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Yea - I had the same thoughts. Do you know if there are Kickstarter like nonprofits dedicated to raising money this way for rare diseases?

• caycep 13y ago
  I think there is a scientific "kickstarter"-like startup that made the rounds here on HN a while back, though - maybe that could fit the bill? the name escapes me at the moment though.
  • jtheory 13y ago
    Probably Microryza: http://microryza.com http://microryza.com
    • caycep 13y ago
      yeah, that's it, thanks.
    • dangoldin 13y ago
      Thanks for sharing. I know YC invested in Watsi (https://watsi.org/ https://watsi.org/) but this is more of what I was looking for.
• caycep 13y ago
  AT the moment, not really, but the communities of rare diseases often have put together a nonprofit foundation for fundraising, etc. The grants are really not big and don't really fund serious research in that they are a fraction of a typical NIH R01, R23 or K grant, and typically do not cover indirect funding (i.e. the slice of the pie the university or hospital takes for "overhead").