On June 21, 2022, the European Patent Office (EPO) announced the winners of this year’s prestigious “European Inventor’s Award”. This prize, which recognizes the creativity of inventors, has been awarded annually since 2006 in different categories: industry, research, non-EPO members, small and medium-sized enterprises and life-time achievement.<\/p>\n
In the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) category, Swiss researcher Madiha Derouazi is the winner, along with French researcher Elodie Belnoue and their team, for the invention “Therapeutic vaccine platform to treat cancer”.<\/p>\n
The 2022 winners for the other categories are as follows (Source EPO):<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Industry: Jaan Leis, Mati Arulepp and Anti Perkson (Estonia) \u2013 \u201cSuperior carbon-based materials for ultracapacitors\u201d;<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Research: Claude Grison (France) – “Decontamination of polluted soils with metal-eating plants “;<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Non EPO members: Donald Sadoway (Canada\/USA) – “Liquid metal batteries for storing renewable energy”;<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lifetime Achievement: Katalin Karik\u00f3 (Hungary\/USA) – “Modified mRNA for lifesaving vaccines and therapies”.<\/p>\n
The winner of the People’s Choice Award, selected from among the finalists based on votes from Internet users, is this year Elena Garc\u00eda Armada (Spain) for the “World’s first adaptable robotic exoskeleton for children”.<\/p>\n
It is recalled that Switzerland had already been awarded in 2021 in the research category thanks to the work of inventor Wendelin Stark (Switzerland) in tandem with Robert N. Grass (Austria) for a novel method of storing data on DNA.<\/p>\n
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