Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #41 - Luna C/I: Moon Colonization and Integration
Fly Me To The Moon - The Daily
Students Design Their Future - The Huffington Post
Saturday Testing... - Unreasonable Rocket
Space Access'11 update - RLV News - The early snapshot of speakers with prize connections includes Altius Space Machines, Armadillo Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, Team Prometheus, SpeedUp, and Unreasonable Rocket.
@spacehack: The deadline for the University Rover Challenge is February 15th! http://spacehack.org/project/university-rover-challenge
@wikkit: It looks so much... missilier with the fins on. http://twitpic.com/3xqst8
@jetlab: Santa Monica High 'Catches Next Wave' to Nationals: In a very close competition, Santa Monica High School ... http://bit.ly/g8ysFn
@Prize4Life: A full list of speakers for our briefing on the role of incentive prizes in biomedical innovation: tomorrow at... http://fb.me/MCFo0xkT
@ChallengeGov: Dept. of Defense seeks vehicle body designs. Support their mission and save lives. $10,000 in prizes. http://go.usa.gov/Y7S
@RCSpacePioneers: University of Washington students work on rover electronics with the Rocket City Space Pioneers. http://twitpic.com/3y0itr
@AlanMLadwig: Interesting perspective on Sci Fair winners as champions. Disagree with last sentence. http://wapo.st/geA3B6
Showing posts with label Prize4Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prize4Life. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Prize Roundup: JPL National Science Bowl, Beamed Energy Propulsion, Xoie Art, Glove Project, More
Unreasonable update - RLV News
Move Over, Rover: Next Giant Leap Gets $1 Million Grant To Build Hopping Moon Landers - TechCrunch
National Science Bowl ® - Jet Propulsion Laboratory - JPL is hosting the Southern California regional competition on Saturday, January 22.
Beamed energy propulsion update - RLV News - Jordin Kare from LaserMotive is featured in the article.
@pomerantz: You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we'd sure love to give a prize. Some updates to the prize groups at http://www.xprize.org/
If you check out the Exploration Prize Group, you'll see that one of the proposed prize concepts is
Beamed Power Propulsion
Nearly all launches to date have relied on chemical propulsion, carried on board the vehicle, and thereby sharply reducing payload mass fraction. Beamed power offers a radically alternative launch strategy. Payload launch costs to orbit will drop by a factor of 50 or more. The goal is to launch a 10 Kg payload to a 30Km altitude, deriving 100% of its energy from a ground-based beamed power system. The system must also be reusable and repeatable within 24 hours.
The full set of concepts, covering aviation, space and ocean exploration, includes
The winner of the Space Life competition will be the first team that can create a single or multi-cellular edible organism that can grow under standard Martian surface conditions.
@flyingjenny: My latest creation: a needle felted Xoie by Masten Space Systems, Lunar Lander Challenge winner http://post.ly/1W6VN
See, here's the @Xprize X on Xoie: http://post.ly/1W6jz
From the winner of the Astronaut Glove Challenge:
@pkhomer: Heading home from HOU. Just kicked off a new glove project for @NASA.
@InnoCentiveCEO: Cool! Our new book is on Amazon for pre order even know won't be out for months! http://amzn.to/hn1o4k
@Prize4Life: Support Prize4Life! Contribute to Mark and Lionel’s fundraising effort for the Grand Traverse ski race! http://fb.me/O1oRkrXt
Move Over, Rover: Next Giant Leap Gets $1 Million Grant To Build Hopping Moon Landers - TechCrunch
National Science Bowl ® - Jet Propulsion Laboratory - JPL is hosting the Southern California regional competition on Saturday, January 22.
Beamed energy propulsion update - RLV News - Jordin Kare from LaserMotive is featured in the article.
@pomerantz: You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we'd sure love to give a prize. Some updates to the prize groups at http://www.xprize.org/
If you check out the Exploration Prize Group, you'll see that one of the proposed prize concepts is
Beamed Power Propulsion
Nearly all launches to date have relied on chemical propulsion, carried on board the vehicle, and thereby sharply reducing payload mass fraction. Beamed power offers a radically alternative launch strategy. Payload launch costs to orbit will drop by a factor of 50 or more. The goal is to launch a 10 Kg payload to a 30Km altitude, deriving 100% of its energy from a ground-based beamed power system. The system must also be reusable and repeatable within 24 hours.
