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Report

2016- 2017

BIOTECHNOLOGY

ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDENT

TEAMS

BEST - 2016

8th Edition

February 19 - 23, 2017

Manesar, NCR

Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises

123 C 16th Main Road 5th Cross

4th Block Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sl.No. Content Highlights Pages

Biotechnology Enterpreneurship Student Team (BEST) 2016

1 Introduction 3

2 Pre- Workshop Arrangements 3

3 Workshop Summary 6

4 Photographs 9

BIOINVEST 2016

5 Introduction 15

6 Pre- Workshop Arrangements 15

7 BEST Winners Team Presentations 16

8 Business Plan Presentation by Start-up Companies 20

9 Event Summary 23

10 Photographs 23

11 Annexure I- BEST’16 Concept Notes 25

12 Annexure II- BEST’16 Agenda for Workshop 27

13 Annexure III- BEST’16 Feedback 34

14 Annexure IV- BIOINVEST Agenda for Workshop 40

15 Acknowledgement 41

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Teams Best

ID

Project Name Institute and

State

Sl

No.

Name

Team 1 02 D’Strand™:

Effective

bioremediation of

hair waste

Shiv Nadar

University, Uttar

Pradesh

1 R Ayana

2 Dandugudumula Ramu

3 Garima Singh

4 Priyadharshini R Alagarraj

5 Pinaki Saha

Team 2 03 Algal Bio plastic

for Automobile

Applications

(ABAA)

Sathyabama

University,

Tamil Nadu

1 Arun Govind M

2 Caroline Joshi

3 Sree Samanvitha K

4 Santhosh A

5 Nishant Gaurav

Introduction

BEST-India (Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Student Teams) is a Programme aimed at encouraging young postgraduate students in developing biotechnology entrepreneurship by exposing them to issues involved in commercialization of bio-science. The programme is successfully held for the past 7 years. Programme is a much awaited forum for young B.E/ B. Tech, postgraduate and doctoral students in life sciences to realize their entrepreneurial dreams.

The Programme is sponsored by The Department of Biotechnology, (www.dbtindia.nic.in) Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and is executed and managed by Association of

Biotechnology Led Enterprises, ABLE – India (www.ableindia.in).

Pre Workshop Arrangements

A nationwide Call for Concepts in the area of Life Sciences that have commercialization potential was announced in national dailies, as well as through posters and brochures sent out to all academic Institutes and colleges. The last date for receiving the concept notes was November, 2016. The Students had to create teams comprising of 5 members, identify a team leader and submit a Concept Note based on a scientific idea that had commercialization potential.

Out of 37 Concept Notes, 20 of them were found to be eligible in pre-screening which were received from

Institutes all across India. These 20 Concept Notes were short listed by the Jury members, a panel comprising of eminent persons with scientific knowledge and from the Investment sector. The Jury and the

speakers were Dr. P.M.Murali, Dr. Shrikumar Suryanarayanan, Mr. Ravi Bhola, Mr. Utkarsh Palnitkar, Mr.

Sohang Chatterjee, Dr. Prahalad Achutarao, Dr. Maloy Ghosh, Mr. GS Krishnan, Dr. K.K. Narayanan, Mr

K.Vijayaraghavan, Mr. N.Suresh, Mr. Goutam Das, Mr. Subramani Ramachandrappa and Mr. Vishal Gandhi. They were from academia, industry, scientific and investor community, each expert in their

respective fields. The Concept Notes were evaluated for Innovativeness of the idea, Techno economic

feasibility and scalability of the idea, Commercialization & Market potential of the idea, Clarity of communication. The Jury short listed 20 teams from different universities i.e. ICT Maharashtra, Shiv Nadar

University Uttar Pradesh, Sathybama University Tamil Nadu, St. Xavier's College. Maharashtra, Shoolini

University, Himachal Pradesh, Rajalakshmi Engineering College Tamil Nadu , Amity Institute Uttar

Pradesh, Anna Univ. Tamil Nadu, Vellore Institute of Technology Tamil Nadu, BIT-Mesra Jharkhand were

participated in Manesar, NCR from February 19th to 23th, 2017.

