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   142 <h1 class="title">Victory at the Organ Preservation Alliance Global Organ Banking Summit</h1>

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   155 <div class="author">Written by: <author>

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   157 Robert McIntyre

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   163 <p><a href="../images/organ-preservation-trophy.png"><img src="../images/organ-preservation-trophy.jpg" alt="organ-preservation-trophy.jpg" /></a>

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   165 <p><span class="figure-number">Figure 1:</span> Trophy from the Organ Preservation Alliance's Global Organ Banking Summit hackathon competition.</p>

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   168 <p>

   169 On February 26, 2015 I went to the <a href="http://www.organpreservationalliance.org/">Organ Preservation Alliance's</a>

   170 <a href="http://www.obs2015.org/">Global Organ Banking Summit</a>, where I competed in the hackathon

   171 competition with around eight other teams from around the world. The

   172 goal was to come up with promising new areas relating to organ

   173 preservation, with an emphasis on novelty and practicality. Each team

   174 was assigned a professional cryobiologist to help evaluate

   175 ideas. There were three rounds of judging:

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   178 <ol class="org-ol">

   179 <li>An initial review of our ideas where we selected one to develop

   180 further.</li>

   181 <li>Presentation to a selected panel of judges. Only two teams would be

   182 selected out of the eight from this round.</li>

   183 <li>Final presentation to the entire Summit, where all the

   184 cryobiologists present would determine the winner.</li>

   185 </ol>

   186 

   187 <p>

   188 Our team came up with the idea of poly-vitrification and presented the

   189 following presentation, available here:

   190 <a href="../ref/2015-McIntyre-OPA-hackathon-presentation.pdf">2015-McIntyre-OPA-hackathon-presentation</a>.

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   193 <p>

   194 Later, we wrote up a summary and published it in an abstract in the

   195 journal Cryobiology: <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011224015001686">Poly-Vitrification Abstract</a>.

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   198 <p>

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

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

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

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author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:06:38 -0800
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