The Synaptic Leap | Open Source Biomedical Research

The Synaptic Leap | Open Source Biomedical Research:

Open Source Biomedical Research for the 21st Century
Biomedical science is indivisible. The physical and psychological barriers that divide scientific communities are ultimately artificial and counterproductive. We see online collaboration as a natural way to bridge these gaps and pool information that is currently too fragmented for anyone to use. An open, collaborative research community will find new ways to do science, answering questions that current institutions find difficult or impossible. The Synaptic Leap’s mission is to empower scientists to make the dream a reality.

Roadmap
We are beginning our journey focused on the two tropical diseases malaria and schistosomiasis. Diseases found exclusively in tropical regions predominantly afflict poor people in developing countries. The typical profit-driven pharmaceutical economic model fails with these diseases because there is simply no money to be made. However, the very fact that there's no profit incentive to research these diseases makes them perfect candidates for open source style research; there's no profit incentive to keep secrets either.

By Ginger Taylor (TSL Founder)

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