A new contest from Mayo Clinic Innovation & Mayo Clinic Ventures with healthcare just came out. Categories involve wellness, smoking/alcohol cessation, and behavior modification Apply here at http://thinkbig2015.istart.org . Deadline is Aug 15, 2015.  h/t Arshya Vahabzadeh.

Got a great idea to improve health or health care? Help make your dream a reality with the Mayo Clinic THINK BIG Challenge, sponsored by Mayo Clinic Center for InnovationMayo Clinic Ventures and AVIA. Entrepreneurs will compete for a total of $100,000 in awards. In addition, Mayo Clinic experts will guide winners for a year as they develop their concepts for market.

 

This year’s Mayo Clinic THINK BIG Challenge themes are:

• Got Health?  This challenge will focus on healthy people staying healthy and will explore areas such as eating healthy, monitoring risk factors and daily exercise.

• I am NOT my Disease. This challenge will tackle the presumption that people are defined by their disease and will explore areas such as access to health data, health literacy and behavior modification

 

 

Application deadline for the Mayo Clinic THINK BIG Challenge is August 15, 2015.