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     1.4 +#+title: Victory at the Organ Preservation Alliance Global Organ Banking Summit
     1.5 +#+author: Robert McIntyre
     1.6 +#+email: rlm@mit.edu
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    1.10 +#+caption: Trophy from the Organ Preservation Alliance's Global 
    1.11 +#+caption: Organ Banking Summit hackathon competition.  
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    1.14 +[[file:../images/organ-preservation-trophy.png][file:../images/organ-preservation-trophy.jpg]]
    1.15 +
    1.16 +On February 26, 2015 I went to the [[http://www.organpreservationalliance.org/][Organ Preservation Alliance's]]
    1.17 +[[http://www.obs2015.org/][Global Organ Banking Summit]], where I competed in the hackathon
    1.18 +competition with around eight other teams from around the world. The
    1.19 +goal was to come up with promising new areas relating to organ
    1.20 +preservation, with an emphasis on novelty and practicality. Each team
    1.21 +was assigned a professional cryobiologist to help evaluate
    1.22 +ideas. There were three rounds of judging:
    1.23 +
    1.24 +1. An initial review of our ideas where we selected one to develop
    1.25 +   further.
    1.26 +2. Presentation to a selected panel of judges. Only two teams would be
    1.27 +   selected out of the eight from this round.
    1.28 +3. Final presentation to the entire Summit, where all the
    1.29 +   cryobiologists present would determine the winner.
    1.30 +
    1.31 +Our team came up with the idea of poly-vitrification and presented the
    1.32 +following presentation, available here:
    1.33 +[[../ref/2015-McIntyre-OPA-hackathon-presentation.pdf][2015-McIntyre-OPA-hackathon-presentation]].
    1.34 +
    1.35 +Later, we wrote up a summary and published it in an abstract in the
    1.36 +journal Cryobiology: [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011224015001686][Poly-Vitrification Abstract]].
    1.37 +
    1.38 +We gave a really solid presentation and ended up winning the
    1.39 +competition and the prize money, which we split four-ways among our
    1.40 +group members. It was really quite a fun experience!
    1.41 +
    1.42 +