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1 #+title: Victory at the Organ Preservation Alliance Global Organ Banking Summit
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2 #+author: Robert McIntyre
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3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu
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4 #+setupfile: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
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5 #+include: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
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7 #+caption: Trophy from the Organ Preservation Alliance's Global
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8 #+caption: Organ Banking Summit hackathon competition.
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11 [[file:../images/organ-preservation-trophy.png][file:../images/organ-preservation-trophy.jpg]]
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13 On February 26, 2015 I went to the [[http://www.organpreservationalliance.org/][Organ Preservation Alliance's]]
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14 [[http://www.obs2015.org/][Global Organ Banking Summit]], where I competed in the hackathon
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15 competition with around eight other teams from around the world. The
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16 goal was to come up with promising new areas relating to organ
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17 preservation, with an emphasis on novelty and practicality. Each team
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18 was assigned a professional cryobiologist to help evaluate
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19 ideas. There were three rounds of judging:
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20
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21 1. An initial review of our ideas where we selected one to develop
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22 further.
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23 2. Presentation to a selected panel of judges. Only two teams would be
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24 selected out of the eight from this round.
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25 3. Final presentation to the entire Summit, where all the
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26 cryobiologists present would determine the winner.
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28 Our team came up with the idea of poly-vitrification and presented the
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29 following presentation, available here:
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30 [[../ref/2015-McIntyre-OPA-hackathon-presentation.pdf][2015-McIntyre-OPA-hackathon-presentation]].
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32 Later, we wrote up a summary and published it in an abstract in the
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33 journal Cryobiology: [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011224015001686][Poly-Vitrification Abstract]]
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34 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.05.062).
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36 We gave a really solid presentation and ended up winning the
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37 competition and the prize money, which we split four-ways among our
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38 group members. It was really quite a fun experience!
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