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New Organ Prize Aims to Put an End to Organ Shortages
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2012-08-08 21:46:01, 조회 : 1,711 |
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New Organ Prize Aims to Put an End to Organ Shortages
As supplies of donor organs continue to trail the numbers of patients who need them, the Methuselah Foundation is pursuing the prospect of building new organs right in the lab. This nonprofit organization, which sponsors and advocates for research into arresting and reversing the human body’s aging processes, recently announced that it will dispense a New Organ Prize to go to any researcher who successfully constructs an entire new organ from a patient’s own cells. The competition specifies a few required benchmarks. For example, the organ must have maintained viability in its lab for two years or more.
\"Our New Organ Prize is designed to connect the vast community of those needing replacement organs with those who can do something about it in an accelerating time frame that prizes have proven to produce,\" says David Gobel, CEO of the Methuselah Foundation.
A prize could be just the catalyst that organ generation may need, as past prizes have brought about solutions to other global problems, Gobel adds. For instance, a Food Preservation Prize in the early nineteenth century spurred the development of refrigeration, which effectively ended famine in the developed world.
\"It took a prize to get someone to fix it—and fix it they did,\" he says.
The Methuselah Foundation is counting on donors to provide the funding for the prize, whose exact dollar amount will be greater or smaller depending on contributions. Donors can deposit funds directly via the Web site.
Sources: The Methuselah Foundation, NewOrgan.org
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