List of Top 20 Teams:

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Team 3 04 REAflaB1TM –

Rapid and Economic

Aflatoxin B1

detection kit

ICT, Maharashtra 1 Santosh Devraj Pradhan

2 Deepanshu Garg

3 Sruthy Joy Thanakudam

4 Saaylee Danait

5 Chandrahas Vishwasrao

Team 4 06 Development of

colorimetric sensor

for the

measurement of

chronic wound

biomarker

Amity

University,

Uttar Pradesh

1 Vaibhav Raina

2 Debanjan Kundu

3 Shweta Parmer

4 Nikita Sehgal

5 Ankur Anand

Team 5 07 Peck –Filter St. Xavier's

College.

Maharashtra

1 Jay Doshi

2 Niral D'Silva

3 Namrata Kanojia

4 Percival D'Gama

5 Minoshka Jones

Team 6 11 Diagnosis of coeliac

disease through

luciferase

immunoprecipitation

systems (LIPS) based

assay

ICT,

Maharashtra

1 Sarayu Pai

2 Malvika Gursahani

3 Snehal Mestry

4 Nitin Gawali

5 Manik Bainwad

Team 7 13 μEnTestinaTM: ICT, Maharashtra 1 Manish Gore

2 Prachi Bangde

3 Kritika Gupta

4 Ganesh Gaikwad

5 Sharwari Ghodke

Team 8 14 Electrochemical

DNA biosensor for

the diagnosis of

Scrub Typhus

Shoolini

University,

Himachal

Pradesh

1 Ajay Kumar Chhantyal

2 Shubham Poudyal

3 Deepika Thakur

4 Preeti Koul

5 Anjali Kashyap

Team 9 16 Towards the

development of a

better, safe,

environment friendly

method to purify

water using Moringa

oleifera (MO)

Shoolini

University,

Himachal

Pradesh

1 Amanpreet Kaur Virk

2 Tanvi Gupta

3 Chandresh Kumari

4 Abhishek Bhardwaj

5 Swati

Team 10 17 Treat water from

home, at home; A

solution to purify

domestic waste

water.

Rajalakshmi

Engineering

College,

TamilNadu

1 Madhumita S

2 Gayathri A

3 Nivetha Shreen

4 Gayatri R

5 Anamika Sharma

Team 11 19 AQUALIBLE: A

superefficient

product for water

ICT,

Maharashtra

1 Suraj Abhimanyu Muke

2 Vaibhavi Vijay Peshattiwar

3 Aakruti Arun Kaikini

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nourishment and

management.

4 Somnath Bhupal Patil

5 Dattatrya Ganpat Sirsat

Team 12 20 Nano-cellulose

water purifiers-

The next version

purifiers

MGM's Institute of

Biosciences and

Technology,

Maharashtra

1 Aishwarya Dattatray Padhye

2 Gargi Deepak Deshmukh

3 Eesha Vasudev Khole

4 Meenakshi Shrikrishna Mishra

5 Dr. Nilesh Paul

Team 13 22 BESTy Washing

Machine - The

laundry device that

helps us reuse water

Amity Institute,

Uttar Pradesh

1 Ashiya Gillani

2 Sanjana Varshney

3 Vasvee Sharma

4 Sanya Behl

5 Khushboo Bhutani

Team 14 23 A simple, rapid,

ready to use, point

of care, visual

calcium detection

strip for biological

fluids. “Cal-Det-

One drop calcium

detection”

