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Brain Preservation Foundation - Prize

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    By brokenportal

    Submitted Feb 25 2012 10:00 PM

http://www.brainpreservation.org/content/technology-prize

"Technology Prize

Prize purse as of Sept 30, 2011:$106,720 US


Prize Overview


The nonprofit Brain Preservation Foundation (BPF) hereby officially announces a cash prize for the first individual or team to rigorously demonstrate a surgical technique capable of inexpensively and completely preserving an entire human brain for long-term (>100 years) storage with such fidelity that the structure of every neuronal process and every synaptic connection remains intact and traceable using today’s electron microscopic (EM) imaging techniques.*

In our analysis, this prize is by no means impossible to win, but neither is it easy to win. Winning will require a significant investment of time and resources, and may take many years to occur if it is not induced with an appropriately sized prize purse. We are actively seeking donors to increase the size of our purse. Please contact us if you can help.

This prize competition is structured into two Stages:

Stage 1- Preservation of an entire mouse brain(or similar small mammalian brain) using a technique that is applicable to a laboratory environment.

Stage 2- Preservation of a large mammalian brain(a pig for example) using a surgical technique meeting all the medical standards necessary for it to be applied (as an elective procedure) to a human patient in a hospital setting, and using a procedure that, with minor modifications, might potentially be offered for less than US$20,000 by appropriately trained medical professionals. The first group to complete Stage 1’s requirements will win 1/4 of the total prize purse accumulated up to that date. The first group to complete Stage 2’s requirements will win the remaining prize purse, or the entire prize purse if no one has previously met Stage 1’s requirements."
<a href="https://www.longecity.org/forum/links/goto/101-brain-preservation-foundation-prize/">Brain Preservation Foundation - Prize</a>
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