Post by Liesa Doppler

✨And the winners are... This year, it was my turn to organize the international life science competition 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 as part of the LISA - Life Science Austria program by Austria Wirtschaftsservice on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism. After many months of competition across two phases - including 189 pre-jury reviews, individual coaching sessions for the finalist teams, and a full day of pitching in front of our esteemed final jury - we finally brought the top-ranked projects to the big stage this week! Heartfelt congratulations to this year's winners: 🎉𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 - Alexander Pekarsky, Stefan Kittler 🎉𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗦 - Christian Taucher, PhD, Jason Golan 🎉𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 - Hans Maria Heÿn 🎉 Syntropic - Francesca Giovanetti As we also celebrated the 25th anniversary of Best of Biotech, originally initiated by Sonja Hammerschmid, we took a moment to look back at the journey so far. Turns out that many of today’s successful biotech and medtech companies have crossed paths with “BoB” at some point along the way. A big thank you to our main sponsors Takeda, Boehringer Ingelheim and Erste Bank und Sparkasse, evaluators, jury members, ticket sponsors, network partners, agency partners and my amazing colleagues who supported me every step of the way! With Florian Frauscher, Gerfried Brunner, Elisabeth Klager, Manfred Rieger, Denisa Alexandra Lazarescu, Stefan Krahulec, Maria Antonietta Impagnatiello, Sabine Hönigsberger, Tanja Spennlingwimmer, Maggie Childs, Joachim Rothe, Angelika Dr. Weinländer-Mölders, Reinhard Krickl, Michael Wolzt, Georg Kääb, Vicki Loise, Anna Weihs, Eva Maria Beck and many more! It was a blast! #BestOfBiotech #BoB2025 📸 vogus - Wolfgang Voglhuber