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(Months)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Project Overview:\nThe field of longevity research is rapidly advancing, with numerous potential interventions being proposed to extend healthspan and lifespan. However, evaluating the effectiveness of these interventions remains a time-consuming and resource-intensive process. In addition, the traditional model of scientific research often lacks collaboration and accessibility for a wider audience, limiting the potential for collective wisdom to drive breakthroughs in this field.\n\nProblem Statement:\nThe primary challenge is to accelerate the evaluation of novel aging interventions and foster collaboration among researchers, data scientists, and enthusiasts. This would enable the scientific community to prioritize research efforts, allocate resources efficiently, and harness diverse perspectives to advance our understanding of aging-related processes.\n\nSolution:\nOur project, LabPredict, is a prediction market platform designed to make longevity research engaging, accessible, and collaborative. By focusing on surrogate model organisms with relatively short lifespans, LabPredict enables participants to make predictions on aging research experiments based on published scientific findings, evaluate studies, and place predictions on third-party validated experiments. Accurate predictions are rewarded, promoting active participation and knowledge contribution.\n\nRoadmap:\n1. Development Phase (2 months): Design and build the LabPredict platform, incorporating a user-friendly interface, dynamic market structure, and blockchain technology for transparency and security.\n2. Beta Testing Phase (1 months): Invite a select group of users to test the platform, provide feedback, and refine the user experience based on their input.\n3. Launch Phase (1 month): Officially launch LabPredict, inviting researchers, data scientists, and aging enthusiasts to participate in the prediction market.\n4. Expansion Phase (2 months): Continuously improve the platform and increase user engagement through marketing efforts, collaborations with research institutions, and integration of new features based on user feedback.", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "LabPredict aligns with DeSci's mission and goals in several ways:\n1. Open Collaboration: By creating a prediction market platform, LabPredict fosters an environment where researchers, data scientists, and aging enthusiasts can exchange ideas, insights, and expertise. This community-driven approach can lead to innovative hypotheses and experimental designs that might not emerge from individual efforts, ultimately contributing to the advancement of aging research.\n2. Transparency: LabPredict encourages reproducible research by incentivizing users to share detailed methodologies and data. This facilitates transparency and allows others to verify the findings independently. Furthermore, leveraging blockchain technology ensures trustless and tamper-proof trading of contracts, maintaining the integrity and security of the platform.\n3. Accessibility: Our platform makes longevity research more engaging and accessible to a diverse audience, breaking down the barriers of traditional \"ivory tower\" science. By enabling participants to make predictions on aging research experiments and contribute their knowledge, LabPredict democratizes scientific inquiry and inspires more people to contribute their unique perspectives and expertise.\n4. Accelerated Innovation: LabPredict accelerates the evaluation of novel aging interventions by harnessing the collective wisdom of the community. This rapid assessment helps prioritize research efforts and allocate resources more efficiently, supporting DeSci's goal of driving scientific progress.\n5. Decentralization: By integrating blockchain technology, LabPredict ensures a decentralized prediction market that promotes trustless transactions and data security. This aligns with DeSci's mission of decentralizing scientific research and eliminating single points of failure or control.\nIn summary, LabPredict supports DeSci's mission and goals by fostering open collaboration, transparency, accessibility, and accelerated innovation in the field of longevity research. By leveraging decentralized technologies and cultivating a diverse community of participants, our project aims to transform the way scientific research is conducted and shared, ultimately driving progress and breakthroughs in aging research.", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The funds received from the grants program will be utilized to support various aspects of our LabPredict project, ensuring successful implementation and long-term sustainability:\n\n1. Platform Development: Funding will be used to build the user-friendly prediction market platform, integrating blockchain technology for transparency and security.\n\n2. Beta Testing and Refinement: Funds will support a beta testing phase to refine the user experience and address potential issues before the official launch.\n\n3. Third-Party CRO Contracting: The grants will cover the costs of contracting with a third-party Contract Research Organization (CRO) to validate the initial set of experiments.\n\n4. Marketing and Community Building: A portion of the funds will be allocated to marketing efforts and community building initiatives, fostering a strong network of researchers, data scientists, and aging enthusiasts.\n\n5. Operational Expenses: Funding will cover legal consultations, compliance, and ongoing maintenance costs, ensuring smooth and secure platform operations.\n\n6. Expansion and Future Development: Funds will be allocated for improving existing functionalities, integrating new features, and exploring potential collaborations in the longevity research space.\n\nThese allocations will help us develop, launch, and grow a successful platform that fosters collaboration, accelerates aging intervention evaluations, and promotes transparency and accessibility in longevity research.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "0R1nWwdRXHUTWJSFoxZyAk7s03k39uTKGU8cBEQfYis=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "6655b806451e841163dbdf5f9db12ff6840314c828a33a7731d3dcb49e3acfe71241c8b0f9edc12fc6d65fbf4e134e0767c34d4fa83ea5ceff01fced4ffd3a10342c87eea9a35041f030bc1fd4611724580b2d173c674bbb5338d5949321b1837bfc505f7e02411d17c80cd1558a86aae4c36fcf10b59df7f4bd722e1f8398690000000000000020a82b718cfae68568097222da255beebbc327af953f551565f6de1a8667c6302c31caa6eadc0e5a0f8bea65c817833685"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "N/A", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Dr. Michael Fischer\n======\nStanford Undergrad in Computer Science\nStanford PhD in Computer Science\nFounder of DBDAO.xyz and DeSci.nyc ", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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Our primary goal is to foster engagement and harness the collective wisdom of researchers, data scientists, and enthusiasts to predict the outcomes of aging research experiments. By bringing together a community passionate about scientific discovery, LabPredict aims to accelerate the identification of effective interventions that can promote an extended lifespan.