The full set of concepts, covering aviation, space and ocean exploration, includes
- Asteroid Deflection
- Beamed Power Propulsion
- Crater Exploration
- Deep Human Submersible
- Electric Aviation
- Lunar Lander
- Ocean Explorer Platform
- Ocean Floor Mapping
- Ocean pH Sensor
- Orbital Debris Removal
- Personal Electric Autonomous Air Transporter
- Reaction Engine
- Suborbital
- Wolfram Physics
The winner of the Space Life competition will be the first team that can create a single or multi-cellular edible organism that can grow under standard Martian surface conditions.
@flyingjenny: My latest creation: a needle felted Xoie by Masten Space Systems, Lunar Lander Challenge winner http://post.ly/1W6VN
See, here's the @Xprize X on Xoie: http://post.ly/1W6jz
From the winner of the Astronaut Glove Challenge:
@pkhomer: Heading home from HOU. Just kicked off a new glove project for @NASA.
@InnoCentiveCEO: Cool! Our new book is on Amazon for pre order even know won't be out for months! http://amzn.to/hn1o4k
@Prize4Life: Support Prize4Life! Contribute to Mark and Lionel’s fundraising effort for the Grand Traverse ski race! http://fb.me/O1oRkrXt
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Prize Roundup: Human Space Flight Plans, Snagged Elevator, T-Rex for PAXP, NASA Clickworkers, Chibots Robomagellan, MoonBot team, ARCA Plans, more
The "Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee is conducting
Here is an excerpt from the slides from the Cocoa Beach, FL public meeting held on July 30:
"Snagged again" - The Space Elevator Blog
2009 Space Elevator Conference - August 13-16, Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, Washington. I'm not sure if any teams will be ready for the event, but here's what the conference says about it:
@ARCAspace - @mihaifanache Seriously. If not in September, then in October. Fingers crossed. Then we're aiming for the Moon in Google Lunar X Prize :)
We started our first countdown: 6 days till http://www.arcalunar.com enlists you for the ride of your life! English version soon!
@Pomerantz -Just noticed that #NGLLC team Masten and #GLXP @TeamFREDNET had dinner together last night. Cool cross-fertilization!
Not only that, but
@teamfrednet - Fred and Wade had dinner with @dmasten last night. Rumors say it included karaoke!
Masten Space gets permit for untethered flights at Mojave - RLV News
NASA/Armadillo paper on LO2 / LCH4 engine tests - RLV News
@PeterDiamandis - success again on Rocket Racing test flights. multiple mid-air relights today. hats off to Armadillo team!
Vicki L. Sato, PhD, and David Meeker, M.D., Join Prize4Life’s Board of Directors (PDF) - Prize4Life press release
Do you want to win $30 million from Google? - BlueToothKiwi - Blog of a LEGO MINDSTORMS MCP - This is on some work by a new MoonBots team. The video from their initial prototype shows they already have the water discovery bonus prize well in hand!
Robomagellan - Chibots:
Clickworkers - NASA Needs Your Help! - Perspectives on Innovation (Innocentive)
Also see HiRISE Clickworkers - Spacehack
The Progressive Automotive X PRIZE twitter had quite a few tweats recently, including:
progautoxp - This one comes with video (vroom). OptaMotive's Electric T-Rex wants a bite of the X-Prize http://bit.ly/Cyoev
an independent review of ongoing U.S. human space flight plans and programs, as well as alternatives
Here is an excerpt from the slides from the Cocoa Beach, FL public meeting held on July 30:
Many tools available: straight purchase, Space Act agreements, COTS-like cost-sharing agreements, fixed-price contracts where NASA pays but contractor takes risk, prizes to get "out of the box" technologies, etc.
"Snagged again" - The Space Elevator Blog
2009 Space Elevator Conference - August 13-16, Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, Washington. I'm not sure if any teams will be ready for the event, but here's what the conference says about it:
Tether Strength Competition - this year's conference will host the Elevator:2010 Challenge Tether Strength Competition. Tether competition team members get free admission to the conference the day of the competition (Friday, August 14th).