ICT, Maharashtra 1 Saugandha Das

2 Shilpa Dawre

3 Darsheen Kotak

4 Amit Lokhande

5 Suraj More

Team 15 24 Glutameter: A

pre- diagnostic

kit for cancer

detection

Anna

University

Tamil Nadu

1 Chakravarthy M

2 Swathi S

3 Jayachandran K

4 Srisowmeya G

5 Deepa. S

Team 16 27 Lab on a Stick – High

Precision Enzyme

Linked Immuno

Sorbent Assay in a

Capillary System for

Point of Care

Diagnostics

Rajalakshmi

Engineering

College,

TamilNadu

1 Harshavardhini G

2 Iswarya Srinivasan

3 Prabakaran K

4 Naveen Kumar

5 Poovarasan K

Team 17 28 A novel and

ecofriendly approach

to treat wastewater

contaminated with

heavy metals by using

plant biomass

Vellore Institute of

Technology,

TamilNadu

1 Sabranth Gupta

2 Bibhudatta Mohanty

3 G Dhanush

4 Bhumika Patel

5 Ranjan

Team 18 33 Aquaporin Based

Water Filter

BIT-Mesra,

Jharkhand

1 Satyanarayana Reddy Battula

2 Saptaswa Biswas

3 Priyam Raut

4 Ravi Kumar

5 Shweta Shree

Team 19 36 Stool Dry ICT, Maharashtra 1 Swapnil R. Kokate

2 Aditya Deshmukh

3 Nupur N. Nagwekar

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4 Ashwin U. Wagh

5 Aditya R. Kamble

Team 20 37 Value added plant

based formulation

for effective

cleaning of food

contact surfaces in

Industrial and

household units

JUIT,

Himachal

Pradesh

1 Niharika Singh

2 Shivani Agarwal

3 Rimjhim Agarwal

4 Snigdha Ghosh

5 Divya Thakur

53 Female students and 43 Male students attended the BEST 2016 Workshop

Workshop Summary

The workshop was mentored by Mr K.Vijayaraghavan, Chairman, Sathguru Management

Consultants, who kindly agreed to be part of the workshop this year.

The workshop was designed by the ABLE team and Officially Opened with Familiarization

& Introduction about BEST by Mr. Narayanan Suresh, COO ABLE which included the

topics like Role of the entrepreneurial team.

The focus of the workshop was helping the teams to be ready with as business plan by end of

first two days of campus. The workshop was structured in an interactive format and comprised

of sessions on Business planning Industry insights, Success Stories, Inspirational Stories.

The session was on The Spirit of Entrepreneurial process Mr. K.Vijayaraghavan,

Chairman, Sathguru Management Consultants.

The following session were on Seeding the Cloud, Ideating, Identifying, Defining and

analysing opportunities by Dr Shrikumar Suryanarayan, vice-president, ABLE &

Chairman, Sea6Energy who explained how in the past Entrepreneurs were generally seen as

mavericks who got this one great idea that they developed into a great product or service. The

entrepreneurial process has become more predictable though the degree of difficulty still

remains.

On February 21st, Mr. Subramani Ramachandrappa, Treasurer ABLE & CMD, Richcore

Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd delivered sessions on Making it Work: Financing & Licensing,

Technology commercialization & articulating propositions; How Exciting is the Opportunity?

and Validating the Market Opportunity. In this session examples of market and significant

market opportunities were explained. The session also enabled participants understand how

to segment and define customer needs and a huge market potential. The following session was about The Power of Networking for Entrepreneurs by Mr G S

Krishnan, Regional President, Novozymes South Asia, who explained about how important

it is to build a network and make win-win associations.

The following session was about Effective IP Management by Mr. Ravi Bhola, Partner, K &

S Partners explained important steps to Establishing an IP management framework:

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Step 1: Identify your organizations’ commercial goals

Step 2: Identify your organizations’ IP rights & competitive IP landscape

Step 3: Align your organizations’ IP rights with its business goals

Step 4: Formulate an IP strategy for your organization

The next session was by Mr. K. Vijayaraghavan, Chairman, Sathguru Management

Consultants on Entrepreneurial Learning and How to Practicing your Start up pitch- An

effective brand strategy.

At the end of the 2 day workshop the participants were able to put together their business plans

for a 20 minutes presentation before the Jury on day 3.

On February 22nd

2017 Dr P.M.Murali. President ABLE, Introduced the Jury, Observers

and Evaluation Process.

The 96 students showed great enthusiasm throughout the workshop and were happy to learn

about the nuances of starting a business venture

On the final day the twenty participating teams presented their Business Plans based on the

learning during the workshop and made a 10 minute presentation to the Jury. The Jury panel

was chaired by Dr. P.M.Murali, President, ABLE. The Presentations were evaluated for

Techno-economic feasibility / commercialisation potential of the business; Innovativeness of

the idea; Market Potential; Quality and conviction of team and Level of Motivation of team

members.

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Five top teams were identified on the Jury Scores

The first prize of Rs 5 lakh, the second prize of Rs 3 Lakh for 2 teams and the third prize of

Rs 2 Lakh for 2 teams was disbursed to the winning teams in February 22nd 2017. Qualified of

Third winning team all 5 students are Female.

