Victory at the Organ Preservation Alliance Global Organ Banking Summit
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Figure 1: Trophy from the Organ Preservation Alliance's Global Organ Banking Summit hackathon competition.
rlm@84:rlm@84: On February 26, 2015 I went to the Organ Preservation Alliance's rlm@84: Global Organ Banking Summit, where I competed in the hackathon rlm@84: competition with around eight other teams from around the world. The rlm@84: goal was to come up with promising new areas relating to organ rlm@84: preservation, with an emphasis on novelty and practicality. Each team rlm@84: was assigned a professional cryobiologist to help evaluate rlm@84: ideas. There were three rounds of judging: rlm@84:
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- An initial review of our ideas where we selected one to develop rlm@84: further. rlm@84:
- Presentation to a selected panel of judges. Only two teams would be rlm@84: selected out of the eight from this round. rlm@84:
- Final presentation to the entire Summit, where all the rlm@84: cryobiologists present would determine the winner. rlm@84:
rlm@84: Our team came up with the idea of poly-vitrification and presented the rlm@84: following presentation, available here: rlm@84: 2015-McIntyre-OPA-hackathon-presentation. rlm@84:
rlm@84: rlm@84:rlm@84: Later, we wrote up a summary and published it in an abstract in the rlm@92: journal Cryobiology: Poly-Vitrification Abstract rlm@92: (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.05.062). rlm@84:
rlm@84: rlm@84:rlm@84: We gave a really solid presentation and ended up winning the rlm@84: competition and the prize money, which we split four-ways among our rlm@84: group members. It was really quite a fun experience! rlm@84:
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