
team from the University
of Cambridge (UK) were
among 10 winners of the
first Breast Cancer Startup
Challenge.The idea of the
challenge is to give the
opportunity to students
and professionals to
create strategic business
plans and start new
companies to develop
and commercialize ten
inventions that will treat
breast cancer and other
diseases.
Q&A
with
Hind Kraytem