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organ preservation VICTORY
| author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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| 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 | |
| 4 #+setupfile: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org | |
| 5 #+include: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org | |
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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]]. | |
| 34 | |
| 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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