The LLB Austria Future Award was presented for the second time in a festive setting at the Albertina. The 2025 winner is Daniela Buchmayr, founder and CEO of the young deep tech company Sarcura. The experienced founder, her management colleagues co-founders Erwin Gorjup, Chief Scientific Officer, Gerald Kreindl, Chief Technology Officer, and the 25-person team have set themselves the goal of using industrial methods to make cell therapy more efficient, because the latter is the most effective cancer therapy , but also the most expensive. With their broad qualifications in the areas of cell biology, electronics, mechatronics, photonics, materials science, semiconductors, life science and biopharma industries, they are developing a machine platform for the production of personalized cell therapies. Sarcura integrates semiconductor technology to enable real-time control at the cell level as part of the biopharmaceutical manufacturing process. The subsequent miniaturization of purification and industrial automation make the production of cell therapeutics safer, more cost-effective and, in the future, accessible and affordable as a personalized mass product for many affected people. “We are very happy and proud that our work was recognized and that we were able to accept this prize“, with Daniela Buchmayr.
“Help shape the future today, achieve more together” – with this in mind, Liechtensteinische Landesbank (Österreich) AG has launched the LLB Austria Future Award“, says Robert Löw, CEO of Liechtensteinische Landesbank (Österreich) AG, and continues “With this award we want to support personalities who are setting the course for the generations of tomorrow with their initiatives or products today. “
The top-class jury consisting of Selma Prodanovic (jury president, founder, Brainswork and 1Million Startups), Dr. Henrietta Egerth, (Managing Director, Austrian Research Promotion Agency), Dipl.-Ing. Iris Ortner, (Managing Director, IGO Industries Group), Dr. Markus Bürger (Secretary General, Austrian Council for Sustainable Development) and Mag. Dejan Jovicevic (Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Der Brutkasten) this time focused on the scientific area. “Austria has a large number of excellent companies that play pioneering roles in the field of science. The approach of democratizing cell therapy and thus creating an impact that extends far beyond the Austrian borders made us decide in favor of Sarcura CEO Let Daniela Buchmayr and her team meet“, the jury members agreed.
LLB Austria Future Award
The prize is awarded to a personality who has made outstanding contributions to sustainability, innovation or social responsibility. The selection is based on the model of the Nobel Prize by the independent jury, which is based on an SDG/ESG approach. What is honored is not the past, but the starting point for the future. The LLB Austria Future Award is intended to help pass on knowledge and experience to the next generation.
The total value of the prize money is EUR 30,000 and is made up of two parts: EUR 20,000 as a cash amount (for what has been achieved so far and the transfer of knowledge and experience to the next generation) and EUR 10,000 as an LLB amount in kind in the form of communication services during the year To provide communicative support to the award winner and the progress of his project.
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Liechtensteinische Landesbank (Österreich) AG is Austria’s leading asset management bank with assets under management of over EUR 32 billion (as of December 31, 2023) and more than 220 employees. As a 100 percent subsidiary of Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG (LLB), Vaduz, LLB Austria also benefits from the stability and excellent creditworthiness of its owner and can rely on over 160 years of experience from the most traditional financial institution in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Since 2009, Austria has been one of the three declared home markets of the LLB Group, alongside Liechtenstein and Switzerland.