Renegade CrowdQuest is being run by Renegade Research, in collaboration with patients at Open Medicine Foundation (OMF).
Renegade Research runs patient-led, decentralized studies, like Remission Biome, also funded by Vitalik and other anonymous donors ($395k crypto). Read more about Remission Biome in this Science News article: “How patient-led research could speed up medical innovation”
OMF funds and coordinates global research into diagnostics and treatments for complex chronic diseases and has received funding ($10.2million crypto) from the Pineapple fund, Patient Led Research Fund, and Vitalik Buterin’s Balvi-funded LC initiatives.
Isabel Ramirez-Burnett
Renegade Research
Isabel Ramirez-Burnett, President, CEO, and founding member of Renegade Research, pivoted from a medical career disrupted by ME/CFS to become a Systems Engineer. Now a board-certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC) and Autoimmune Protocol Certified (AIP-C), she also directs Remission Biome, Renegade Research’s flagship project.
Isabel’s scientific passion fueled an early career in pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Driven by over 40 years living with ME/CFS, she embraces innovative scientific paradigms. Harnessing her systems expertise and autodidactic scientific knowledge, she aims to decipher the complexities of multi-system chronic illness. Her path has transformed into a quest, driving her, as a leader, to transform research frameworks, improve patient outcomes, and unite clinicians, researchers, and other champions. Her motto is Exponential Decay of Suffering!
Tess Falor
Renegade Research
Tess Falor, PhD, is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Renegade Research. With an undergrad degree in Aerospace Engineering and a PhD in Earth and Planetary Science from UC Berkeley, she developed a strong foundation in systems thinking and innovation. At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she helped take bold mission ideas, considered impossible to build by many, and make them reality. While in academia she built scientific instruments and analyzed data from Mars.
Her aspirations of leading space missions and becoming an astronaut were halted by complex, chronic illnesses. She left aerospace and launched the Remission Biome project. As a passionate advocate for transparency and collaboration in science, she integrates her technical expertise with lived experience pushing forward coordinated N-of-1 trials and community-driven protocols.
Kimberly Hicks
Open Medicine Foundation
Kimberly Hicks is the COO/CFO/Treasurer of the Open Medicine Foundation, and is a C-suite Finance industry veteran with over 25 years of leadership, business transformation, business development/sales, merger integrations, and major strategic initiative experience across private and public sectors, and international settings. Early in her career she was also involved in projects with the US Air Force to codify effective teaching behaviors and intelligent tutoring capabilities and apply those to intelligent aircraft diagnostic tools.
She has worked with Open Medicine Foundation since its early days, and has been instrumental in scaling the organization to the global collaborative research entity it is today. As a patient, she is driven by a need to accelerate research findings, using data-driven systems thinking, into diagnostics and treatments and bring precision healthcare to all patients suffering from these diseases.