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organ preservation VICTORY
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:05:15 -0800
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1 #+title: Victory at the Organ Preservation Alliance Global Organ Banking Summit
2 #+author: Robert McIntyre
3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu
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7 #+caption: Trophy from the Organ Preservation Alliance's Global
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]]
14 [[http://www.obs2015.org/][Global Organ Banking Summit]], where I competed in the hackathon
15 competition with around eight other teams from around the world. The
16 goal was to come up with promising new areas relating to organ
17 preservation, with an emphasis on novelty and practicality. Each team
18 was assigned a professional cryobiologist to help evaluate
19 ideas. There were three rounds of judging:
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21 1. An initial review of our ideas where we selected one to develop
22 further.
23 2. Presentation to a selected panel of judges. Only two teams would be
24 selected out of the eight from this round.
25 3. Final presentation to the entire Summit, where all the
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
29 following presentation, available here:
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
33 journal Cryobiology: [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011224015001686][Poly-Vitrification Abstract]].
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35 We gave a really solid presentation and ended up winning the
36 competition and the prize money, which we split four-ways among our
37 group members. It was really quite a fun experience!
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