Announced the winning team and the Details of the winning teams:

CATEGORY TEAM INSTITUTION TEAM MEMBERS SOLUTION

First Winning

Team

Team 07 ICT,

Maharashtra

Manish Gore

Prachi Bangde

Kritika Gupta

Ganesh Gaikwad Sharwari Ghodke

Localized

Operation of

Bio-Cells Using Sewage to

generate energy

Second

Winning Team

Team 14 ICT,

Maharashtra

Saugandha Das

Shilpa Dawre Darsheen Kotak

Amit Lokhande

Suraj More

Nutraceuticals to reduce

risk of old-age neurodegenerative diseases

Second

Winning Team

Team 16 Rajalakshmi

Engineering

College, Tamil Nadu

Harshavardhini G Iswarya Srinivasan

Prabakaran K

Naveen Kumar Poovarasan K

Bioplastic Manufacture

Third Winning

Team

Team 06 ICT,

Maharashtra

Sarayu Pai

Malvika Gursahani

Snehal Mestry Nitin Gawali

Manik Bainwad

Leachate treatment using

biological methods

Third Winning

Team

Team 10 Rajalakshmi

Engineering

College, Tamil

Nadu

Madhumita S

Gayathri A Nivetha Shree N

Gayatri R

Anamika Sharma

NanoBios Diagnostics

Laboratories - Early TB Detection Diagnostic Kit

The five winning teams were invited to make their presentations at BIOINVEST on April 04th 2017

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Photographs

Group Photo

Team Introductions by One/Two of the team in TOP 20

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Participants listening to one of the sessions

Introduction of the Jury members by Dr. P.M.Murali, President ABLE,

Dr. Goutam Das, Mr. G S Krishnan, Mr. Vishal Gandhi

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First Prize Winners ICT, Maharashtra

Manish Gore, Prachi Bangde, Kritika Gupta, Ganesh Gaikwad, Sharwari

Ghodke

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Second Prize Winners ICT Maharashtra

Saugandha Das, Shilpa Dawre, Darsheen Kotak, Amit Lokhande, Suraj More

Second Prize Winners Rajalakshmi Engineering College, TamilNadu

Harshavardhini G, Iswarya Srinivasan, Prabakaran K, Naveen

Kumar, PoovarasanK

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Third Prize Winners

ICT Maharashtra

Sarayu Pai, Malvika Gursahani, Snehal Mestry, Nitin Gawali, Manik Bainwad

Third Prize Winners Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Tamil Nadu

Madhumita S, Gayathri A, Nivetha Shree N, Gayatri R, Anamika

Sharma

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Dr. Goutam Das distributing Certificates

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Introduction

Bioinvest is an investor Forum designed by ABLE and with an aim of bringingther on one

platform the Life Science Companies, Institutional Investors and Investment Bankers to

explore opportunities for investments and partnering in the Life Science sector.

The Programme is sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of

Science and Technology, Government of India and was executed and managed by

Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises, ABLE – India (www.ableindia.in).

BEST 2016 winners participated in Bioinvest who came from different universities

covering the length and breadth of the country e.g. from Mumbai and Chennai which

shows the importance and popularity of BEST event.

Pre Workshop Arrangements

Invitation was sent to Investors, start-ups and Biotechnology Professionals and

Academicians to participate.

Dr. Suresh Narayanan addressing the event with opening remarks

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Biotechnology Enterpreneurship Students

Team (BEST) Winners Team Presentations

Top teams of the pan India 8th BEST Edition held on February 19 - 23, 2017 Manesar, NCR

and presented for 8 minutes each.

'μEnTestinaTM, An alternative-to-animal Intestine-on-a-chip drug testing platform -

ICT, Maharashtra

'A simple, rapid, ready to use, point of care, visual calcium detection strip for biological

fluids.“Cal-Det-One drop calcium detection” - ICT, Maharashtra.

Lab on a Stick – High Precision Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay in a Capillary

System for Point of Care Diagnostics - Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Tamilnadu.

'Diagnosis of coeliac disease through luciferase immunoprecipitation systems (LIPS)

based assay - - ICT, Maharashtra.

