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Scaffold Biotech at National Event on Tick Control

Scaffold Biotech at National Event on Tick Control

Agustín Correa and Matías Machado, the scientists who founded the start-up Scaffold Biotech, represented the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo at the National Tick Control and Management Update conference, which was organized by the Uruguayan Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries in early August. Scaffold Biotech is one of the start-ups...

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LAB+ opens second international call for start-ups and scientific projects

LAB+ opens second international call for start-ups and scientific projects

LAB+ Company Builder has launched a new international call for scientists with an original, disruptive, and innovative project with significant commercial potential.  This is the second call since the creation of LAB+, which already boasts a portfolio of four companies: B4-RNA, Guska, LoCBio and Scaffold Biotech.  Selected start-ups in this call...

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World Creativity and Innovation Day

World Creativity and Innovation Day

April 21 marks World Creativity and Innovation Day, created by the UN in 2017 to raise awareness of the role these aspects play in human development. How is creativity and innovation applied in science? How can we generateknowledge and transform it into something useful for society? LAB+ Company Builder promotes creativity and innovation in all...

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Forbes Uruguay – Interview with Carlos Batthyány about LAB+ and the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo

Búsqueda – International call for startups, interview with Carlos Batthyány and Paul Elberse

En Perspectiva – Agustín Correa and Matías Machado, from Scaffold Biotech: Uruguayan company works with protein engineering to reach a ‘new frontier in vaccination’.

Modo País (Channel 5) – Guska, created by Pilar Moreno and Gonzalo Moratorio.

En Perspectiva – Felipe Trajtenberg, from LoCBio: reprogramming bacteria to treat colorectal cancer.

La Diaria – What do the first four start-ups of the LAB+ seek to develop?

Telemundo  (Channel 12) – Scaffold Biotech: more efficient vaccines for animals.

En Perspectiva – Director of the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo talks about the LAB+ iniciative and Gonzalo Moratorio explains the science behind the start-up Guska.

Subrayado (Channel 10) – LAB+ closed its first financing cycle.

Radio Carve – Director of the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo talks about LAB+.

La Diaria – Conversations with the first four biotech start-ups funded by LAB+.

El País (Business) – Institut Pasteur de Montevideo presented its first four start-ups.

Uruguay XXI – Institut Pasteur de Montevideo presented its first four start-ups.

Telenoche (Channel 4) – Juan Pablo Tosar talks about the start-up B4-RNA.

Ambito – The Institut Pasteur will invest US$25M in Uruguayan start-ups.

El Observador – Four start-ups from the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo obtained financing for US$ 5 million: which are they?

Telenoche (Channel 4) – Institut Pasteur de Montevideo presented its LAB+ Company Builder initiative.

Montevideo Portal – The Institut Pasteur de Montevideo presents a program to support scientific-technological companies.