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July 5, 2013 11:44 pm GMT
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Meet Consano, The Crowdfunding Platform That Wants To Help Cure Cancer [TCTV]
Crowdfunding has been a godsend for getting lots of projects off the ground that otherwise may not have attracted dollars from traditional powers-that-be in retail manufacturing, music, movies, and the like. So at a time when the federal dollars that typically fund medical research are under more constraint than ever, doesn't it make sense to bring that same model that has worked so well for wristwatches and rock albums to work for curing breast cancer and new methods for lung transplants?That's what Molly Lindquist believes, so she founded a non-profit organization called Consano for allowing people to browse through vetted medical research projects at select universities and research institutions, and then contribute funding directly to the ones they find compelling.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/wIZcvy0ZJFI/
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