U-M team wins national prize for research crowd funding software

If this concept goes far enough, a prize-winning platform developed at U-M could be the Kickstarter for the medical community.

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"Crowd funding is all the rage these days, with everyone from charities to start-up companies offering ways for masses of people to kick in small amounts of money that together can make big things happen.

But could that concept work for medical research?

A University of Michigan Health System team wants to find out – and  they have just won a national prize  for their prototype of a web-based platform to do it."

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