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Get ready for STAT Madness 2018

STAT Madness is fundamentally a celebration of science. It starts Monday.

What does great biomedical science look like? Is it an advance in cancer therapy? A device that helps people recover from injury faster? Or, is it an inexpensive tool that gives developing nations a chance to fight crippling disease?

Great bioscience looks like all of this, and those examples are among the nearly 150 entries you sent us for STAT Madness, our yearly contest to find the next best innovations in health and medicine.

Starting Monday, we’ll seed a single-elimination bracket of 64 entries that will give us a crowd-voted favorite. (Click for last year’s

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