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17 November 2017

PSI spin-off GratXray wins Swiss Technology Award 2017

Research Using Synchrotron Light Human Health

A spin-off from PSI has received this year's Swiss Technology Award: The young company GratXray is developing a new method for early diagnosis of breast cancer. The prize was announced and awarded at yesterday's Swiss Innovation Forum.

The Swiss Technology Award in the Inventors category goes to the PSI spin-off GratXray. Accepting the prize, from left to right: Marco Stampanoni, Zhentian Wang, Martin Stauber (CEO of GratXray), and Giorgio Travaglini (head of Technology Transfer at PSI). (Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute)
The Swiss Technology Award in the Inventors category goes to the PSI spin-off GratXray. Accepting the prize, from left to right: Marco Stampanoni, Zhentian Wang, Martin Stauber (CEO of GratXray), and Giorgio Travaglini (head of Technology Transfer at PSI). (Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute)

The Swiss Technology Award is considered Switzerland's most significant technology prize and annually honours the best technological developments and innovations with high market potential in each of three categories: Inventors, Start-ups, and Innovation Leaders. Swiss companies as well as projects that were developed in Switzerland are eligible to compete. The spin-off GratXray received the prize in the Inventors category, in which young Swiss start-ups as well as innnovative business ideas with high market potential can qualify. In a multi-step application procedure, GratXray won out over its competitors.

GratXray is a spin-off of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich. The firm's co-founders are PSI researcher and ETH Zurich professor Marco Stampanoni and his colleague Zhentian Wang; the managing director is Martin Stauber. GratXray focuses on a new method for early diagnosis of breast cancer: For this purpose the spin-off is developing a computer tomography system that is unique worldwide, which in practice will be pain-free for patients in comparison with conventional mammography and will, through highly precise three-dimensional imaging, enable earlier diagnosis of breast cancer and reduce false diagnoses. Over the next two years, a prototype of a better mammography system is expected to be developed.

The presentation of the major prize took place at yesterday's Swiss Innovation Forum in Basel, with more than 1,000 prominent people from business, science, and politics in attendance. Among the finalists for the Swiss Technology Award was Araris, a PSI spin-off (in formation) founded by Philipp Spycher from PSI's Biology and Chemistry Division on the basis of Spycher's business idea in the area of development and optimisation of drugs for the treatment of cancer.

Text: Paul Scherrer Institute/Stefanie Wiedner


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(Last updated in May 2017)

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