Microsoft Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Awards 2008
Just Announced: Deadline for submissions extended until Monday, May 19, 2008.
Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies have the opportunity to improve the quality of health through therapeutic innovations based on sound life science research and smart use of technology. The Microsoft Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award is an opportunity to show the medical community, consumers, and patients how your company is using new technology to revolutionize medicine by bringing therapeutic breakthroughs to the market faster to fight serious ailments, improve healthcare, and enhance people's quality of life.
The award is presented annually to the company that applies technology most innovatively in pursuit of excellence in these areas: improving the productivity of discovery and innovation, the effectiveness of research and development, the efficiency of manufacturing and supply chain processes, the effectiveness of sales and marketing, and the optimization of business operations.
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Award categories and judging criteria
Judges will pick a winner in each of the four categories listed below. The solution (or combination of solutions) can be offered by any company worldwide as long as it is based on Microsoft technologies such as BizTalk Server, Microsoft Windows Tablet PC Edition, Microsoft SQL Server, or the Microsoft Office system. The award emphasizes the innovative application of available software and devices, and the creation of new solutions.
The award categories and how they will be judged include:
Sales and marketing
Entries will be judged on three criteria:
1. | The innovation represents a breakthrough from the industry's historical approaches. |
2. | The innovation goes beyond incremental improvements on technologies that already exist. |
3. | The innovation enhances the company's ability to inform and educate physicians, and ultimately healthcare consumers, about the value of life sciences products and innovations. |
Manufacturing and supply chain
Entries will be judged on three criteria:
1. | The innovation represents a breakthrough from the industry's historical approaches. |
2. | The innovation goes beyond incremental improvements on technologies that already exist. |
3. | The innovation improves the company's ability to improve speed and quality in manufacturing, supply chain management, and product lifecycle management. |
Discovery and product innovation
Entries will be judged on three criteria:
1. | The innovation represents a breakthrough from the industry's historical approaches. |
2. | The innovation goes beyond incremental improvements on technologies that already exist. |
3. | The innovation improves the company's ability to get safer and more efficacious products to market faster by reducing complexity, lowering cost, and enhancing the speed and quality of the discovery process. |
Clinical development
Entries will be judged on three criteria:
1. | The innovation represents a breakthrough from the industry's historical approaches. |
2. | The innovation goes beyond incremental improvements on technologies that already exist. |
3. | The innovation improves the company's ability to improve both time to market and quality during in the process of conducting clinical trials, analysis, and submission. |
How to enter
Download the official entry form for each of the following categories:
Send the completed documents by e-mail to lsia@microsoft.com. The Participant Release Form (last page of entry document) must be signed and faxed to (425) 645-2020. The call for entry period ends on May 19, 2008, at 5:00 P.M. Pacific Time. After this date, all entries and content will be considered final.
For more details, please read the contest rules.
Who should enter
Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies worldwide that are innovatively applying technology to create therapeutic advances are welcome to enter the contest, through nomination from the scientific or technical community or business executives, chief information officers (CIOs), or chief technology officers (CTOs).
Why should you enter?
| • | Winners will be featured in promotional and marketing activities, such as a press release, Web content, as well as possible media interviews. |
| • | Winners will be announced in a "Microsoft branded" national advertisement (to be chosen by Microsoft). |
| • | Winners will receive a "Winner" trophy. |
| • | Winners will receive a marketing document on how to publicize the fact that the organization is a winner. Includes a "winner" specific logo to use on all your marketing materials. |
Contest rules
Read the contest rules before entering a solution to be considered for the award.
2007 Award winners
Microsoft Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award Winners 2007
For more information
For more information, please contact Monika Skibeness at:
| • | Phone: (425) 870-4880 |
| • | E-mail: lsia@microsoft.com |
