Isabelle Musy Award: 50'000 francs for the start up BioMe
22. EPFL's Isabelle Musy Award was presented to Sandra Sulser this evening for her start-up project BioMe. The 50,000-franc award, funded by a private donor, is aimed at encouraging women to become entrepreneurs. Sandra Sulser won over the jury with poise, enthusiasm and a solid project. And she walked away with a check for 50,000 francs to fund her start-up, which is developing a new treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases. "We will use this money to quickly validate our concept and, if it proves successful, launch the start-up," said Sulser, a biologist by training whose project has also received funding from the Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT). Intestinal flora in capsules A therapy that only emerged in recent years aims to prevent and heal intestinal disorders associated with the bacterial ecosystem.