The Summit on Organ Banking through Converging Technologies will bring together leading scientists and engineers, as well as other key stakeholders from government, industry, academia, and the nonprofit sector, to address the challenge of banking organs and large tissue systems for transplantation, research, regenerative medicine, and other applications. Together they will outline new and emerging research strategies that can overcome the remaining scientific sub-challenges in organ banking, benefiting millions of patients each year worldwide.
| Full Summit (professional) |
$715.00 |
| Full Summit (student) | $325.00 |
| Single Day (professional) | $250.00 |
| Single Day (student) | $115.00 |
| Hackathon | Free* |
Leading up to and during the Organ Banking Summit, teams of young investigators will have the opportuntity to develop ideas that could lead to the next "breakthrough" in organ banking, presented to cryobiologists.
Teams will compete for a first prize of $10,000, as well as matchmaking support and (when appropriate) grantwriting help for teams that want to take their ideas further. Entrants will be mentored by leading researchers in cryopreservation and related fields, receiving a "crash course" in the organ banking and its intersection with many disciplines in engineering, medicine and biology. Teams will present their ideas to a panel of senior cryobiologists during the Organ Banking Summit, and two finalist teams will present to the entire summit.
Last competition's winning proposal was covered by The Economist, and both finalists went on to obtain government grants and patents for subsequent iterations of their Breakthrough Idea proposals at the first Organ Banking Summit.
Individuals and teams may self-register, and PIs are encouraged to nominate their students and post-docs. Competition rules require PI approval for presentation of any ideas adapted from the entrants' labs.
Learn more at organpreservationalliance.org/hackathon
The Organ Preservation Alliance
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
The Center for Engineering in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
The University of North Carolina Charlotte
Funding for this conference was made possible in part by NIH grant R13TR00158-01 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
