BioRiver Boost! 2021: 1st Place: DNTOX

DNTOX is a cell biological screening laboratory, which allows the chemical and pharmaceutical industry to screen substances
and ingredients for their potential to cause developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) in a human-based in vitro system that complies
to current regulatory standards.
About BioRiver Boost!
BioRiver Boost! is a competition addressing very young start-ups developing a product or service for the biotechnology and life science industry. The jury’s selection of the finalists is based on fixed criteria such as customer benefit, degree of innovation of the technology, importance and size of the target market as well as the experience of the team and the quality of the development and financial plan. In a two-stage process, a jury first selects the eight finalists out of the pool of applications. The finalists then need to present their projects and programs with industry experts in the form of an "elevator pitch".

About BioRiver – Life Science im Rheinland e.V.
The promotion of start-up projects and start-ups has a long tradition in BioRiver-Life Science im Rheinland e. V. and, therefore, receives special attention. The vast majority of the more than 60 life science companies in this association, also including industry giants such as Bayer, Lonza, Miltenyi Biotec, QIAGEN and Grünenthal, emerged from spin-offs from Rhineland universities. The managing directors and management of the companies support BioRiver e. V. as chairmen, as members of the board of directors and in the working groups. BioRiver in total has over 110 member organizations. With the BioRiver Boost!, introduced in 2014, BioRiver e. V. aims to further strengthen the specialist sector in the Rhineland region as well as to provide access to leading specialists in science, industry and business development and to promote the market entry of promising products and processes.