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USPTO Announces
Cancer Moonshot Challenge Winners
Washington— The U.S. Commerce Department’s United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the winners of the USPTO Cancer
Moonshot Challenge. The challenge
was launched by the USPTO in August as part of the White House Cancer
Moonshot Task Force, which aims to speed up patient-focused cancer treatments, increase
patient access to clinical trials and therapies, and align public-private
policies investments to improve the ability to prevent cancer and detect it at
an early stage.
The Cancer Moonshot Challenge enlisted the
public’s help to leverage the USPTO’s intellectual property data, often an
early indicator of meaningful research and development, and combine it with
other economic and funding statistics. Using data sets released through the USPTO
Developer Hub, participants used analytic tools, processes and
complimentary data sets to build rich visualizations of intellectual property
data, which can illuminate trend lines for new insights.
“The USPTO recognizes that by enlisting the
public’s assistance through the USPTO Cancer Moonshot Challenge, we can
identify new and creative ways to fight cancer and work towards breakthroughs
in treatment,” said Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee. “I’m inspired by how private companies, universities,
institutions and foundations, have all stepped up to collaborate and
contribute. By harnessing the power of patent data,
we are changing how medical and research data can be shared and used to reach
new breakthroughs.”
Following is a list of the Cancer Moonshot
Challenge Winners:
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1st
Place: Dolcera visualized how
the genetics and epidemiology of cancer relate to
levels of research funding, patenting, and clinical testing. Collecting and combining valuable data from multiple
sources, Dolcera provided engaging visualizations that offer clear and
meaningful insights regarding cancer research priorities and breakthrough
technologies in treatment and diagnostics.
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2nd
Place: Booz Allen Hamilton and Omnity constructed and
visualized networks of cancer-related patents and federal research grants based
on NIH co-funding and the degree of linguistic similarity between patent
documents. The solution depicts how the effects of one federal research grant
are multiplied through the dissemination of knowledge and discoveries in an
interconnected community of researchers.
Following is a list of the Cancer Moonshot
Challenge Honorable Mentions:
The USPTO, in tandem with other
Moonshot Task Force partners, will look at further ways to use the findings and build on data focused efforts that the
initiative has unleashed. These findings will empower the
federal government—as well as the medical, research, and data communities—to
make more precise funding and policy decisions based on the commercialization
lifecycle of the most promising treatments, and maximize U.S. competitiveness
in cancer investments.
The Cancer Moonshot Challenge comes on the
heels of the USPTO’s Patents
4 Patients program, which was launched in July and aims to cut in half
the time it takes to review patent applications in cancer therapy. For more
information about the Moonshot Initiative, visit the White House Cancer Moonshot
Task Force webpage.
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