Cristiane Quental
Member of Fiocruz's Entrepreneurship Programm (EP) coordination group
Fiocruz - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
We help scientists transform their health research results into products / services, and exploit them through the creation of spin-offs.
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About me
Economist, MBA and PhD in technology and innovation management. Working at Fiocruz since 1996, having occupied various positions related to innovation management in the Technology Transfer Unit and in the Planning Department. Participated in the coordination of the Master's course "Science, technology and innovation management in the health sector" at the National School of Public Health/Fiocruz for 12 years. Coordinated Fiocruz's cooperation agreements with France/Europe. Research in the fields of health industrial complex, health R&D, clinical research, management of research institutes, innovation through entrepreneurship.
Now dedicated to the creation and implementation of an Entrepreneurship Program at Fiocruz.
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Fiocruz is a health research institute, attached to the Brazilian Ministry of Health. We are present in almost all Brazilian States, so that we can tackle the country's diversity, as the health landscape is concerned. Closely related to the research activity is education: we offer masters and PhD's programs in many health fields. We also have two hospitals - one for infectious diseases and one for women and children - as well as several outpatient clinics.
Although we produce vaccines, diagnostic kits and medicines, we cannot take to market all the research results we achieve. We do have a Technology Transfer Unit that offer some of these results (often patented) to be licensed to companies interested, but recently the Entrepreneurship Program (EP) was created as an additional institutional effort to transform research results into products / services, ready to enter the market and benefit the health system.
We train and support the scientists to lead this process and create a spin-off at the end, to market the product / service developed. We have already supported the foundation of three spin-offs: one working in the digital health field (Digital Care 2 You), one marketing neuro-assessment services (Cybmind), and one finalizing the tests for a cancer diagnostic through blood samples (Hylla Biotech).