Transfer Center Promotes Innovative Product Development

Prototyping grants #2: Healthy sugar, digital health solutions, and improved cancer screening. These teams will receive a prototyping grant in Round 2: Sweeternative (Jorge de Heuvel, Jannick Dülberg, Marcel Hövels, André Neff); All-in-One Test (Thomas Mayr, Ines Gütgemann, Glen Kristiansen, Damian Ralser - not pictured: Alexander Mustea, Andreas Buness, Anshupa Sahu); Trackognize (Christoph Helmstaedter, Kris Leipzig, Jacqueline Lohmann, Vivian Radicke, Thorsten Rings) [from left]. Sweeternative | Rolf Müller (UKB) | Trackognize all images in original size . Is there a healthy alternative to sugar? How can I measure changes to my mental acuity? And how can cancer prevention be made more reliable? These questions are at the heart of three innovative validation projects- "Sweeternative," "Trackognize," and "HPV & Cervix all-in-one Test"- that are receiving funding from the prototyping grant's application round #2 of the Transfer Center enaCom. The teams from the University of Bonn and the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) are each receiving a prototyping grant to develop their innovative research findings to market readiness. Calls for the grants with up to 50,000 euros in funding are regularly posted by the Transfer Center. Sweeternative - A healthy alternative to sugar Sugar that won't make you fat-who doesn't dream of that? Dr. Marcel Hövels, André Neff, Jorge de Heuvel and Jannick Dülberg are developing a sweet-tasting form of fiber that can be consumed as an alternative sweetener.