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Name: Avon Foundation for Women Grant Awards What is it: Two grants awarded to the Center for Advancing Innovation by the Avon Foundation for Women to 1) evaluate the progress of Avon-funded projects and 2) create the first business startup-challenge to fast-track promising breast cancer research discoveries When: June 1, 2014 Link: http://www.avonfoundation.org/press-room/annual-avon-walk-for-breast-cancer-chicagoraises-xx-million-1.html Why is it Important: This award was the impetus for launching the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge – the first of the startup challenges initiated by the Center for Advancing Innovation. Text: The Center for Advancing Innovation received a $150,000 research grant to help evaluate the progress of 64 Avon Foundation-funded projects working to develop a new blood test for breast cancer, including tests targeting who in the general population is at risk of breast cancer, what pre-cancers like DCIS will become invasive cancer, and what cancers will spread and metastasize to other parts of the body. Breast Cancer Start-Up Challenge: The Avon Foundation, The Center for Advancing Innovation, and the National Cancer Institute partnered to create a business start-up challenge to fast-track ten promising breast cancer research discoveries. The inventions were conceived and developed by Avon Foundation grantees and scientists at the National Cancer Institute.