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Crowdsourcing To Now Be Used in Attacking Disease
A large, multidisciplinary panel has recently selected 12 pioneering ideas for attacking Type 1 Diabetes, ideas selected through a crowdsourcing experiment called the Challenge in which all members of the Harvard community, as well as members of the general public, were invited to answer the question: What do we not know to cure Type 1 Diabetes?
"We wanted to ask the entire Harvard communityfaculty, students, and administrators and staff of all levels and specialtiesto share their 'out of the box' questions and proposals for this challenge, regardless of whether they had the expertise or resources to answer the question," said Harvard Catalyst Director and HMS Dean for Clinical and Translational Research Lee Nadler. "We wanted the participants to apply their insights to a problem that may not have been in their academic or intellectual domain."
Among these winners are a patient, an undergraduate student, an MD/PhD student, a human resources representative, and researchers who are not experts in the field.
Out of 190 entries, 12 were chosen. Each of the winners, who will be formally announced in a ceremony held at Harvard Medical School on September 28, will receive a prize of $2,500. Working with the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Harvard Catalyst plans to solicit research proposals from within the Harvard research community on some or all or the winning questions.
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