Astellas Future Innovator Prize 2025

Entrepreneurs: Astellas wants to help you launch your dream! With a strong commitment to supporting cutting-edge science that can bring VALUE to patients, Astellas is proud to sponsor the Astellas Future Innovator Prize in partnership with prominent laboratory incubator spaces that are designed as launchpads for high-potential biotech startups.

Astellas Future Innovator Prize 2025 with animated rocket ship to symbolize how Astellas helps entrepreneurs launch their dreams.

Competitions

  • 2025 Competition

San Francisco

MBC BioLabs

  • 2023 Competition

San Francisco

MBC BioLabs

  • 2022 Competition

San Francisco

MBC BioLabs

  • 2021 Competition

United Kingdom

We Are Pioneer Group

  • 2021 Competition

San Francisco

MBC BioLabs

  • 2021 Competition

Greater Boston/Cambridge

LabCentral

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Anik Debnath, Ph.D., co-Founder and CEO of Tenza

“Gaining access to Astellas' R&D and clinical expertise through the Astellas Future Innovator Prize is a fantastic opportunity, for which we are most grateful. In conjunction with the lab space from LabCentral, it will allow us to accelerate the pre-clinical development of our lead programs and pursue additional indications that leverage our platform's capabilities across mucosal disease more broadly.”

Frequently Asked Questions

Winners will receive one year’s free space for an individual bench at the state-of-the-art lab facilities, along with all resident benefits. They will also gain access to Astellas’ R&D capabilities, business leaders, mentors and global network of partner academic institutes and biotechnology companies.

Entrepreneurial scientists, emerging life science companies and biotechnology startups that are developing pioneering scientific research or building novel therapeutic programs, modalities or programs.

About Astellas

For questions, please contact

Astellas Venture Management LLC