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. Excerpt: "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." More here.
If this concept goes far enough, a prize-winning platform developed at U-M could be the Kickstarter for the medical community.
Excerpt:
“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.”
More here.
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