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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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The 1.175 +goal was to come up with promising new areas relating to organ 1.176 +preservation, with an emphasis on novelty and practicality. Each team 1.177 +was assigned a professional cryobiologist to help evaluate 1.178 +ideas. There were three rounds of judging: 1.179 +</p> 1.180 + 1.181 +<ol class="org-ol"> 1.182 +<li>An initial review of our ideas where we selected one to develop 1.183 +further.</li> 1.184 +<li>Presentation to a selected panel of judges. Only two teams would be 1.185 +selected out of the eight from this round.</li> 1.186 +<li>Final presentation to the entire Summit, where all the 1.187 +cryobiologists present would determine the winner.</li> 1.188 +</ol> 1.189 + 1.190 +<p> 1.191 +Our team came up with the idea of poly-vitrification and presented the 1.192 +following presentation, available here: 1.193 +<a href="../ref/2015-McIntyre-OPA-hackathon-presentation.pdf">2015-McIntyre-OPA-hackathon-presentation</a>. 1.194 +</p> 1.195 + 1.196 +<p> 1.197 +Later, we wrote up a summary and published it in an abstract in the 1.198 +journal Cryobiology: <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011224015001686">Poly-Vitrification Abstract</a>. 1.199 +</p> 1.200 + 1.201 +<p> 1.202 +We gave a really solid presentation and ended up winning the 1.203 +competition and the prize money, which we split four-ways among our 1.204 +group members. 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