spaceshot@treefrog.fr<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nArticle 5: Criteria and Means of Selection<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n5.1. Selection Committee<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nBased on the Applications received, an internal selection committee (hereinafter the “Committee”), chaired by Maxime Feyeux, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of TreeFrog Therapeutics, and comprising employees of the Organizer, shall select ten Applications to be presented to the jury.<\/span><\/p>\n5.2. Jury<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe Contest jury ((hereinafter the “Jury”) is chaired by Maxime Feyeux and other members:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Peter Andrews<\/span><\/li>\n
- Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan<\/span><\/li>\n
- Marta Shahbazi<\/span><\/li>\n
- Justin Eyquem<\/span><\/li>\n
- Shin Kawamata<\/span><\/li>\n
- Pierre Nassoy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In the event that one or more members of the jury change, the organizer will inform the applicants by any means, such as by publishing the new jury on the Website.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Jury:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- shall determine the Winner among the Applications selected<\/span><\/li>\n
- shall draw up a ranked list of the best Applications to replace any Winner who declines the first place and\/or the Award.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In case of a tie in the vote concerning the determination of the Winner and\/or the ranked list of the best Applications, the chairman of the Jury shall have a casting vote.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Applicants and Winner shall be notified of the Application that wins the Contest.<\/span><\/p>\n5.3. Selection Criteria<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe following assessment criteria shall be considered for the pre-selection of the Applications and selection of the Winner of the Contest:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Audacity<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
- Potential therapeutic impact<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Nevertheless, it is stipulated that these criteria are given for informational purposes and that no claim may be made to contest the decision of the Committee and\/or the Jury on these grounds. The decisions of the Committee and those of the Jury are absolute.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nArticle 6: Timeline<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe application form will be open from May 1st<\/sup> to June 30th<\/sup> 2022. Any Applications submitted after this deadline shall be excluded from consideration.<\/span><\/p>\nThe ten nominees among the Applicants (hereinafter \u201cNominees\u201d) selected by the Committee to be presented to the Jury in application of Article 5, will be announced in August 2022.<\/span><\/p>\nVirtual interviews of the Nominees with the Jury will take place in late September – early october 2022.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Winner will be announced in October 2022. The announcement of the Winner corresponds to the end of the Contest (hereinafter \u201cthe End of the Contest\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\nThe Winner will have 6 months to indicate the Laboratory that will receive the Award and in which research will be conducted.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nArticle 7: Contest Award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe Organizer shall allocate a financial Award (hereinafter the “Award”) to the Laboratory.<\/span><\/p>\n7.1. Award and Terms of Payment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe Award, which is intended to continue or assist in the completion of the work described in the Application, shall not exceed one hundred thousand Dollars ($100,000) and shall be used to fund some of the Laboratory’s salary, equipment and operating expenses incurred by the Winner’s Project for a period of twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) months.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Award shall be paid according to the following timetable:<\/span><\/p>\n– Half of the funds ($50,000) will be provided within one month after the signature of the Contract as defined in Article 7.2.;<\/span><\/p>\n– Half of the funds ($50,000) will be provided after a one-year data cut-off presentation to the Jury.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Winner may not use funds provided under this Award for any purpose other than the Project and may not use the Award funds to reimburse any expenses incurred prior to the beginning of the Contest.<\/span><\/p>\n7.2. Conditions of Award Disbursement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe conditions for awarding and using the Award shall be set forth in a research collaboration contract (hereinafter the “Contract”) to be signed by the Organizer and the institution (legal entity) with which the Laboratory is affiliated (hereinafter the “Parties”).<\/span><\/p>\nThe Contract shall define the handling of the intellectual property relating to the results obtained, in accordance with the principles defined in Article 8.<\/span><\/p>\nContract negotiations between the Parties must be finalized within a period of six (6) months starting from the End of the Contest.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nArticle 8: Intellectual Property<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n8.1. Each Applicant represents and warrants that all permissions, if any are required, have been granted prior to submission of the entry and that Applicant may legally grant all licenses and permissions contained within these Contest Rules to the Organizer.<\/span><\/p>\nTo the maximum extent permitted by law, each Applicant agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Organizer from and against any and all claims, actions, suits or proceedings, as well as any and all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys\u2019 fees) arising out of or accruing from:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- (i) any content, work or material submitted or otherwise provided to the Organizer by the Applicant that infringes any copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent or other intellectual property right of any person or defames any person or violates their rights of publicity or privacy;<\/span><\/li>\n
- (ii) any misrepresentation made by the Applicant in connection with the Contest;<\/span><\/li>\n
- (iii) any non-compliance by the Applicant with these Contest Rules;<\/span><\/li>\n
- (iv) claims brought by persons or entities other than the parties to these Contest Rules arising from or related to the Applicant\u2019s involvement with the Contest;<\/span><\/li>\n
- (v) any error in the collection, processing, or retention of entry information; or<\/span><\/li>\n
- (vi) any typographical or other error in the printing, offering or announcement of the Award or Winners.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
8.2. The Organizer shall not claim any industrial property rights obtained by the Laboratory without the Organizer during the execution of the Project.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Winner and the Laboratory shall present to the Organizer results obtained during the execution of the Project before public disclosure in order to explore potential collaboration opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA<\/strong><\/span>rticle 9: Confidentiality<\/strong><\/p>\nAll information provided by the Applicants in their Application shall be handled as confidential by the Organizer, including Committee members and Jury members.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nArticle 10: Personal Data Protection<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe personal data (hereinafter “Data”) submitted by the Applicants for the processing of their Application shall be electronically processed, recorded and used by the Organizer for the needs of their participation to the Contest, their selection by the Committee and Jury and the awarding of the Award.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Data submitted by the Applicants to the Organizer is intended to enable the processing of their participation to the Contest under the terms of these Contest Rules.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Data shall be retained after the End of the Contest for a necessary period of five (5) years. At the end of this period, the Data will be deleted from active databases and if applicable, archived for a period not exceeding the applicable legal prescribed periods or applicable archiving obligations. At the end of these periods, the Data will be destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\nIn accordance with the French Law on Information Technology and Civil Liberties of January 6, 1978 on data protection and with the General Data Protection Regulation number 2016\/679 of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR), Applicants have the right to access, object to, rectify and erase all data relating to them.<\/span><\/p>\nAny requests of this nature must be sent by email to: spaceshot@treefrog.fr<\/a><\/span> or mailed to the following address: TreeFrog Therapeutics, 30 avenue Gustave Eiffel, 33600 Pessac, France.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n