Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India] September 5 (ANI/NewsVoir): OncoStem Diagnostics, an Oncology focused company that enables personalized cancer treatment has won the Startupreneur Award organized by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) in the Biotech and Pharma category, for its innovative prognostic test ‘CanAssist Breast‘.
CII‘s Startupreneur awards were started with an aim to recognize startups for excellence in cutting-edge technology and innovation, wealth creation, and employment generation.
In 2018, CII put into action its novel concept of providing the essential ‘Corporate Connect’ to start-ups. The concept is based on the premise that when a large corporate house adopts a start-up that is working in its own area or allied areas of business, then it results in a win-win for both.
These awards provide the most prestigious recognition from the corporate world to the most promising start-ups in India in various sectors.
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“It’s a great honour to receive this award and to be recognized for our innovation. This award gives us a valuable opportunity to collaborate with established corporates in the field of our work and leverage their network to ensure that our test is accessible to a larger audience,” said Dr Manjiri Bakre, CEO and Founder, OncoStem Diagnostics about the award.
OncoStem’s CanAssist Breast is a prognostic test for early-stage hormone receptor-positive breast cancer patients. It makes customized treatment possible by analyzing the patients’ tumor in-depth and providing a patient-specific report.
CanAssist Breast categorizes patients based on the risk of cancer recurrence clearly as either ‘low or high’ with no grey area in between.
This clear distinction of patients based on the risk of cancer recurrence allows doctors to devise treatment plans that are in tune with the prognosis, maintaining a balance between the benefits and side effects.
Patients who are at low risk of relapse can potentially avoid chemotherapy and its associated side-effects while patients who are at high risk of relapse would benefit from the addition of chemotherapy to their treatment regimen.
The award from CII is yet another feather in OncoStem’s cap. CanAssist Breast was also awarded the ‘Best Innovation – Cancer Risk Assessment’ by NASSCOM’s CoE’s (Centre of Excellence) Life Sciences and healthcare innovation forum (LHIF) last year.
OncoStem Diagnostics (www.oncostem.com) develops innovative multi-marker prognostic tests to enable personalized treatment of cancer patients. OncoStem was founded by Dr Manjiri Bakre in 2011.
OncoStem’s ‘CanAssist Breast‘ is an innovative, cost-effective test that can help clinicians to plan tailor-made treatment for each breast cancer patient based on tumor biology.
The risk of cancer recurrence is dependent on tumor type, stage, and on the biology of each patient’s tumor. ‘CanAssist-Breast’ determines the proteomic fingerprint of the tumor.
This information is then used by OncoStem’s proprietary machine learning-based algorithm that stratifies patients as ‘low or high’ risk for cancer recurrence.
Patients classified as ‘high-risk’ would have a greater probability of cancer recurring than those classified as low-risk. This will guide clinicians in planning treatment and help patients in understanding the prognosis of their disease.
OncoStem is currently working on similar tests for other subtypes of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. OncoStem has raised approximately USD 9 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Artiman Ventures.
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