Life Grand Challenges
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"to accelerate innovative solutions to technical life science challenges"[edit ]
Last modified: December 28, 2010, 10:31PM
Award: $1000000[edit Award]
Description[edit]
Welcome to the Life Grand Challenges from Life Technologies. Life Grand Challenges is a first-of-its-kind crowdsourcing initiative in the life sciences tools and technology industry. The goal of the $7 million competition is to accelerate innovative solutions to technical life science challenges.
There will be seven individual challenges, each with a $1 million prize. The first three challenges are focused on Ion semiconductor sequencing. They are to 1) produce twice as much sequence data, 2) to do it twice as fast, and 3) with twice the accuracy. The threshold for winning is to produce results 2x better than the best internal Ion Torrent record at the time of submission.
The judges for the first three Grand Challenges include Dr. Rothberg, Dr. Sidney Altman, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Professor Sir Aaron Klug, who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Additional information about the first three Grand Challenges will be released early in the year and information on the remaining four challenges related to Life Technologies products will be announced later in 2011.