[open-science] Please consider voting for our project in the Australian Innovation Challenge

Mon Dec 5 11:53:26 UTC 2011

Hi Mat

Thanks for letting us know about the entry - I just voted :)
I'd say it is certainly relevant to interests on the list and a great
discussion to be having! Will you be continuing forward with the team even
if you don't get the funding?

Also, would you be willing to write a blog post for science.okfn.org on
what you're planning? No rush, but if you do get an opportunity we'd love
to advertise the initiative.

Jenny

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Matthew Todd <matthew.todd at sydney.edu.au>wrote:

> All,
>
> I really don't want to spam this list, but I wonder if I could ask people
> to consider voting for a team I'm leading in the Australian Innovation
> Challenge. I've collected a really wonderful group of about 15 people
> together from across science and beyond, based in Sydney but including
> others, who are interested in whether we can apply lessons recently learned
> in open science to open source drug discovery in traditionally
> profit-making areas such as diabetes, obesity and cancer. If we won the
> prize (of a few thousand dollars) we'd convene a meeting early next year,
> which would be broadcast on the web, to discuss the feasibility of such
> projects, and the identities of the molecules that would be the early focus
> - most likely ex-pharma compounds which have been abandoned through side
> effects.
>
> Happy to discuss the idea more, of course. It's a step beyond the open
> source drug discovery for malaria project we're currently doing, and allows
> us to address head-on whether and how pharma can be involved with open
> projects. We'd start small and try to build something from the ground up.
>
> In the meantime, if you wish, you can vote for us in the Health category
> here:
>
> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/innovationchallenge
>
> The voting closes in the next *48 hours*, though...
>
> (you may be asked for an Aussie postcode, for some reason. Sydney Uni, for
> example, is 2006)
>
> Some back story is here, FYI:
>
>
> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/innovationchallenge/matthew-todd-drug-discovery/story-fn9dkrp5-1226212483929
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mat
>
>
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