‘Treat water from home, at home; A solution to purify domestic waste water -

Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Tamil Nadu

1st

prize winners of BEST 2016 from ICT, Mumbai presenting their winning

idea

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2nd prize winners of BEST 2016 from ICT, Mumbai presenting their winning

idea

2nd prize winners of BEST 2015 from Rajalakshmi Engineering College,

Tamil Nadu presenting their winning idea

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3rd prize winners of BEST 2016 from ICT, Mumbai presenting their

winning idea

3rd prize winners of BEST’ 2015 Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Tamil

Naidu presenting their winning idea

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"STARTING UP" THE LIFE-SCIENCES SECTOR

BioInvest 2017 Opening Remarks and Panel Discussion on Mentoring new

generation start-ups investors

Panellist: Dr PM Murali, President, ABLE, Mr DA Prasanna, Dr Jagadish

Mittur, Dr

Goutam Das, D A Prasanna, Dr K K Narayanan

Dr. P M Murali moderating the panel discussion

Panelists sharing a lighter note

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Panel discussion in progress with Dr. Jagdish Mittur pitching in

Business Plan Presentation by Start-up Companies

Mr. Milind Choudhari, Founder and CEO,WeInnovate Bio

solutions Pvt. Ltd

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Mr. Vijaygopal Rengarajan, Founder & CEO from Innov4Sight Health and

Biomedical Systems Pvt Ltd

Bhadresh Pankhaniya, C.E.O. from Shree Biocare Solution Pvt Ltd

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Mr.Arun Chandru, Pandorum Technologies presented their strategies to

fast forward their exciting Bio-technologies, products and services. (BEST

2011 Winner)

Several options exist for startups and early stage companies involved in drug

discovery & development. The GOI has various schemes and planned new

ones. Panelists from public and private sectors shared the learnings, discussed

past, current trends and future plans. Panelists: Deepanwita Chattopadhyay (Chairman & CEO, IKP,

Moderator), Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed (C CAMP), Mads Bjornvad (Head of

R&D India Director), Mr. A.R. Jayakumar ( CEO, KITVEN Fund)

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Event Summary

ABLE successfully conducted the 13th edition of BIOINVEST on 04th April, 2017 at Hotel

Shangri-La, Bangalore. The DBT supported event and the event witnessed the presence of the

eminent industry experts, government decision makers, investors, venture capitalists, leading

executives, young and aspiring entrepreneurs for the programme. Dr. P M Murali was the guest

speaker for the event. The BEST winner’s presentations were well received and the teams were

pleased with the interactions and for a chance at meeting a lot of biotech stakeholders. There were

two panel discussions where the panellists provided suggestions on new ways in which to get

products and services to the market and also advise the government on which subsectors require

more attention while granting early support.

Photographs

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ANNEXURE I

BEST 2016 CONCEPT NOTES

BEST ID Title of the idea Institute and State

01 Universal Micronutrient Reader (UMR) IIT-Bombay, Maharashtra

02 D’Strand™: Effective bioremediation of hair waste Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh

03 Algal Bio plastic for Automobile Applications

(ABAA)

Sathyabama Univ, Tamil Nadu

04 REAflaB1TM – Rapid and Economic Aflatoxin B1 detection kit

ICT, Maharashtra

05 Cavitation based sustainable process for the

potential use of keratin based waste as fertilizer, animal feed and pet food

ICT, Maharashtra

06 Development of colorimetric sensor for the

measurement of chronic wound biomarker

Amity Univ, Uttar Pradesh

07 Peck –Filter St. Xavier's College. Maharashtra

08 Animal Feed From Agro Waste - Rice Straw IISER, Pune

09 PathagonoBIS- A novel cheap gadget for the detection of contamination in a variety of samples in

a short time

Shri Andar Alagar College of Engineering. Tamil Nadu

10 A Novel Smart Irrigation without Pesticides for Clean India Using Wireless Sensor Network

Sathyabama University, Tamil Nadu

11 Diagnosis of coeliac disease through luciferase immunoprecipitation systems (LIPS) based assay

ICT, Maharashtra

12 Apta-Cheq E: A Programmable Aptamer sensor for

low-cost and On-site Detection of Foodborne Infectious Pathogens

DRDO-BU-CLS, Tamil Nadu

13 μEnTestinaTM: An alternative-toanimal Intestine-

on-achip drug testing platform

ICT, Maharashtra

14 Electrochemical DNA biosensor for the diagnosis of Scrub Typhus

Shoolini University, Himachal Pradesh

15 SMART INDIA-INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT THROUGH INTERNET OF

EVERY THINGS (IoT)

Sathyabama Univ. Tamil Nadu

16 Towards the development of a better, safe,

environment friendly method to purify water using Moringa oleifera (MO)

Shoolini University, Himachal

Pradesh

17 Treat water from home, at home; A solution to

purify domestic waste water.