@ARCAspace - @mihaifanache Seriously. If not in September, then in October. Fingers crossed. Then we're aiming for the Moon in Google Lunar X Prize :)
We started our first countdown: 6 days till http://www.arcalunar.com enlists you for the ride of your life! English version soon!
@Pomerantz -Just noticed that #NGLLC team Masten and #GLXP @TeamFREDNET had dinner together last night. Cool cross-fertilization!
Not only that, but
@teamfrednet - Fred and Wade had dinner with @dmasten last night. Rumors say it included karaoke!
Masten Space gets permit for untethered flights at Mojave - RLV News
NASA/Armadillo paper on LO2 / LCH4 engine tests - RLV News
@PeterDiamandis - success again on Rocket Racing test flights. multiple mid-air relights today. hats off to Armadillo team!
Vicki L. Sato, PhD, and David Meeker, M.D., Join Prize4Life’s Board of Directors (PDF) - Prize4Life press release
Do you want to win $30 million from Google? - BlueToothKiwi - Blog of a LEGO MINDSTORMS MCP - This is on some work by a new MoonBots team. The video from their initial prototype shows they already have the water discovery bonus prize well in hand!
Robomagellan - Chibots:
It is official, Chibots will be holding our Robomagellan contest on August 15th 2009. Set-up will be at 10:30 A.M. with the contest srtarting at 1:30 P.M. The contest will be held at Moraine Valley Community College.
Clickworkers - NASA Needs Your Help! - Perspectives on Innovation (Innocentive)
Also see HiRISE Clickworkers - Spacehack
The Progressive Automotive X PRIZE twitter had quite a few tweats recently, including:
progautoxp - This one comes with video (vroom). OptaMotive's Electric T-Rex wants a bite of the X-Prize http://bit.ly/Cyoev
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Non-Space Prize Roundup - June 13, 2009
February 2009 - Geotagged Photo Contest Winners - Panoramio - The image on the right is one of the honorable mentions. As usual, I pick one that makes me think of space for some reason - in this case because it seems like a satellite image. Also as usual, you'll want to check out the full set in full resolution and within the geospatial applications. Note: Because the winners are announced in a later month, I'm almost caught up! These were posted on May 7.X PRIZE Cars blog is back:
Automotive X Prize News: May 27th, 2009
Automotive X Prize News: June 5th, 2009
From MIT News:
'Bother bots' win the day - Annual 2.007 robot competition features good defense
Husk Insulation wins $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize - Team from University of Michigan focused on advanced bio-based insulation
Ksplice software update project wins $100K competition - Global Cycle bike adapter is audience pick
Top honors this year in the 20th annual MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition went to Ksplice, a system that promises to end the annoyance and delays of having to reboot a computer every time a new update is installed. ...
Global Bicycle Solutions, winner of the audience choice award, has developed a simple system that can be attached to an ordinary bicycle to enable its pedal power to be used for other functions, such as removing kernels from corn, grinding grain or charging cell phones.
MassChallenge ~ Commonwealth Venture Funds! - Maximizing Progress
MassChallenge -
We propose using a combination of public and private funds to catalyze growth and jobs by launching a $25M dollar Venture Funds Competition in Massachusetts across 6 tracks:
- Healthcare, and Life Sciences
- IT, Software, and Gaming
- Clean Technology and Energy
- Social Development and Non-profit
- Open Category, Seed Stage
- Open Category, Expansion Stage
A Venture Funds Competition combines the collaborative, educational and catalytic impact of a business plan competition with the business and job creation of a seed fund.
Gleanings from X Prize/I2I - MIT Ideas Global Challenge
From Prize4Life:
Prize4Life and the Alzheimer Research Forum Announce Launch of New Web-Portal for ALS Research - Prize4Life and the Alzheimer Research Forum announce the release of the ALS Forum (www.ResearchALS.org) ...
$1M Biomarker Prize Challenge re-posted on InnoCentive - Prize4Life's $1 million ALS Biomarker Prize has re-opened. The goal of this prize competition is to discover a biomarker of ALS disease progression that can reduce the time and cost of clinical trials.
Recall that Prize4Life recently awarded 2 prizes for progress towards the Biomarker goal. Now the prize has a rolling deadline (first-to-win).
