Thursday, July 24, 2008

Feel Better. Help Find a Cure. 

CureTogether is a place where patients and researchers work together, doing open source research to find cures. Patients can start feeling better today by connecting, sharing resources, and tracking their health. It's as private as you want it to be, it's free, and the anonymous, aggregate data is open so researchers around the world can collaborate on it. Together we can make discoveries and work toward ending suffering for millions of people living with chronic conditions.

We started CureTogether because we have loved ones who live with pain, every day. Research just isn’t going fast enough for them, so we want to help it go faster. We started with three conditions that are closest to our heart and that are also chronically underfunded: vulvodynia, endometriosis, and migraine.

Doing disease research in molecular biology labs many moons ago, we felt like the research we were doing was so far removed from the actual patient experience, and we wanted to do more to help real people in pain. Today, with so much data being generated and technology costs dropping, science is becoming increasingly information-based instead of test-tube-based. This opens research up to crowdsourcing, where millions of brains analyzing the same data can come up with solutions to problems that no one has yet been able to crack.

CureTogether brings patients and researchers together in a massive worldwide collaboration to find cures for some of the most painful, prevalent, chronic conditions affecting millions of people every day. By opening up scientific research to brilliant minds around the world, we can work together to give people a chance at a pain-free life.

Please join us today.

- Alexandra Carmichael and Daniel Reda

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Labels: Alexandra Carmichael, Clarence Chandran, CureTogether, Daniel Reda, endometriosis, migraine, Ursula Wesselmann, vulvodynia

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