Abdi İbrahim Social Innovation
in Health Program: Doz

Doz aims to champion impact-driven solutions that foster the development of innovative health technologies. This year, Doz is seeking solutions in the fields of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, preventive medicine and wellbeing, sustainability, and alternative packaging.

What is Doz?

Doz accepts applications at various stages, supporting impact-oriented solutions that advance innovative health and sustainability technologies with tailored content based on their development stage.

Discover the focus areas that the Doz: Incubation and Doz: Corporate Partnership program is exploring for solutions, along with the support available for solutions at each stage.

Step-by-Step Doz Journey

Doz guides impact-driven solutions developing innovative health and sustainability technologies through two separate processes, Doz: Incubation and Doz: Corporate Partnership, customized to their needs. Doz: Incubation aims to support solutions that have the potential to advance the healthcare industry with its incubation program. Doz: Corporate Partnership seeks solutions for Abdi İbrahim's strategic innovation needs through the corporate partnership development process. For more information on the stages of the Incubation and Corporate Partnership processes, please refer to the table below.

With Doz, a sustainable
journey of impact awaits you.

Doz: Incubation and Doz: Corporate Partnership support solutions at which stage?

If you have a solution in the growth and scaling phase with potential for corporate collaboration, you will be invited to partner with Abdi İbrahim. If you have validated your business model or are new to the market, you will be supported through the incubation program, and at the end, you will have the opportunity to evaluate cooperation prospects with Abdi İbrahim.




Concept Development

Ideation and concept creation

*Not included in the program

Doz:Incubation
Pre-Seed Stage

Hypothesis validation and product prototyping

Doz:Incubation
Seed Stage

Ensuring product-market fit

Doz:Incubation
Early Stage

Acquiring the first customer group and making the initial sale

Doz:Corporate Partnership
Growth and Scaling

Achieving steady income and growth through strategic partnerships.

DOZ 2024 Focus Area

Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals
  • Solutions that have been tested and validated for the sustainable production and distribution of personalized medicines
  • Solutions for newly tested drugs and innovative drug manufacturing technologies
  • Technological solutions for remote healthcare or patient monitoring that have been accuracy-tested
  • Medical devices designed to improve patient care and diagnostic accuracy
  • Products that enable the reprogramming of organisms and biomolecules through genetic engineering methods
  • Solutions that can accelerate and optimize new drug discovery processes by analyzing large datasets using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning
  • Bioinformatics and genomic analysis solutions
Preventive Medicine and Wellbeing
  • Products and services focused on preventive and proactive health measures
  • Solutions aimed at promoting healthy lifestyle changes and holistic health approaches
  • Digital products and services designed to support individuals' psychological wellbeing
  • Solutions that improve patient support in the field of immunology.
  • Digital solutions that simplify the diagnostic process for healthcare professionals
  • Technological solutions for the prevention or treatment of various diseases, including genetic disorders and infectious diseases
Sustainability
  • Environmentally friendly software and technology solutions aimed at increasing energy and water efficiency in production
  • AI-based or non-AI-based solutions to monitor energy and water consumption and losses, generate data, and provide recommendations for savings
  • Solutions for reducing water usage in pharmaceutical production processes, as well as recovering and reusing water in production activities
  • Solutions for incorporating alternative energy sources into existing production systems
  • Solutions to implement sustainability principles throughout the supply chain, encouraging and monitoring suppliers' compliance with sustainability standards
Alternative Packaging
  • Solutions aimed at reducing the use of packaging in pharmaceuticals and consumer healthcare
  • Solutions to minimize resource usage
  • Solutions that comply with healthcare regulations and focus on alternative packaging design to reduce the carbon footprint per product, enabling production with less raw materials and resources
  • Products and services that facilitate the tracking of packaging waste generated during production and enable data collection
  • Solutions for the reuse, recycling, or upcycling of packaging waste generated during production in compliance with current regulations
  • Logistics solutions that aid in the efficient management of waste

 

We are looking for innovative, technology-driven, and sustainable solutions across all processes of the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry, from production to marketing.

What should candidates expect
from the program?

  • Doz: Incubation

    Solutions selected for Incubation will receive in-house mentorship, business development training, and product development support for four months, along with Impact Hub Istanbul membership during the program. One solution selected at the end of the program will receive the seed support award.
  • Doz: Corporate Partnership

    Solutions with potential will have the opportunity to join the supplier network and improve their R&D processes by collaborating with Abdi İbrahim’s state-of-the-art laboratories.

Program Timeline

18 Temmuz - 27 Ağustos 2024 Application
Process

27 Ağustos
30 Ekim 2024
Application Evaluation
Process

Kasım 2024
Şubat 2025
Incubation and business
development process

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