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Gotham prize for cancer research

From this week's Nature, News in Brief (447, 519; 2007).
US hedge-fund managers have teamed up with scientists to launch a competition for the next big idea in cancer research. Applicants must first be accepted by an Internet-based club , whose membership will be vetted by a scientific advisory panel that includes cancer experts such as Bert Vogelstein of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland. Members can then submit their idea — in fewer than 1,000 words — for a research project in basic cancer research, or in cancer diagnosis, prevention or treatment.
The person whose idea is judged to have the greatest potential will win US$1 million, even if they will not themselves be carrying out the research to test it. Another prize of $250,000 will be given in paediatric oncology. The ideas that emerge will be shared with other cancer-research funders.
The organizers say that current funding opportunities tend not to support untested ideas and that the annual Gotham prize will help fill this gap.

Posted by Maxine Clarke on May 31, 2007
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Whatever happened with this 'Gotham Prize' anyway, does anyone know?

It was supposed to be announced in February, right? This is March, wonder if they just abandoned it?

Anyone know . . . ?

Posted by: R. Clemens | March 5, 2008 08:35 PM

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