Sunday, April 5, 2009

Radio silence explained

You may have noticed sparse posting on this blog after announcing our newest Board of Directors additions in March.

Yet we've been keeping busy behind the scenes, as we've sharpened our focus on grant-writing and securing stable financing for our project. Here's a recap of some of our achievements last week:
  • We submitted our first grant application to Changemakers.net (an initiative of Ashokha Foundation) and have several more applications in process. In the spirit of full transparency, you can read our grant application in its entirety here.
  • We welcomed Umer Raffat, M.P.H., to Clinical Trials Wiki as our new V.P. of Finance/Strategy.
  • We are beginning an architectural overhaul of the site, expanding our database of publicly accessible clinical trials, and centering our content display and discussion forums around scientific publications from the clinical trial literature.
As you know, we're continuing work on this site alongside our day-to-day lives. Last week I started a rotation at the Brigham's Levine Cardiac Unit, which will keep me busy through the end of April, and am spending my weekends hunting for apartments in Murray Hill. While still mysteriously finding time to write and edit our grants, Brice is traveling France on what promises to be a life-changing trip. And, inspiring the envy of overachieving multi-taskers everywhere, Gaurav is working behind the curtain on technical development after his day job at a venture capital firm.

Please continue to send us your questions or feedback about our ongoing work on the site.

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