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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]]

    12 

    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:

    20 

    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.

    27 

    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]].

    31 

    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 (doi:10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.05.062).

    35 

    36 We gave a really solid presentation and ended up winning the

    37 competition and the prize money, which we split four-ways among our

    38 group members. It was really quite a fun experience!

    39 

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author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Tue, 03 Nov 2015 21:07:52 -0800
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