Researchers have it clear, unfortunately, cancer has not stopped with COVID-19. A good way to help with cancer research is for you and your family to decide to financially support, and with dissemination, some cancer research project that you find on different crowdfunding platforms. Some of them are specialized in scientific subjects.
La cancer research is not going through the best of times. On the one hand, the confinement measures that were taken during the state of alarm, and on the other hand, that the funding that was being dedicated has passed to other projects make today, Cancer Research Day, more important than ever our help.
What is crowdfunding? Advantages of practicing it as a family
A way to transmit in your family the values of solidarity is through crowdfunding or crowdfunding. This is that a project, scientific, cultural, business, or of any other nature is presented on an online platform, and through a network of collective financing it is possible to finance. The reward obtained by the people who contribute financially changes depending on the project, and the amount, you can see your name in the credits of a movie or have a t-shirt come to your house.
In the case of scientific crowdfunding dedicated to research, the reward is double, because you and your family will be part of the solution. In addition to being part of the advancements of science, which in turn will help others. The reward that is usually given in these cases is visit the lab or have your name appear on the web or in the acknowledgments of the publications.
Scientific crowdfunding has the ability, rather than supporting large projects, of disclose what is being done and involve the population and families in them. It is an effective way to bring science and laboratories home.
Scientific crowdfundig
There are different platforms of crowdfunding in Spain and abroad, especially in the US, but we want to look at the ones here. In all of them you will find research against cancer, which is ongoing and needs your help. For example:
- Precipitates is a crowdfunding web platform created and managed by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) that includes both research projects and dissemination projects.
- F4R (Funds For Research), created to seek funding for research and science projects. It emerged by publishing its first project I Lowe you, a project to deepen the study of Lowe's Syndrome, a very rare pathology on a congenital error of the metabolism that causes physical and mental alterations of different degrees.
- iLoveScience: Originally from Albacete, it is a crowdfunding platform focused on science and promoted by several scientists who offer scientific advice service to
- Salvemoslainvestizaje.org, it has served to support the staff of a small research center.
Cancer-related projects that you can support with crowdfunding
Looking for projects that are currently seeking financial support and that are related to Cancer, we found a project aimed at identifying genes for resilience against cancer. brain cancer in children.
You can find it in Precipita. It is directed by Isabel Adrados, a doctor in Molecular Biology and an expert in genetics and pharmacogenomics from the Institute of Neurosciences of Alicante. So far the project cancer-free de Adrados has raised more than 10.000 euros, but needs to raise 25.000 to finance a year of research.
Dr. Raquel Bermudo (Biobank, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona) and Dr. Pedro Fernández (Service of Pathological Anatomy, H. Clínic) request 16.000 euros to predict the aggressiveness of breast cancer with a blood test. They have been in this research for over a year and a half now, but now they need funding to move on to the demonstration. You can find this project at IloveScience.