Prize4Life News Digest - 6/10
Prize4Life News Digest - 6/3
Prize4Life News Digest - 5/28
Prize4Life News Digest
From the X PRIZE Foundation News Scroller:
Gene sequencing will cost $1,000 in about 2 years, scientists predict - Boston Herald.com
Don't Let Innovation Go Over Your Head - 1to1 media
incentive2innovate - Peter Diamandis and Matt Bross - Business Strategy Innovation
Thursday, April 30, 2009
ALS Biomarker Prize Awards
Prizes Awarded! - Prize4Life Blog - From the press release (PDF) -
InnoCentive, Inc. ... and Prize4Life ... announced that prizes totaling $100,000 will be awarded to two InnoCentive Solvers.
...
To recognize their significant accomplishments, Prize4Life will honor the recipients at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Seattle, WA.
...
The two winning solvers have shown significant progress in identifying biomarkers for ALS, but a validated biomarker that meets all of Prize4Life’s stated criteria has yet to be found. Therefore, in commemoration of Prize4Life’s third anniversary, the Prize4Life ALS Biomarker Challenge will reopen May 15, 2009 with a rolling deadline until closing October 2010.
InnoCentive, Inc. ... and Prize4Life ... announced that prizes totaling $100,000 will be awarded to two InnoCentive Solvers.
...
To recognize their significant accomplishments, Prize4Life will honor the recipients at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Seattle, WA.
...
The two winning solvers have shown significant progress in identifying biomarkers for ALS, but a validated biomarker that meets all of Prize4Life’s stated criteria has yet to be found. Therefore, in commemoration of Prize4Life’s third anniversary, the Prize4Life ALS Biomarker Challenge will reopen May 15, 2009 with a rolling deadline until closing October 2010.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Prize Roundup - April 22, 2009
Updates from the National Space Society (NSS) Space Elevator Team - Space Elevator Blog
Be an Integral Astronomer - Competition - SpaceRef - Participants will use data obtained by the Integral space observatory to investigate objects in one of the most active regions of our Galaxy.
Here's the ESA page for this competition. From the "Your Mission" link: Your mission is to examine INTEGRAL observations of variable X-ray sources in the Galactic Bulge, to interpret the data, to search for evidence of variability, and to report on your research.
Briefs: High power plasma thruster; Odyssey Moon - RLV News
Prize4Life Introduction from CEO Avi Kremer - Prize4Life Blog - In its almost three years of existence, Prize4Life has already become a major player in ALS. We’re funding two one million dollar prizes that each address significant research gaps.
The "Prize" in Prize4Life - Prize4Life Blog - The first prize that we launched was the ALS Biomarker Prize Challenge ... We are now excited to announce that we have received 12 submissions for the ALS Biomarker Prize challenge, all of which have been reviewed by our Scientific Advisory Board. ... teams competing come from ... Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Russia, and the US. We will be making a public announcement regarding the status of this prize challenge in two weeks, so tune back into this blog for further updates.
Be an Integral Astronomer - Competition - SpaceRef - Participants will use data obtained by the Integral space observatory to investigate objects in one of the most active regions of our Galaxy.
Here's the ESA page for this competition. From the "Your Mission" link: Your mission is to examine INTEGRAL observations of variable X-ray sources in the Galactic Bulge, to interpret the data, to search for evidence of variability, and to report on your research.
Briefs: High power plasma thruster; Odyssey Moon - RLV News
Prize4Life Introduction from CEO Avi Kremer - Prize4Life Blog - In its almost three years of existence, Prize4Life has already become a major player in ALS. We’re funding two one million dollar prizes that each address significant research gaps.
The "Prize" in Prize4Life - Prize4Life Blog - The first prize that we launched was the ALS Biomarker Prize Challenge ... We are now excited to announce that we have received 12 submissions for the ALS Biomarker Prize challenge, all of which have been reviewed by our Scientific Advisory Board. ... teams competing come from ... Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Russia, and the US. We will be making a public announcement regarding the status of this prize challenge in two weeks, so tune back into this blog for further updates.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Prize Roundup - April 11, 2009
Ok, I'm back online. I'm going to make this a RoundUp post to cover the last few days.
