Nano-3D printer, mobile medical record and an app for plant diseases
The young innovators 2016 have been chosen

Technology Review awards ten prize winners on 5th of July at the Quadriga Forum in Berlin-Mitte. From medicine to IT security to financial technology and 3D printing - the areas of expertise of the young scientists are multifaceted.

Hanover, June 22, 2016 - An accurate 3D printer for future nanorobots, a program for the exchange of health data and an app that can recognize the plant diseases by means of mobile phone photos: These are three of ten award-winning projects in the German edition of the competition "Innovators under 35". Which one of them additionally will be awarded the title of "Innovator of the Year" and "Social Innovator of the Year" will be decided on 5th of July at the award ceremony. Attendance at the award ceremony with prior registration is free of charge.

The Karlsruhe resident Michael Thiel is the founder of nanoscribe and has developed the world's most accurate commercial 3D printer. He can print layers that are one micron thin. For comparison: A hair is 50 to 70 times as thick. "This optical 3D printer has a significantly higher resolution than conventional 3D printing methods and is already successfully used today to research for instance in photonics, micro-optics, medical engineering", emphasizes Tobias Kraus, jury member and head of structure formation at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials. Researchers, for example, build with it a possible drive system for nanorobots.

John Jacubeit, sports physician and founder of the startup company Connected Health, wants the improve communication between patients and doctors. With the product LifeTime Hub developed by him, the patient has his medical records always with him and can share his health data locally with the doctor. "A great idea because ironically, where the sharing of information is really critical, it jams particularly," finds editor in chief of TR Thielicke.

15 to 30 percent of the crop yields are lost worldwide each year due to plant diseases and pests. To facilitate environmentally friendly countermeasures the geographer and botanist Simone Santiago has developed the program Plantix. This app recognizes plant diseases by means of mobile phone photos. Using this app, the unnecessary use of pesticides in agriculture can be prevented. "The application shows impressively how machine learning can provide benefits for the society", praises jury member Patrick Baudisch, head of Human Computer Interaction at the Hasso Plattner Institute.

The other innovators include:

• Ansgar Jonietz: The medical doctor founded the online service washabich.de to translate technical jargon of findings in a manner understandable for lay persons free of charge. Meanwhile, his team of 1300 medical students and doctors has translated some 26 000 medical findings.

• Steven Arzt/Siegfried Rasthofer: The two computer scientists developed CodeInspect. With this malware analysis tool, hacked or fake Android apps and Java programs can be tracked much faster and more accurately than ever before.
  
  
• Gero Decker: The founder of Signavio has designed a software that makes the process management in companies transparent and thus easy. Finally even with complicated processes, the left hand knows what the right hand is doing.
  
  
• Christopher Fuhrhop: The 32 year-old has developed a rescue system for water sports that is not hindering during physical activity. Unlike conventional life jackets it is small and handy and self-inflates like an airbag in an emergency.
  
  
• Benedikt Kramer: The business economist with his Fintech Start-up awamo wants to revolutionize the microfinance sector in Africa. The company developed an identification system using fingerprint and a software for simple credit management.
  
  
• Tom Baden: With a mixture of open source and 3D printing, the neuroscientist wants to achieve that laboratories produce a part of their equipment themselves. Thousands of designs are in the meantime available at the platform OpenLabware.
  
  
• Frederik Brantner: Storage robots could only fetch whole crates or pallets until now. With Toru, the CEO of the Munich company Magazino has changed that. The machines now can also bring an individual object from a box or a shelf to the workbench or shipping station.

The upcoming talent award is considered as one of the most important awards for young innovators. 17 years ago this was initiated by the US American magazine MIT Technology Review. Previous prize winners include Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek of Spotify. The winners of the German edition are automatically nominated for the international list of the 35 best innovators under 35, which will be awarded annually by the US American MIT Technology Review.

Supporters of the competition TR 35
The competition is in the meantime held in five countries across Europe and is supported at all venues by BNP Paribas. Partners of the German edition are the Consorsbank and the High-Tech Gründerfonds. In addition, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles supports the competition.

At the ceremony on 5th of July in Berlin besides the prize winners also venture capitalists, start-up founders and representatives from the research departments of large local companies will be present. Raúl Rojas, Professor of intelligent systems and robotics at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Nevada (Reno) holds the keynote of self-propelled vehicles. 2014 Rojas was awarded the title of "Professor of the Year" by the German Association of University Professors.

A visit to the award ceremony is free of charge, but reservation has to be made in advance because there is limited space. The program and further details will follow. Portraits of the 2013 and 2015 prize winners are available at www.technologyreview.de/TR35.

Technology Review is the monthly German edition of the famous "MIT Technology Review". For more than ten years the innovation magazine reports latest technological trends that have the potential to change our society and our lives. The magazine identifies market opportunities and the benefits of innovations in particular from information, bio and nanotechnology, energy, transport, aerospace, medical engineering and material research.

Innovators under 35 - in the United States the prize is considered as one of the most prestigious awards for young, talented scientists and developers. For 16 years now the prize has been awarded by the American edition of Technology Review, the innovation magazine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Technology Review will arrange interviews with the young innovators for interested journalists starting at 2 pm. For the accreditation and appointment coordination simply contact Sylke Wilde at: sy@heise.de .