X PRIZE Foundation to Help Fight Tuberculosis Worldwide with Gates Foundation Support - X PRIZE Foundation - From the press release:
The X PRIZE Foundation has received a planning grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop an X PRIZE for effective diagnosis of tuberculosis in the developing world. The overall goal of the prize will be to promote better management of the world’s second most lethal infectious disease. Innovation will need to be tailored for the use in under-developed regions, where over 60% of tuberculosis patients have access to only primitive, peripheral health clinics with scarce resources.
Dr. Geesaman from the Foundation says "Because of the existing lack of adequate financial incentives to develop such tests, a prize is an ideal tool to incentivize innovation in this important area."
The press release describes international interest in using prizes for fighting TB. I learned about these developments from the KEI Online site, and James Love from KEI is also featured in the press release.
Since I've posted on this developing prize before, I've made a tag for it.
Here's a link on a 2007 TED Prize Winner. A summary: Photojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that's touching off a global medical crisis. Learn how to help at http://www.xdrtb.org.
On the TED Prizes: The TED Prize was created as a way of taking the inspiration, ideas and resources that are generated at TED and using them to make a difference. Although the winners receive a prize of $100,000 each, that's the least of what they get. The real prize is that they are granted a WISH. A wish to change the world.
Showing posts with label tuberculosis X PRIZE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tuberculosis X PRIZE. Show all posts
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
X PRIZE Foundation September 2008 Newsletter
The latest X PRIZE Foundation email newsletter covers their $25,000 "What's Your Crazy Green Idea" YouTube contest and their investigation of a Tuberculosis Detection prize, two items I've posted about before. I haven't posted on the rest of the content, so I'll include it as I got it below. Your best bet is to sign up at the XPF site for the newsletter so you get all of the content, links, pictures, etc ... and you get it when it comes out.
Unleashing It!
The X PRIZE Lab @ MIT has been invited to participate in the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurship Week. During the week of November 17 - 23, 2008, organizations will conduct a range of activities - from simple speeches to comprehensive competitions - designed to inspire, connect, inform, mentor and engage the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Lab will be spearheading this effort on the MIT campus.
CNBC 5 Part Series on Collaboration
As part of our partnership with BT, CNBC will be airing a 5-part series on collaboration, which will feature the X PRIZE Foundation in several of the episodes. The show, hosted by Donny Deutsch of The Big Idea, is scheduled to air on October 12. A new episode will air the following four Sundays. Check your local listings for show times.
Board Member Update
Dr. Ray Kurzweil will be a headlining speaker at the 2008 Singularity Summit on October 25 in San Jose, CA. The Summit attracts a unique audience to the Bay Area, with visionaries from business, science, technology, philanthropy, the arts, and more. Participants learn where humanity is headed, meet the people leading the way, and leave inspired to create a better future.
Unleashing It!
The X PRIZE Lab @ MIT has been invited to participate in the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurship Week. During the week of November 17 - 23, 2008, organizations will conduct a range of activities - from simple speeches to comprehensive competitions - designed to inspire, connect, inform, mentor and engage the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Lab will be spearheading this effort on the MIT campus.
CNBC 5 Part Series on Collaboration
As part of our partnership with BT, CNBC will be airing a 5-part series on collaboration, which will feature the X PRIZE Foundation in several of the episodes. The show, hosted by Donny Deutsch of The Big Idea, is scheduled to air on October 12. A new episode will air the following four Sundays. Check your local listings for show times.
Board Member Update
Dr. Ray Kurzweil will be a headlining speaker at the 2008 Singularity Summit on October 25 in San Jose, CA. The Summit attracts a unique audience to the Bay Area, with visionaries from business, science, technology, philanthropy, the arts, and more. Participants learn where humanity is headed, meet the people leading the way, and leave inspired to create a better future.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Tuberculosis X PRIZE?
Prize for Tuberculosis - neXt PRIZE:
With all of the awful statistics I've just listed, the saddest part of this is that there is a cure for tuberculosis ready and waiting. The reason that so many people die from this disease is that diagnosing it in third world countries is extraordinarily difficult.
Currently, it takes 3 weeks to get results back for a TB diagnosis in the developing world. Patients have to come in several days in a row to give a saliva sample, and then wait. 10-15% of the patients never come back to receive the results of their test. Untreated, or if treated too late, tuberculosis is deadly.
So it is vital for a fast, easy diagnosis to be created that can be used in the field, and deliver results quickly. So that's why we're exploring ideas for tuberculosis diagnosis.
Update: Here's a relevant paper from KEI: The Role of Prizes in Developing Low-Cost, Point-of-Care Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Better Drugs for Tuberculosis
With all of the awful statistics I've just listed, the saddest part of this is that there is a cure for tuberculosis ready and waiting. The reason that so many people die from this disease is that diagnosing it in third world countries is extraordinarily difficult.
Currently, it takes 3 weeks to get results back for a TB diagnosis in the developing world. Patients have to come in several days in a row to give a saliva sample, and then wait. 10-15% of the patients never come back to receive the results of their test. Untreated, or if treated too late, tuberculosis is deadly.
So it is vital for a fast, easy diagnosis to be created that can be used in the field, and deliver results quickly. So that's why we're exploring ideas for tuberculosis diagnosis.
Update: Here's a relevant paper from KEI: The Role of Prizes in Developing Low-Cost, Point-of-Care Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Better Drugs for Tuberculosis
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Prizes Under Consideration
Welcome to Prize Development - Asher Spittler, Project Manager, Prize Development - neXt PRIZE
The X PRIZE Foundation's neXt PRIZE blog has been keeping a steady stream of posts going. Check it out. Here's an excerpt that shows what kinds of prizes they'd like to offer. Some of them are news to me:
We have several prizes in development at the moment and about once every few days, I (or someone else from Prize Development) intend to blog about what is going on within our pipeline. Currently we have prizes in smoking cessation, longevity, tuberculosis detection, vision restoration, health care informatics, a bionic prize, global development, energy, alternative aviation fuels, biofuels, and an exploration prize that will explore, conserve, heal and help map the ocean floor.
The X PRIZE Foundation's neXt PRIZE blog has been keeping a steady stream of posts going. Check it out. Here's an excerpt that shows what kinds of prizes they'd like to offer. Some of them are news to me:
We have several prizes in development at the moment and about once every few days, I (or someone else from Prize Development) intend to blog about what is going on within our pipeline. Currently we have prizes in smoking cessation, longevity, tuberculosis detection, vision restoration, health care informatics, a bionic prize, global development, energy, alternative aviation fuels, biofuels, and an exploration prize that will explore, conserve, heal and help map the ocean floor.
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