Rajalakshmi Engineering College,

Tamil Nadu

18 Electrochemical Tissue transglutaminase based

lateral flow assay for the instant diagnosis of Celiac

Disease

Shoolini University, Himachal

Pradesh

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19 AQUALIBLE: A superefficient product for water nourishment and management.

ICT, Maharashtra

20 Nano-cellulose water purifiers- The next version

purifiers

MGM's Institute of Biosciences and

Technology, Maharashtra

21 Non-Invasive Point-of-Care Strategies for Early

Detection of Oral Cancer

BITS Pilani, Hyderabad

22 BESTy Washing Machine - The laundry device that

helps us reuse water

Amity Institute, Uttar Pradesh

23 A simple, rapid, ready to use, point of care, visual

calcium detection strip for biological fluids. “Cal-

Det-One drop calcium detection”

ICT, Maharashtra

24 Glutameter: A pre-diagnostic kit for cancer detection

Anna Univ. Tamil Nadu

25 Diagnostic kit for detection of spoiled food products IIT-Kharagpur. West Bengal

26 Superabsorbent polymers from deceased waste as water reservoir for parched crops

ICT, Maharashtra

27 Lab on a Stick – High Precision Enzyme Linked

Immuno Sorbent Assay in a Capillary System for Point of Care Diagnostics

Rajalakshmi Engineering College,

Tamil Nadu

28 A novel and ecofriendly approach to treat

wastewater contaminated with heavy metals by

using plant biomass

Vellore Institute of Technology,

Tamil Nadu

29 PrevCure: A one step technology for Prevention as well as Cure

ICT, Maharashtra

30 Development of Eco-Friendly Micro beads for cosmetics from Photosynthetic

bacteria and cyanobacteria

University of Hyderabad. Telangana

31 Development of cost-effective and environment-

friendly Rhizobium based bio-fertilizers to bring

sustainability in agriculture

ICT, Maharashtra

32 “Inhibition of Cholesterol Esterase by Polyphenols

from Edible Fruit”

Kumaraguru College of Technology,

Tamil Nadu

33 Aquaporin Based Water Filter BIT-Mesra, Jharkhand

34 Nutraceutical Antioxidant-Rich Designer Foods From Cannon Ball Fruits

Jadavpur Univ. W.B

35 MYCOlumn: Surrogate to Rally for Mycoplasma detection

Punjab Univ, Chandigarh

36 StoolDry ICT, Maharashtra

37 Value added plant based formulation for effective cleaning of food contact surfaces in Industrial and

household units

JUIT, Himachal Pradesh

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ANNEXURE II

BEST 2016 AGENDA

BIOTECHNOLOGY ENTERPRENEURSHIP

STUDENTS TEAM (BEST) 2016

Agenda for Workshop

19th-23rd February 2017

Best Western Country Club Resort, Near Manesar, Haryana, NCR

Day 1 , Sunday 19th February, 2017

Check – In, Registration & Reimbursement

1.00-6.00 pm Check-in, Registration, Reimbursement of TA/DA

7.30 pm Dinner

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Day 2, Monday, 20th February, 2017

Architecture of Entrepreneurial Learning

7.30- 8.30am

9.00- 9.30am Official Opening : Familiarization & Introduction about BEST

Mr Narayanan Suresh, COO ABLE

9.30- 10.00am BEST Team Introduction Top 20 teams

Entrepreneurial Strategy

10:00- 10:30

am

The Spirit of Entrepreneurial process Mr. K. Vijayaraghavan, Chairman, Sathguru Management Consultants

10:30- 11:30

am

India’s BioEconomy – Potential and Drivers

Mr Narayanan Suresh, COO, ABLE

India’s BioEconomy is currently pegged at 35 billion USD and the goal is to

reach 100 billion by 2025. The journey will be challenging, considering the

pool of talent India is well poised to reach its goal. Biotechnology is perhaps

the most important driver and innovation is a key element. Beyond hard

GDP numbers, Governments are looking for Happiness levels of their

citizens. Biotechnology has the potential to increase efficiency and

sustainability through affordable innovation thereby reducing Stress.

