Calling all Citizen Scientists! Join the CitSciMed Blitz!

Got a burning passion for health? Ready to make a difference? We ’ve got you covered.JoinCochrane Crowd, our partner platformsMark2Cure andStall Catchers and our collective global volunteer network for the CitSciMed Blitz. Together we can speed up medical research and make a difference.Cochrane Crowd is Cochrane ’s new citizen science platform. Our main focus is identifying studies that provide the best possible evidence of the effectiveness of a health treatment. Once identified by the Crowd the studies go into a central register where health researchers and practitioners can access them. The more studie s identified by the Crowd, the more high-quality evidence is available to help health practitioners treat their clients. Watchthis 2-minute video to learn more, and sign up to get started!Mark2Cure is a citizen science platform that enables volunteers to help in the process of biomedical discovery. Volunteers extract information from biomedical abstracts in order to help researchers find clues on a rare disease known as NGLY1-deficiency. Take a look at the platform and sign uphere.Stall Catchers is a citizen science game speeding up Alzheimer ’s research. In the game, you’re analyzing movies from a live mouse brain, and looking for signs of stalls - clogged blood vessels. By putting many eyes on the task, we can hope to find promising Alzheimer’s treatment targets in just a couple of years, instead of decades. Take a look at the pl atform and sign uphere.Importantl...
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