Top teams set for final round of Team America Rocketry Challenge - Rocketry Planet (AIA press release) -
The top 100 student rocketry teams in the country are ready for the final round of competition of the Team America Rocketry Challenge next month after AIA announced the qualifiers for the fly-off on Friday.
Here are the finalists. Is a high school near you one of them?
Robert Richards and Odyssey Moon BOTH nominated for World Technology Awards! - Odyssey Moon (Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams site)
Robots: The Race to the Moon - Robots Podcast -
In this episode, we take-off for the moon with Prof. William "Red" Whittaker who is the director of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University in the US.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! - SEDS INDIA blog -
Congratulations to SEDS VIT for winning "The Best Student Chapter Award" of VIT University, Vellore for the year 2008-09.
Spacehack now has an entry on the Regolith Excavation Challenge.
X PRIZE Foundation, WellPoint, to Announce Initial Design for Potential $10 Million X PRIZE to Revolutionize U.S. Health Care - X PRIZE Foundation
Prize4Life Interview with Makers of ALS Film Trapped - Prize4Life blog
RLV News has a number of prize posts, including several on the Space Access '09 conference:
Symantec contest awards ZERO-G & suborbital space flights Space Access'09 review - Space prizes and prize teams appear throughout the conference summary, links, and slide presentation.
Briefs: Space Adventures interview; Space border; SA'09 picts -The Space Access '09 pictures include a bunch of the Lunar Lander Challenge panel.
Briefs: Microlaunchers; Orphans of Apollo - A link to the Space Access '09 Microlaunchers N-Prize talk is included.
BonNova SA'09 presentation
Top teams set for final round of Team America Rocketry Challenge - Rocketry Planet (AIA press release) -
The top 100 student rocketry teams in the country are ready for the final round of competition of the Team America Rocketry Challenge next month after AIA announced the qualifiers for the fly-off on Friday.
Here are the finalists. Is a high school near you one of them?
Robert Richards and Odyssey Moon BOTH nominated for World Technology Awards! - Odyssey Moon (Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams site)
Robots: The Race to the Moon - Robots Podcast -
In this episode, we take-off for the moon with Prof. William "Red" Whittaker who is the director of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University in the US.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! - SEDS INDIA blog -
Congratulations to SEDS VIT for winning "The Best Student Chapter Award" of VIT University, Vellore for the year 2008-09.
Spacehack now has an entry on the Regolith Excavation Challenge.
X PRIZE Foundation, WellPoint, to Announce Initial Design for Potential $10 Million X PRIZE to Revolutionize U.S. Health Care - X PRIZE Foundation
Prize4Life Interview with Makers of ALS Film Trapped - Prize4Life blog
RLV News has a number of prize posts, including several on the Space Access '09 conference:
Symantec contest awards ZERO-G & suborbital space flights Space Access'09 review - Space prizes and prize teams appear throughout the conference summary, links, and slide presentation.
Briefs: Space Adventures interview; Space border; SA'09 picts -The Space Access '09 pictures include a bunch of the Lunar Lander Challenge panel.
Briefs: Microlaunchers; Orphans of Apollo - A link to the Space Access '09 Microlaunchers N-Prize talk is included.
BonNova SA'09 presentation
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Prize4Life Activity
Prize4Life, which offers innovation prizes for combating ALS, has several events planned:
BLOG LAUNCH APRIL 6th! - Welcome to the Prize4Life Blog. The blog launch is set for Monday, April 6th with unique content that can't be found anywhere else about Trapped, a short film profiling an musician who won't let ALS stop him.
The blog will publish new content from members of the Prize4Life and larger ALS communities. New content will be fresh an regularly posted. Please subscribe and become a follower of the blog to keep up with what's new!
Prize4Life Celebrates 3rd Birthday! - On May 15th, Prize4Life is celebrating our 3rd birthday! Check out our Guest Book to see who is celebrating with us and to see progress toward our $30,000 Birthday Party goal to help accelerate the discovery of a treatment and a cure for ALS.
Prize4Life Exhibiting in Seattle - Prize4Life is exhibiting at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, April 25 - May 2 in Seattle, WA. If you'll be at the meeting, stop by booth 2308a to say hello and to hear about some of the exciting projects we're working on.