11:30 – 11:45 am Coffee Break

11:45- 1:00

pm

Creating and Communicating the winning Business Idea. Mr K. Vijayaraghavan, Chairman, Sathguru Management Consultants

Breakfast

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2:00- 3:00 pm Seeding the Cloud

Ideating, Identifying, Defining and analysing opportunities.

Dr Shrikumar Suryanarayan, vice-president, ABLE & Chairman,

Sea6Energy In the past Entrepreneurs were generally seen as mavericks who

got this one great idea that they developed into a great product or service. The

entrepreneurial process has become more predictable though the degree of

difficulty still remains.

Team Building / Working on Business Plans

3:30 -- 7.30 pm Business Teams will individually meet up with the Lead coordinator

. to be guided on their business plans.

4:30 – 5:00 pm Coffee Break

7.30- 8.30 pm Dinner

Team Building / Working on Business Plans

8:30 pm onwards Business Teams work on their business plans.

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Day 3, Tuesday, 21st February 2017

Architecture of Entrepreneurial Learning

7:00- 8:30 am 9:00- 10:00

am

Breakfast Making it Work: Financing & Licensing ,Technology commercialization

& articulating propositions

Mr Subramani Ramachandrappa, Treasurer, ABLE & CMD, Richcore

Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd

10:00- 11:00

am

The power of Networking for

Entrepreneurs

Mr G S Krishnan, Regional President, Novozymes South

Asia,

No mission can be accomplished alone; it is the network that will help you

with your pursuits. It is important to build a network that is well outside

your domain of expertise, it is important to build a trusted network, it is

important to build it fast and it is even more important to help your current

contacts and make a win-win association.

11:00 – 11:30 am Coffee Break

Entrepreneurial Learning

11:30- 1:00 pm Effective IP Management

Mr. Ravi Bhola, Partner, K & S Partners.

(Covers development and implementation of an IP strategy suitable for your

organisation and the manner in which IP may be leveraged for capital raising)

Establishing an IP management framework

Step 1: Identify your organizations’ commercial goals

Step 2: Identify your organizations’ IP rights & competitive IP landscape

Step 3: Align your organizations’ IP rights with its business goals

Step 4: Formulate an IP strategy for your organization

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1:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch

Entrepreneurial Learning

2:00- 3:30 pm Practising your Start up pitch. An effective brand

strategy Mr. K. Vijayaraghavan, Chairman, Sathguru

Management Consultants

3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break

Photograph session

4:00- 5:00pm Group Photograph

Team Building / Working on Business Plans

5:00- 10:00 pm Work on your ventures. Lead coordinator would be available to guide

on finalization of teams business plans

7.30 – 8.30 pm Dinner

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Day 4, Wednesday, February 22, , 2017

Final Presentation with Judges

7:00- 8:30

am

9:00- 9:30

am

Breakfast Introduction of Jury, Observers and Evaluation Process by Dr. P M

Murali, President, ABLE

Dr. P M Murali, Chairman-Jury

Jury Members:

