$100,000 prize for solving a real patient’s medical mystery

$100,000 prize for solving a real patient’s medical mystery

$100,000 prize for solving a real patient’s medical mystery

Turn your insights into cash prizes
Turn your insights into cash prizes
Turn your insights into cash prizes
Submit Your Answer
Submit Your Answer
Submit Your Answer
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About Us

The Medical Mystery Prize is a patient-funded initiative created to find answers for a young man facing a debilitating medical condition.

After years of seeing doctors and undergoing extensive testing, he continues to suffer.

This challenge invites clinicians, researchers, and problem-solvers of all kinds
to review his de-identified case and propose solutions.

Valuable ideas will be rewarded with substantial cash prizes - including a $100,000 grand prize -
while also offering the chance to make a real difference in someone’s life.

Details

All records have been fully anonymized in accordance with HIPAA. Submissions are securely routed through the patient’s licensed healthcare provider before being shared with him. This structure ensures the process is safe, legal, and compliant with both HIPAA and licensing requirements.


Prize details

$100,000
Grand Prize

For a breakthrough solution that delivers a durable diagnosis or treatment path

For a breakthrough solution that delivers a durable diagnosis or treatment path

$15,000 Major Contribution Prizes (2 available)

For substantial partial solutions that significantly advance understanding or treatment

For substantial partial solutions that significantly advance understanding or treatment

$2,000 Insight Prizes
(5 available)

For smaller but valuable contributions such as novel hypotheses or overlooked connections

For smaller but valuable contributions such as novel hypotheses or overlooked connections

Prize details

$100,000
Grand Prize

For a breakthrough solution that delivers a durable diagnosis or treatment path

$15,000 Major Contribution Prizes (2 available)

For substantial partial solutions that significantly advance understanding or treatment

$2,000 Insight Prizes
(5 available)

For smaller but valuable contributions such as novel hypotheses or overlooked connections

Submission Form

This is your chance to contribute an idea that could make a real difference.
Share any tests, hypotheses, diagnoses, or treatment approaches you think might help. Please include a brief rationale or reference, but don’t worry about being perfect - even small insights can be valuable. Submissions can be entered here, or emailed directly to themedicalmysteryprize@gmail.com.