Event in Culver City, California - Culver City, CA -- Join us for a dinner and wine tasting to celebrate the premiere of "Trapped," a short film about ALS! ... The event will include a gourmet four-course meal, including three wine tastings with each course. Tickets are $120 per person, $200 per couple. ...
BLOG LAUNCH APRIL 6th! - Welcome to the Prize4Life Blog. The blog launch is set for Monday, April 6th with unique content that can't be found anywhere else about Trapped, a short film profiling an musician who won't let ALS stop him.
The blog will publish new content from members of the Prize4Life and larger ALS communities. New content will be fresh an regularly posted. Please subscribe and become a follower of the blog to keep up with what's new!
Prize4Life Celebrates 3rd Birthday! - On May 15th, Prize4Life is celebrating our 3rd birthday! Check out our Guest Book to see who is celebrating with us and to see progress toward our $30,000 Birthday Party goal to help accelerate the discovery of a treatment and a cure for ALS.
Prize4Life Exhibiting in Seattle - Prize4Life is exhibiting at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, April 25 - May 2 in Seattle, WA. If you'll be at the meeting, stop by booth 2308a to say hello and to hear about some of the exciting projects we're working on.
Event in Culver City, California - Culver City, CA -- Join us for a dinner and wine tasting to celebrate the premiere of "Trapped," a short film about ALS! ... The event will include a gourmet four-course meal, including three wine tastings with each course. Tickets are $120 per person, $200 per couple. ...
Saturday, October 25, 2008
New ALS Prize for Life
Help Mouse with Lou Gehrig's Disease. Win $1 Million. - Newsweek blog - This is on a new $1M ALS treatment prize from Prize4Life, not the existing $1M ALS diagnostics prize:
The first $1 million prize that Prize4Life dangled in front of scientists was for a biomarker of the disease—some measurable protein or other biochemical that scientists can measure and that indicates whether an experimental drug is having an effect on ALS. That should reduce the cost of clinical trials, “de-risking” them somewhat and thereby attracting more biotech or pharma companies to the field. It has attracted about 50 teams, Leitner says, including those pursuing “out of the box” ideas.
The prize announced today is for the discovery of a compound that extends life in mice with two different mouse versions of ALS by 25 percent.
Prize4Life Launches $1 Million Prize for Finding Novel Treatment Candidates for ALS (PDF) - Prize4Life:
In addition to posting the million-dollar prize, Prize4Life has also pledged to spend up to $500,000 additional dollars for independent validation of therapies that meet the bar set by the treatment prize ... The ALS Treatment Prize will have a rolling deadline. If no winning solutions are submitted, the prize will be closed to further submissions in October 2010.
The deadline for the Biomarker prize is November 6, 2008.
The first $1 million prize that Prize4Life dangled in front of scientists was for a biomarker of the disease—some measurable protein or other biochemical that scientists can measure and that indicates whether an experimental drug is having an effect on ALS. That should reduce the cost of clinical trials, “de-risking” them somewhat and thereby attracting more biotech or pharma companies to the field. It has attracted about 50 teams, Leitner says, including those pursuing “out of the box” ideas.
The prize announced today is for the discovery of a compound that extends life in mice with two different mouse versions of ALS by 25 percent.
Prize4Life Launches $1 Million Prize for Finding Novel Treatment Candidates for ALS (PDF) - Prize4Life:
In addition to posting the million-dollar prize, Prize4Life has also pledged to spend up to $500,000 additional dollars for independent validation of therapies that meet the bar set by the treatment prize ... The ALS Treatment Prize will have a rolling deadline. If no winning solutions are submitted, the prize will be closed to further submissions in October 2010.
The deadline for the Biomarker prize is November 6, 2008.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Prize4Life Donation Effort
Prize4Life is looking for lots of unique donations (they don't have to be large) so they can win $50,000.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Prize4Life Anniversary
Prize4Life, the organization that
seeks to create breakthroughs in effective ALS/MND (Lou Gehrig's disease) treatments using the leverage of large inducement prizes,
celebrated the first anniversary of their ALS Biomarker Prize (worth $1M dollars) a bit over a month ago.
seeks to create breakthroughs in effective ALS/MND (Lou Gehrig's disease) treatments using the leverage of large inducement prizes,
celebrated the first anniversary of their ALS Biomarker Prize (worth $1M dollars) a bit over a month ago.
