{"id":1619,"date":"2014-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-640\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:55","slug":"innovation-anthology-640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2014\/09\/25\/innovation-anthology-640\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #640:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 640.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Trebuchet MS\";\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 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style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">Winner of the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\">2014 Perfect Pitch<\/strong> competition sponsored by Innovate Calgary is <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\">Emily Hicks.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">Emily is a founder and co-CEO of a startup biotech company called <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">FREDsense Technologies.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">FRED stands for Field Ready Electrochemical Detector, and it is the progeny of a student iGEM or International Genetically Engineered<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Machines competition. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">EMILY HICKS: <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"color:black\">Well, we&#8217;re a group of scientists that developed a really cool technology as part of a research competition that we were in and have now 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style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\"><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">To move <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">FREDsense<\/em> closer to commercialization, Emily Hicks is looking for an investment of $500,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">The $35,000 prize from Innovates Calgary will help with patent and marketing services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span 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