The National Institutes of Health has announced the winners of a crowdsourcing competition for innovative ideas on New Approach Methodologies, or NAMs. The Complement Animal Research In Experimentation (Complement-ARIE) Challenge prize competition offered $1,000,000 in total prize money to diverse teams with ideas for new ways of using NAMs to conduct basic research, uncover disease mechanisms, and translate knowledge into products and practice.
The NIH Common Fund Complement-ARIE program hosted this challenge as part of the strategic planning process to refine the program concept. This program will develop, standardize, and validate the use of new approaches that will more accurately model human biology and complement, or in some cases, replace traditional research models. This challenge provided NIH with information about where innovation can be incorporated into NAMs and what types of new NAMs may benefit from further investment. Concepts from the winning entries of the Complement-ARIE Challenge Prize will be incorporated into the ongoing planning process for the Complement-ARIE program.
Twenty Complement-ARIE Challenge prize winners will share a total prize purse of $1,000,000, with each winning team to receive $50,000 for their innovative solutions. The winning solutions were selected according to the official judging criteria and demonstrated out-of-the box solutions across the competition areas of in silico, in vitro, in chemico, and combinatorial methods.
View the winning solutions on the Complement-ARIE website.
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