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Prize4Life Dollars4Life Against ALS
Prize4Life has a post about the founder of that organization, Avi Kremer, and his fight against ALS. He's asking for $1 donations to the prize foundation, a
non-profit organization that seeks to create breakthroughs in effective ALS/MND (Lou Gehrig's disease) treatments using the leverage of large inducement prizes. Inspired by the success of other inducement prizes, Prize4Life recently launched a $1 Million ALS/MND Biomarker Challenge to stimulate scientific breakthroughs in ALS/MND. The organization will be launching several other multi-million dollar challenges in the near future.
Here's there Dollar4Life site, and you can see portraits of people who are fighting ALS here. Each dollar donated lights up another pixel in the portraits.
non-profit organization that seeks to create breakthroughs in effective ALS/MND (Lou Gehrig's disease) treatments using the leverage of large inducement prizes. Inspired by the success of other inducement prizes, Prize4Life recently launched a $1 Million ALS/MND Biomarker Challenge to stimulate scientific breakthroughs in ALS/MND. The organization will be launching several other multi-million dollar challenges in the near future.
Here's there Dollar4Life site, and you can see portraits of people who are fighting ALS here. Each dollar donated lights up another pixel in the portraits.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Article on Prize4Life (ALS Prize Competition)
Prize4Life, the innovation incentive prize to combat ALS, is the subject of an article in Haaretz.com. The article focuses on Avichai Kremer, founder of Prize4Life, and how he went about creating Prize4Life when he found he had ALS.
Monday, July 02, 2007
KEI on Prize4Life
The KEI Policy Blog posts on a medical science prize, Prize4Life, modeled after the X PRIZE, for solving problems related to ALS. According to the Boston Globe, they've raised $4.5 million. One way they attract donors is to promise to return the donor money if the prize isn't won. Their first large prize, the ALS/MND Biomarker Challenge, is for $1 million. It can be found at Innocentive. See more from Innocentive here.
The Boston Globe article notes that drug companies avoid ALS research because the risk is too high.
Find out more at the Prize4Life site. Some excerpts from the site:
"The Prize4Life concept is inspired by other prize awards for stimulating research, such as the X-Prize for commercial space travel and DNA-decoding, the U.S. government’s H-Prize for hydrogen renewable energy, and Eli Lilly’s venture, InnoCentive, which outsources difficult R&D problems to a distributed network of scientists using prizes."
"What will we offer prizes for?
1) Biomarker/diagnostic tool: a test or exam that will allow us to measure how good a potential ALS/MND treatment is much more precisely than just measuring patient survival.
2) High Throughput Screening for ALS/MND: a lab experiment that allows the fast and cheap testing of large numbers of chemical compounds for their potential as ALS/MND drugs.
3) New Treatment Therapies: new drugs that extend the life of ALS/MND patients by significantly compared to the current standard ALS/MND therapy."
Here's more from the Wired Blog, including some congratulations from the X PRIZE Foundation in the comments.
Here's an article from Yahoo! about Keith Powers from the X PRIZE Foundation moving to the Board of the Prize4Life Foundation.
From Boston Magazine comes an article on the Prize4Life organization and Avi Kremer, including several paragraphs that describe their discussions with the X PRIZE Foundation on making the Prize4Life an X PRIZE. Even if this alliance doesn't work (and it makes a lot of sense to me to consolidate some of the prizes that are out there under organizations that have track histories, experience, already-existing overhead costs that can be shared, and name recognition), hopefully the different non-profit prize organizations (in this particular case and others) can be mutually supportive in other ways (news, exhibits during events, etc). Anyway here's the excerpt:
"Finally, you have to wonder whether patients’ fear might lead them to make the wrong decisions in their research work. Prize4Life is a case in point: Kremer modeled his organization on the Ansari X Prize competition, which in 2004 granted a $10 million award to the team that realized the long-held goal of private space flight, and last month announced a similar bounty for developing a car that can get 100 miles per gallon. Kremer admired the prize’s ability to stimulate innovation—but pay only for results—in a field that had seemed stagnant; maybe, he thought, prizes could “revolutionize” ALS research in the same way.
