Tag: challenge
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Nature, Merck Establish Science Entrepreneur Prize
The scientific publisher Springer Nature and drug maker Merck are creating an annual award for early-stage companies spun-off from academic research.
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Challenge Seeks Circular Economy Start-Ups
A challenge competition is seeking new businesses that disrupt the plastics recycling and energy storage industries with ideas based on a circular economy.
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Federal Agency Holds A.I.-Health Outcomes Challenge
The U.S. agency directing Medicare and Medicaid is sponsoring a challenge competition to spur development of artificial intelligence to predict health care outcomes.
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App Created for New, Pregnant Moms in Opioid Recovery
A smartphone app is being developed to help pregnant women and new mothers with an opioid addiction, by a medical professor and health care technology company.
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Infectious Disease Sequencing Service, Training Launched
A cloud-based open-source genomic sequencing program is underway to identify the source and nature of infectious diseases anywhere in the world.
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Fully Biodegradable Plastic Straws in Testing
A university research center and biodegradable plastics company are testing a new type of drink straw that degrades completely after use in normal soil and water conditions.
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Challenges Seek Solutions for Chronic Diseases, Oral Drugs in Animals
Two new crowdsourcing competitions announced this week are seeking ideas on broadening the scope of drugs being developed for companion animals, and making drugs easier to give to pets and farm animals.
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Pharma Maker Crowdsourcing for Drug Delivery Partners
The global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is looking for collaborators to develop treatments for disease using nucleic acids delivered with cell-penetrating peptides.
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Online Game Harnessed to Combat Foodborne Toxins
A consortium of companies and university labs is recruiting participants in an online computer game to design synthetic proteins to neutralize a toxin that contaminates food crops.
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Smartphone Data Reveal Physical Activity Worldwide
A data science team tapped into smartphones of more than 717,000 people worldwide to capture the number of steps they take each day as an indicator of physical activity.