Longitude Prize
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The Longitude Prize is an inducement prize contest offered by Challenge Works, a social enterprise which was historically part of Nesta, a British lottery funded charity, in the spirit of the 18th-century Longitude rewards.[1] It runs a £10 million prize fund, offering an £8 million payout to the team of researchers that develops an affordable, accurate, and fast point of care test for bacterial infection that is easy to use anywhere in the world. Such a test will allow the conservation of antibiotics for future generations and help solve the global problem of antimicrobial resistance.[2][3]
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Longitude Prize | |
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Reward(s) | £10 million |
Website | www |
The prize was announced by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron in 2013,[4] and a shortlist of six challenges to be put to a public vote was announced at the BBC's Broadcasting House in May 2014.[5][6]