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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'">Traci Anderson &lt;<a href="mailto:tanderso@mit.edu">tanderso@mit.edu</a>&gt;<br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><b>IDEA2 Global: Call for Projects. Extended Deadline (6/15/2016)</b><br>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word"><b class="" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT; widows:1">EXTENDED DEADLINE</b><span class="" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT; widows:1">:&nbsp;</span><b class="" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT; widows:1"><font color="#ff2600" class="">JUNE
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<div class="" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT; widows:1"><i class=""><font size="4" class="">Please forward as appropriate to your student, postdoc and other researcher lists.&nbsp;</font></i><i class=""><font size="4" class="">Any individual or team with a
 biomedical research idea is eligible to apply.</font></i></div>
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<div class="" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT; widows:1"><span class="" style="widows:auto; color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font face="Georgia" size="4" class=""><b class=""><span class="">IDEA�</span>&nbsp;Global: Call for Projects</b></font></span></div>
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IDEA� Global provides mentoring and connections&nbsp;to biomedical innovators around the world to develop their project ideas and to provide the expertise to realize them. &nbsp;It is especially valuable for trainees, &nbsp;early-stage professionals and those who have few
 opportunities in their normal work to participate in innovation projects.</p>
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Each 6-month edition of IDEA� recruits new project teams of one or more individuals, and provides innovation training, presentation skill building, and team-specific mentorship and guidance by internationally-recognized experts.</p>
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Teams who complete IDEA� have projects more clearly focused on a driving&nbsp;medical need, a broader network of connections, and improved ability to compete for collaborators and funding.</p>
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IDEA� Global is based on two prior programs, IDEA� at Harvard-MIT HST, and IDEA� Madrid, a program of the Madrid�MIT M&#43;Visi�n Consortium.</p>
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<li class=""><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif" size="3" class="">Any individual or groups who have an idea for a biomedical research project or business concept.</font></li><li class=""><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif" size="3" class="">Individuals or at least 1 member of a team must be available for the Final Presentation in Boston on November 16-17, 2016.</font></li></ul>
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For more information and to apply, see call for projects attached and at:&nbsp;<a href="http://idea2.mit.edu/call-for-proposals/" class="">http://idea2.mit.edu/call-for-proposals/</a></font></p>
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<div class="" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"><span class="" style="color:rgb(26,26,26); font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif; font-size:16px">Martha L. Gray, PhD.&nbsp;</span><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif" size="3" class="">J.W.
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<div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="3" class=""><span class="" style="color:rgb(26,26,26)">Mehmet Toner, PhD.&nbsp;</span><font color="#1a1a1a" class="">Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery, MGH, HMS</font></font></div>
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<div class=""><font color="#1a1a1a" class="" face="Georgia" size="3">Mercedes Balcells, PhD.&nbsp;Principal Research Scientist, IMES, MIT</font></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font face="Georgia" size="3" class="">Sandra Widland, MPH. Special Projects Manager, MIT</font></span></div>
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