Biography:Nuno Pires
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Nuno Pires is a bioinformatician[1] from South Africa .[2] He is the co-founder of Altis Biologics.[3]
Career
Pires founded Altis Biologics with Nicolaas Duneas[4] in 2002.[5] He is the chief executive of business development at the company.[4]
In 2012 the company won the Africa SMME Awards in the Industrial Sector category.[6]
In 2014, Pires and Duneas won the Innovation Prize for Africa.[7] They received $100.000 for their Osteogenic Bone Matrix (OBM) innovation.[8]
Pires is a board member of the Licensing Executive Society South Africa.[9]
References
- ↑ "Group Members" (in en). http://www.mhs.biol.ethz.ch/research/stoffel/group-members-stoffel.html.
- ↑ "Previous - Innovation Prize for Africa". http://innovationprizeforafrica.org/previous-editions.html#wduneas-pires-dialog.
- ↑ "Pharmaceutical Executive". http://images2.advanstar.com/PixelMags/pharma-executive/pdf/2015-03.pdf.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Africa's Red Biotechnology : worldVIEW". http://www.saworldview.com/wv/archive/2012/africa-s-red-biotechnology/.
- ↑ Gaylard, Alison; Urban, Boris (2009). Altis Biologics: From Labs to Riches?. London. ISBN 9781473958371. http://sk.sagepub.com/cases/altis-biologics-from-labs-to-riches.
- ↑ "Congratulations to The Innovation Hub resident (tenant) company: Altis Biologics". http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59124.
- ↑ "innovation – AMP" (in en). https://qamp.net/tag/innovation/.
- ↑ Rodin, Jonathan. "African company wins innovation award". Engineering News. http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/african-company-wins-innovation-award-2014-05-23/rep_id:4136.
- ↑ "Annual Report 2014-15". https://www.lesi.org/docs/default-source/lesi-updates-and-news-documents/2014-15-annual-report.pdf?sfvrsn=2.