by ginger | Oct 31, 2018 | crowdsourcing, mark2cure, Webinar
If you love science and enjoy learning, you’re in for a treat! Andrew (the brains behind Mark2Cure) will be holding a webinar using two case studies (the Gene Wiki Project and Mark2Cure) to illustrate the use of crowdsourcing as it applies to knowledge...
by ginger | May 11, 2018 | Cochrane Crowd, mark2cure, publications
Mark2Cure’s 3rd anniversary is coming up, and we are extremely grateful for the opportunity to have interacted and learned from you over the last few years! You make this project interesting. You make this project interesting and exciting. You make this project...
by ginger | Mar 9, 2018 | CitSciMedBlitz, Cochrane Crowd, EyesOnAlz, mark2cure
Hopefully, you’ll all forgive us for the delay in announcing the results of #CitSciMedBlitz. Our partners at EyesOnAlz, Cochrane crowd, and ourselves were a little tired after the blitz and we gave ourselves a short break. Since the blitz, the EyesOnAlz team has...
by ginger | Mar 2, 2018 | CitSciMedBlitz, mark2cure
The results for Mark2Cure’s arm of the CitSciBlitz are now available! Kien Pong Yap took the top spot in this challenge (see ranking at bottom of post). What’s exciting is that several of these names were also in the top 10 for the StallCatchers challenge...
by ginger | Feb 26, 2018 | citizen science, Cochrane Crowd, events, EyesOnAlz, mark2cure, Rare Disease Day
It’s on! The CitSciMedblitz week of challenges have started! If you missed the webinar detailing the three biomedical/health citizen science research projects, it is available for viewing on youtube. You are welcome to participate in as many or as few of the...
by ginger | Feb 2, 2018 | citizen science, Cochrane Crowd, events, EyesOnAlz, mark2cure, Rare diseaes
It’s finally February which means it’s time to prepare for Rare Disease Day 2018 and CitSciMedBlitz! This year’s theme for Rare Disease Day continues off of last year’s theme–research. According to RareDiseaseDay.org, patients are not...