Dr Goutam Das

Mr G S Krishnan

Mr Vishal

Gandhi

Team Final Presentations

9:40- 5:20

pm Team Final Presentations 9.40 – 10.00 am: Team 1 - BEST ID

10.00 – 10.20 am: Team 2 - BEST ID

10.20 – 10.40 am: Team 3 - BEST ID

10.40 – 11.00 am: Team 4 - BEST ID

11.00 – 11.20 am: Team 5 - BEST ID

11.20 – 11.30 am: Coffee Break

11.30 – 11.50 am: Team 6 - BEST ID 11.50 – 12.10 pm: Team 7- BEST ID

12.10 – 12.30 pm: Team 8 - BEST ID

12.30 – 12.50 pm: Team 9 - BEST ID

12.50 – 1.10 pm: Team 10 - BEST ID

1.10 – 1.30 pm Team 11 - BEST ID

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1.30 – 2.30 pm: Lunch

2.30 – 2.50 pm: Team 12 - BEST ID

2.50 – 3.10 pm: Team 13 - BEST ID

3.10 – 3.30 pm: Team 14 - BEST ID

3.30 – 3.50 pm: Team 15 - BEST ID

3.50 – 4.10 pm: Team 16 - BEST ID

4.10 – 4.30 pm: Team 17 - BEST ID

4.30 – 4.40 pm: Coffee Break

4.40 – 5.00 pm: Team 18 - BEST ID 5.00 – 5.20 pm: Team 19 - BEST ID

5.20 – 5.40 pm: Team 20 - BEST ID

RESULTS & Announcement of Winners

6.00- 6.30

pm

7.00 – 7.40

pm

Consolidation of Results

Announcement of Results and Winners by Dr. P M Murali, President,

ABLE

8.00 – 9.30 pm: Dinner

Day 5, Thursday, February 23, 2017

7:00- 9:00 am Breakfast & Check out

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ANNEXURE III

BEST 2016 FEEDBACK

The feedback received from the students is summarized below:

95% respondents were satisfied with BEST

97 % respondents felt BEST would help them in their entrepreneurial quest

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Level of satisfaction was high on all 12 parameters

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All sessions were found to be relevant

Some suggestions from the students:

The Web quality can be further improved

Reaching the venue was an issue perhaps due to a Strike by Ola/Uber during that period.

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ANNEXURE IV

BIOINVEST AGENDA

Time Session Speakers

1030 – 1100 Registration & Networking

1100 – 1110 BEST 2016 & BioInvest

Details

Narayanan Suresh

1110 – 1125 The BEST 2016 Winners

Showcase

Five BEST Teams to Present

1125 – 1135 A BEST Success Story Pandorum Technologies

1135 – 1150 BioInvest 2017 Opening

Remarks

Dr P M Murali, President, ABLE, Mr.

DA Prasanna, Dr Jagadish Mittur

1150 – 1230 Start-ups Make a Pitch Azooka Life Sciences

BugWorks

Innov4Sight

Weinnovate BioSolution

Shanmukha Innovations

1230 – 1315 Panel Discussion on

Mentoring new generation

start-ups

PM Murali, Dr Goutam Das, D A

Prasanna, Dr K K Narayanan, 2

investors

1315-1415 Networking Lunch

1415 – 1500 Interesting Business Ideas + Start up Presentations

Elixsys

Aspartika

Quest Combio

Shree Biocare

Molbits

1500- 1545 How to Fund Start-ups? Deepanwita Chattopadhyay, Vishal

Gandhi, Taslimarif Saiyed, Mads

Bjornvad

1545 – 1600 Concluding Remarks /

Open session

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ABLE wishes to thank and acknowledge the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) for their

constant support for the BEST event over all the past editions. The cooperation and guidance

received from Dr K. VijayRaghavan Secretary DBT, Dr. Shailja Gupta, Scientist ‘G’ and Dr

Sanjay Kalia, Scientist ‘E’ has been invaluable. The BEST event has become a much

anticipated annual event among the life science students since it provides a chance to interact

with practicing CEOs, many of whom have begun their journeys as entrepreneurs.

ABLE also wishes to acknowledge the eminent jury members and speakers Dr. P.M.Murali, Dr.

Goutam Das, Mr. Subramani Ramchandrappa, Dr. Shrikumar Suryanarayanan, Mr. Ravi Bhola,

Mr. Utkarsh Palnitkar, Mr. Sohang Chatterjee, Dr. Prahalad Achutarao, Dr. Maloy Ghosh, Mr.

GS Krishnan, Dr. K.K. Narayanan and Mr. Vishal Gandhi for their help and support. A special

thanks to Mr. K. Vijayaraghavan for being the lead coordinator of BEST 2016 and to the team

from ABLE Mr. N.Suresh, Dr Anil Chauhan, Mr Srinivas Rao and Ms Pavana Praveen for

coordinating the arrangements and execution. ABLE also acknowledges the efforts put in by all

the applicants, participating students and the college managements. Finally a word of

appreciation for the Best Western Resort Hotel’s management and staff for their professional

services in making the event a memorable one.