HORAO – The It Doesn’t Take a Brain Surgeon Challenge

Deadline: 2018-09-28
Award: $38,000
Open to: Adults*

Brain tumor surgery is pretty advanced and fancy these days. There are many technologies that help the neurosurgeon operate accurately without harming normal brain tissue. Such technologies include microscopy, neuro-navigation, intraoperative contrast enhancement, intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), neurophysiological monitoring, intraoperative ultrasound, awake surgery and many others.

The HORAO Challenge aims to improve brain surgery with the help of a technology that visualizes brain fibers. The Challenge seeks an idea. We welcome entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists, engineers, students, and anyone eager to contribute, to search for a solution. We believe that the solution is already out there and just needs to be found and implemented. If this project succeeds it will have the power to improve brain tumor survival in a population of millions of young patients with a devastating disease.