BeHEARD Rare Disease Science Challenge by Rare Genomics Institute & Assay Depot

  Assay Depot and the Rare Genomics Institute have jointed to host the Rare Disease Challenge: Be HEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries) to accelerate rare disease research.

Vote for $10,000 cash prize for research

Other prizes for the Rare Disease Science Challenge Include that are awared already.

$500,000 of Donated Research Services include:

• Mouse Model: Knock-in/Knock-out
• Next Generation Sequencing
• Gene Expression or microRNA Analysis
• Custom Zinc Finger Nuclease
• Human Tissue Functional Assays
• Custom Antibodies
• Preclinical and regulatory drug development consulting
• Bioinformatics: NGS analysis, qPCR, genome alignment

  Contest Timeline:

  Submit your entry:

  2/27 at 1:00pm through 2/28 at 1:00am

  Voting is open:

  2/28 at 1:00am through 3/15 at 1:00am

  Winners announced:

  3/16 at 1:00am

  (All times are EST.)

  
  

  
  

  ASSAY DEPOT PRIZE JUDGES

  • Atul Butte, Stanford School of Medicine
  • John Crowley, Amicus Therapeutics
  • Bernard Munos, Innothink Center for Research
  • Hugh Rienhoff, MyDaughtersDNA.org

   

  EXPERT PANEL JUDGES

  • Amin Zia, PhD / Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Ontario, Canada
  • Andreas Zankl, PhD / The University of Queensland School of Medicine, Brisbane, Australia
  • Andy Golden, PhD / National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
  • Cathleen Lutz, PhD / The Jackson Laboratory, Maine, USA
  • David de Lorenzo, PhD / Nutren-Nutrigenomics, Lleida, Spain
  • David Mittleman, PhD / Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA
  • Kara Bernstein, PhD / University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Ming Guo / Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Needham, MA, USA
  • Mrinmoy Sanyal, PhD / Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
  • Poh Tan, PhD / Innoguidance Consulting, Vancouver, Canada
  • Sean Wu, PhD / Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford
  • Te-Wen Lo, PhD / Meyer Lab, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Tim McCaffrey, PhD / The George Washington University, Washington, USA
  • Timothy Schwartz, PhD / Otogenetics Corporation, Norcross, GA, USA
  • Bradley Smith, PhD / Quntiles Transnational, Massachusetts, USA
  • Brandon Wustman, PhD / Amicus Therapeutics, California, USA
  • Robert Dunstan, PhD / Biogen Idec, Massachusetts, USA
  • Sharon Moulis, PhD / Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Massachusetts, USA
  • Sukirti Bagal, MD, MPH / Pfizer, New York, USA

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    Bronze ($2,500-5,000):
     
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