STAT Madness is an annual competition that brings together the biggest and best science ideas of the year. The contest is a bracket style, head-to-head match-up and votes determine the winner. It's similar to basketball's March Madness, but for science.
Two of our UCI School of Medicine researchers were among the 64 finalists.
Robert Hunt with his work titled, Cell Therapy for Brain Injury, made it through the second round of voting.
Rongsheng Jin with his work titled, Attacking C-Diff Toxins, made it to the fourth round, otherwise known as #innov8. That round saw all the teams facing off on Twitter. The war of words between competitors was inspiring and fun. Take a look here.
To watch a video about Dr. Robert Hunt's work:
To watch a video about Dr. Jin's work: