Crowd Funded Cures

28/03/2024

Just submitted Public Good Pharma’s first article to preprint server entitled “Using Interventional Pharmacoeconomic Clinical Trials and Outcomes-Based Contracts to Repurpose Generic Drugs with Cost Savings” 💊 🌎 Available at https://drugrepocentral.scienceopen.com/document/read?vid=480185af-200f-4cfa-a2ff-f57497a0985b

15/02/2023

Donate Bitcoin to nonprofits like Medical Prize Charitable Trust who accept cryptocurrency.

19/11/2022

Crowd Funded Cures are launching on Open Source Psychedelic Medicine NFT series created by https://www.michaelpierreprice.com/ using the AI tool Midjourney Official to raise money for a medical prize for clinical trials to treat depression with off-patent psychedelics (e.g. ketamine, M**A and psilocybin).

If you are interested to get on the whitelist to get access before the public sale, you can add your email here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pq2Diht1zeFcqSCX-qEPHlIf47Q0e_GueATUTAHl3mo/viewform?edit_requested=true

Some of the art attached - we really love this Salvador Dali / surrealist art style

17/11/2022

In the following Protocol Labs research seminar entitled “Impact Markets for Public Good Medicines using Pay-For-Success Contracts”, our founder discusses how to create a Medical Impact DAO protocol to fund medicines as (e.g. by incentivising the funding of clinical trials for repurposing off-patent drugs, supplements, diets, and other unmonopolisable therapies). Our CTO .money.records also provides a demo of the protocol at 24:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQZlAtUx728

17/11/2022

In this Protocol Labs research seminar, our founder discusses how to create a Medical Prize DAO protocol to fund medicines as (e.g. by incentivising the funding of clinical trials for repurposing off-patent drugs, supplements, diets, and other unmonopolisable therapies). Our CTO .money.records also provides a demo of the protocol at 24:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQZlAtUx728

https://lnkd.in/gwCzayFi

31/10/2022

will be at speaking about a business model for at microdose.buzz/wonderland/ on a panel with Graham Pechenik, Celeste Alvarez, Raad Seraj, Jeff Zuber from and moderated by Shayla Love

20% discount with code SAVVAK20

11/10/2022

Savva Kerdemelidis, founder of Crowd Funded Cures on Niklas Anzinger’s podcast about the problems with the patent system for incentivising development of new medical therapies and how pay-for-success contracts and IP-NFTs can help.

Savva is the Founder and CEO of Crowd Funded Cures, a New Zealand-based charity and Open Source Pharma De-Sci Organisation.Savva and Niklas talk about the pharmaceutical market, and how the interplay of clinical trials and the patent system disincentivize pharma companies from producing widely avail...

13/09/2022

👋 GM Frens!

Crowd Funded Cures has a couple of grant applications in the Gitcoin GR15 round and would greatly benefit from your help! Gitcoin uses a novel funding mechanism called "Quadratic Funding" whereby the projects with the highest number of donations receive the most matching funds. That means *even donations of $1 can have a tremendous impact (e.g. $30+ in quadratic matching)! Crowd Funded Cures currently has two grants receiving quadratic matching in GR15:

Our Gitcoin campaign is live for another 10 days! Here is a fun puzzle if you want to learn about crypto and want to help Crowd Funded Cures - you just need a Metamask wallet, Github account, swap ETH for DAI and then connect your wallet and donate - easy right?

*Medical Impact DAO*

Provides quadratic and retroactive funding to create an Impact Market for Open Source Medicine (e.g. impact investors funding Open Source IP-NFTs representing unmonopolisable therapies such as repurposed generic drugs, plant medicines, diets, nutraceuticals etc): https://gitcoin.co/grants/7518/medical-impact-dao-to-govern-retroactive-funding-o.

*Open Source Medical Prize Fund*

Provides a source of retroactive funding itself for Medical Prize Funds in specific disease categories: https://gitcoin.co/grants/7516/open-source-medical-prize-fund-for-retroactive-fu

Imagine if we can cure depression with an off-patent psychedelic-assisted therapy or cancer with a ketogenic diet? Crowd Funded Cures is an Open Source Medical Impact DAO partnered with VitaDAO, Molecule, PsyDAO, & LabDAO and receiving advisory support from Protocol Labs and the Health Impact Fund,....

11/06/2022

New dietary approaches for the prevention of cognitive impairment are being investigated. However, evidence from dietary interventions is mainly from food and nutrient supplement interventions, with inconsistent results and high heterogeneity between trials. We conducted a comprehensive systematic s...