Challenge Brain Health

How can every person improve their brain health and mental resilience?

Closed
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Timeline

  • Applications Open

    May 8, 2017 9:00am EDT
  • Solution Deadline

    August 1, 2017 5:00pm EDT
  • Finalists Announced

    August 16, 2017 11:59pm EDT
  • Voting Closes at 5pm U.S. Eastern Time

    September 16, 2017 11:59pm EDT
  • Solve Challenge Finals in New York City

    September 17, 2017 11:59pm EDT
  • Solvers Selected

    September 18, 2017 11:59pm EDT

Judging Criteria

  • Alignment: The solution addresses the challenge that has been set forth using technology.
  • Scalability: The solution can be grown and scaled to affect the lives of more people.
  • Potential for Impact: The solution can be grown and scaled to affect the lives of more people.
  • Novelty: This is a new technology, a new application of a technology, or a new process for solving the challenge.
  • Feasibility: It is feasible to implement the solution, and the team has a plan for the solution to sustain itself financially.

Solutions

Selected

Psychological Geographies: Mapping Minds for Social Health

By Beyond Conflict Innovation Lab
Michael Niconchuk Lee-Or Ankori-Karlinsky Tim Phillips
Selected

Tomo

By Hello Tomo Inc.
Fahad Al Saud Augustine Booth-Clibborn
Selected

Timeless

By Emma Yang
Emma Yang
Selected

StrongMinds: Treating Depression at Scale in Africa

By Sean Mayberry
Sean Mayberry
Selected

Neurolab Seed

By Tara Thiagarajan
Tara Thiagarajan
Selected

Mimerse - Self help VR therapy platform

By Mimerse
William Hamilton Niclas Wijkström
Selected

MemoryWell

By MemoryWell
Jay Newton-Small Theodore LeCompte
Selected

DCTclock

By Digital Cognition Technologies (DCT)
Randall Davis Allison Byers Nancy Briefs Antonia Holway Dana Penney
Selected

Augmented Reality Neurorehabilitation

By AUGMENTx
Albert Kwon Sergio Navarro JULIEN BOUVIER-VOLAILLE Jingru Guo Mehdi Lefouili
Selected

Autism Detection at Birth

By Harvard Medical School - Biomedical Informatics
Oren Miron Kun-Hsing Yu Li Li Danielle Rasooly
Finalist

The Difference

By Bea Arthur and JB Rubinovitz
Bea Arthur JB Rubinovitz
Finalist

Learn to Care

By Telepsychiatry Innovation Lab
TANJIR  RASHID SORON Prof. Dr. Golam  Rabbani
Finalist

YouthCare

By Nihal Satyadev
Nihal Satyadev
Finalist

Coding Autism

By Coding Autism: Navigating Adults with ASD to Tech Employment
Oliver Thornton Austen Weinhart Beth Brennan, Ph.D. Mike Panesis Greg Monterrosa Andrea Vu Chasko William Faidi Edlyn Peña Alon Goren Ward MacDonald
Finalist

JOOL

By Vic Strecher
Vic Strecher

Arts & Culture Mentorship Prize Judges

Laura Callanan

Laura Callanan

Founding Partner, Upstart Co-Lab
Paul  Sznewajs

Paul Sznewajs

Executive Director, Ingenuity
Leila W. Kinney

Leila W. Kinney

Executive Director of Arts Initiatives and of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)
​Rachel Goslins

​Rachel Goslins

Director, Arts & Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution
Scot Osterweil

Scot Osterweil

Creative Director, Education Arcade; Research Director, MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program

Leadership

Corinna Lathan

Corinna Lathan

AnthroTronix, Inc., CEO, Co-Founder, and Board Chair
Noubar Afeyan

Noubar Afeyan

Moderna, Co-Founder and Chairman
Olivier Oullier

Olivier Oullier

Aix-Marseille University, Professor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Rebecca Brachman

Rebecca Brachman

Cornell Tech, Cornell University, Runway Fellow
Robert  Desimone

Robert Desimone

McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Director
Alvaro Fernandez

Alvaro Fernandez

SharpBrains, CEO & Editor-in-Chief
Thomas Insel

Thomas Insel

Mindstrong Health, President and Co-Founder
Tan Le

Tan Le

EMOTIV Inc., Founder & CEO
Khaliya

Khaliya

Falkora, Co-Founder
Ruben Kalra

Ruben Kalra

CEO, WellBrain | Recused from Judging
Joseph Coughlin

Joseph Coughlin

MIT Age Lab, Founder and Director
Sarah Lenz Lock

Sarah Lenz Lock

AARP, Senior Vice President for Policy, AARP; Executive Director, Global Council on Brain Health
Phillip T. (Terry) Ragon

Phillip T. (Terry) Ragon

InterSystems Corporation, CEO, Founder, and Owner
Robert Urban

Robert Urban

Johnson & Johnson, Global Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Arshya Vahabzadeh

Arshya Vahabzadeh

Chief Medical Officer, Brain Power; Innovation Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy
Eddie Martucci

Eddie Martucci

Akili Interactive Labs, Co-founder and CEO
Kenneth Kaplan

Kenneth Kaplan

MIT Sloan School of Management, Senior Advisor, Initiative for Health Systems Innovation