\nThe platform will focus on surrogate model organisms, such as yeast, nematodes, and fruit flies, which have relatively short lifespans and provide quicker results. This approach will enable participants to engage with the platform more frequently and contribute to the scientific understanding of aging-related processes.\n\n# Example\nDr. Smith, a researcher at a leading university, has published a paper about a novel drug that targets a specific cellular pathway associated with aging. Dr. Smith believes that the drug has the potential to extend the healthspan of fruit flies. An enthusiastic member of the LabPredict community discovers Dr. Smith's paper and sets up a prediction market with the following question:\n\"Will the novel drug X extend the healthspan of fruit flies by at least 20% when compared to the control group in a third-party CRO validated experiment?\"\nLabPredict users, including researchers, data scientists, and aging enthusiasts, start evaluating the information provided by the paper. Based on their analysis, they make predictions on the outcome of a third-party CRO (Contract Research Organization) validated experiment involving Dr. Smith's drug.\nOnce the CRO conducts the experiment, the outcomes are shared with the LabPredict community. The platform then evaluates the predictions made by the users and rewards those who accurately predicted the outcome. The type of reward is still to be determined.  This process not only incentivizes users to participate and contribute their knowledge but also helps identify the most knowledgeable and skilled predictors in the community.\nBy using LabPredict, the community has collaboratively assessed the potential of the novel drug in a transparent, data-driven manner. This process accelerates the evaluation of new interventions, fosters scientific collaboration, and contributes to the broader understanding of aging and healthspan.\n\n# Key Features\n1. Dynamic Market Structure: LabPredict will feature a well-organized, user-friendly market structure focused on specific questions related to longevity research, enabling users to easily navigate through various propositions, filter them by organism type or research area, and track the performance of their predictions over time.\n\n2. Information Aggregation and Incentives: LabPredict will facilitate the aggregation of diverse information and opinions, including scientific research, technological advancements, and potential breakthroughs in aging and lifespan extension. By offering financial incentives for accurate predictions, the platform will encourage participants to research and analyze relevant data, contributing to an improved understanding of factors affecting model organism longevity.\n\n3. Blockchain Integration and Market Data: Leveraging blockchain technology, LabPredict will ensure transparency, security, and decentralization of the prediction market, enabling trustless and tamper-proof trading of contracts. Contract prices and trading volumes will provide valuable insights into the consensus views on the future of model organism longevity, informing decision-making by researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders.\n\n# Benefits\n1. Accelerated Evaluation of Interventions: By leveraging the collective wisdom of the LabPredict community, the platform enables a more rapid assessment of the potential effects of novel aging interventions. This accelerated evaluation can help prioritize research efforts and allocate resources more efficiently.\n\n2. Falsifiable and Clear Research Claims: LabPredict encourages researchers to formulate precise and testable hypotheses that can be validated through experiments. This approach promotes clear and falsifiable claims, which are essential for scientific progress and reduce the likelihood of ambiguous or misleading results.\n\n3. Incentivizing Reproducible Research: As LabPredict rewards accurate predictions and contributions, the platform inherently incentivizes reproducible research. Users are encouraged to share detailed methodologies and data, which facilitates transparency and allows others to verify the findings independently.\n\n4. Community-Driven Innovation: LabPredict fosters a collaborative environment where researchers, data scientists, and enthusiasts can exchange ideas, insights, and expertise. This community-driven approach can lead to innovative hypotheses and experimental designs that might not emerge from individual efforts, ultimately contributing to the advancement of aging research.\n\n# Considerations\n1. Compliance: The platform will operate within the bounds of applicable laws and regulations. We are consulting with legal experts to navigate potential concerns related to prediction markets, incentives (if any), and jurisdictions.\n\n2. Ethics: There are ethical concerns arising from the trading of contracts based on the lifespan of living organisms. We will address these concerns by forming an institutional review board, promoting responsible research, and adhering to high animal welfare standards.\n\n# Funding Request\nWe are seeking funding through the Gitcoin round to support the development and launch of LabPredict. The funds will be allocated as follows:\n\n1. Development: Building the prediction market platform, integrating blockchain-based infrastructure, and creating user-friendly interface.  \n\n2. Initial CRO Contracting: Covering the costs of contracting with a third-party Contract Research Organization (CRO) to validate the initial set of experiments. As LabPredict becomes self-sustaining, the platform will generate revenue through trading fees to cover future CRO contracts and ongoing operational costs.\n\n# Conclusion\nLabPredict has the potential to change the way the public interacts with aging research and make science more engaging and collaborative. The main goal is not only to accelerate scientific discovery but also to ignite excitement and enthusiasm for science among a wider audience. By breaking down the barriers of the traditional \"ivory tower\" and encouraging collaboration and openness, LabPredict aims to democratize scientific inquiry and inspire more people to contribute their unique perspectives and expertise. With your support, we can build a platform that celebrates scientific engagement, promotes transparency, and drives community-driven innovation in the field of aging research.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "LabPredict_"}, "recipient": "0x1d1Caa3A187AfBdF298a32a79DfC34F3BB22952F"}}