When Giovanna Prout, president and CEO of Scale Bio, thinks about single cell technology, she thinks big. (Meaning, a lot of cells.) And she wants researchers to think big with her. To that end, a few months ago, she developed a plan that would inspire researchers to submit proposals for experiments that they have always wanted to do, but couldn’t because of cost or logistics. Not only that, but she created a way to support those proposals, as well.
Together with her team at Scale Bio, she established the 100 Million Cell Challenge. But Scale Bio couldn’t do it alone; they needed collaborators. Soon after the idea was born, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI; funding), Ultima Genomics (sequencing), NVIDIA (compute power), and Bioturing (access to their advanced analysis platform, BBrowserX) joined the initiative to collaborate and subsidize costs of the projects.
They solicited proposals and, recently, at the ASHG meeting…
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