RE: [DIYbio] medical research crowd funding

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> From: diybio@googlegroups.com [mailto:diybio@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Stephanie
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 7:46 PM
> To: diybio@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [DIYbio] medical research crowd funding
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> I have begun a web site with the aim of providing crowd funding to
> medical research projects. This idea was prompted by finding out that a
> university group had cured type 1 diabetes in mice, successfully
> completed a phase 1 human clinical trial, and needed funding to
> complete phase 2. I thought there must be quite a few groups out there
> who also need funding. What better way would there be than allowing the
> public to directly have a say in medical research by providing the
> means for them to find, fund, and follow the research that means the
> most to them

You might look at these items and the links therein to various science
crowdfunding ventures in your search for data points:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/06/you-cant-just-kickstart-a-science
-project---it-isnt-that-easy.php

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/03/signs-of-progress-in-crowdsourced
-science-funding.php

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