So successfully did Prize4Life imitate the X Prize model that Kremer’s people eventually began to talk with its leaders last year about turning his organization into an X Prize for ALS. By joining forces, Prize4Life would have access to more money (the minimum award would be $10 million) and a bigger, better-established operation. Much like Warren Buffett’s giving $36 billion to the Gates Foundation, it appeared to be a natural fit.
The X Prize Foundation was receptive. But its representatives felt strongly that to capture the public’s interest, and that of the very best scientists, the prize had to be linked to breakthroughs in neurodegenerative diseases as a whole. Upon hearing their terms, Kremer declined. He was worried that Prize4Life’s funding and previous work might ultimately go toward research that had no benefit to ALS. Determined to maintain his foundation’s tight focus, he opted to go it alone.
If Prize4Life were subject to a Harvard Business School case study, many students would have urged Kremer to “find synergies” and merge with the X Prize Foundation. But when it’s your life hanging in the balance, your tolerance for risk is greater. After all, for Kremer, what’s there to lose? "
The Boston Globe article notes that drug companies avoid ALS research because the risk is too high.
Find out more at the Prize4Life site. Some excerpts from the site:
"The Prize4Life concept is inspired by other prize awards for stimulating research, such as the X-Prize for commercial space travel and DNA-decoding, the U.S. government’s H-Prize for hydrogen renewable energy, and Eli Lilly’s venture, InnoCentive, which outsources difficult R&D problems to a distributed network of scientists using prizes."
"What will we offer prizes for?
1) Biomarker/diagnostic tool: a test or exam that will allow us to measure how good a potential ALS/MND treatment is much more precisely than just measuring patient survival.
2) High Throughput Screening for ALS/MND: a lab experiment that allows the fast and cheap testing of large numbers of chemical compounds for their potential as ALS/MND drugs.
3) New Treatment Therapies: new drugs that extend the life of ALS/MND patients by significantly compared to the current standard ALS/MND therapy."
Here's more from the Wired Blog, including some congratulations from the X PRIZE Foundation in the comments.
Here's an article from Yahoo! about Keith Powers from the X PRIZE Foundation moving to the Board of the Prize4Life Foundation.
From Boston Magazine comes an article on the Prize4Life organization and Avi Kremer, including several paragraphs that describe their discussions with the X PRIZE Foundation on making the Prize4Life an X PRIZE. Even if this alliance doesn't work (and it makes a lot of sense to me to consolidate some of the prizes that are out there under organizations that have track histories, experience, already-existing overhead costs that can be shared, and name recognition), hopefully the different non-profit prize organizations (in this particular case and others) can be mutually supportive in other ways (news, exhibits during events, etc). Anyway here's the excerpt:
"Finally, you have to wonder whether patients’ fear might lead them to make the wrong decisions in their research work. Prize4Life is a case in point: Kremer modeled his organization on the Ansari X Prize competition, which in 2004 granted a $10 million award to the team that realized the long-held goal of private space flight, and last month announced a similar bounty for developing a car that can get 100 miles per gallon. Kremer admired the prize’s ability to stimulate innovation—but pay only for results—in a field that had seemed stagnant; maybe, he thought, prizes could “revolutionize” ALS research in the same way.
So successfully did Prize4Life imitate the X Prize model that Kremer’s people eventually began to talk with its leaders last year about turning his organization into an X Prize for ALS. By joining forces, Prize4Life would have access to more money (the minimum award would be $10 million) and a bigger, better-established operation. Much like Warren Buffett’s giving $36 billion to the Gates Foundation, it appeared to be a natural fit.
The X Prize Foundation was receptive. But its representatives felt strongly that to capture the public’s interest, and that of the very best scientists, the prize had to be linked to breakthroughs in neurodegenerative diseases as a whole. Upon hearing their terms, Kremer declined. He was worried that Prize4Life’s funding and previous work might ultimately go toward research that had no benefit to ALS. Determined to maintain his foundation’s tight focus, he opted to go it alone.
If Prize4Life were subject to a Harvard Business School case study, many students would have urged Kremer to “find synergies” and merge with the X Prize Foundation. But when it’s your life hanging in the balance, your tolerance for risk is greater. After all, for Kremer, what’s there to lose? "
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