We started CureTogether because we have loved ones who live with pain, every day. Research just isn’t going fast enough for them, so we want to help it go faster. We started with three conditions that are closest to our heart and that are also chronically underfunded: vulvodynia, endometriosis, and migraine. We quickly expanded to include all conditions, including aging, because so many people were writing in to ask us if we could study their condition too.

Doing disease research in molecular biology labs, we felt like the experiments we were doing were so far removed from the actual patient experience, and we wanted to do more to help real people in pain. Today, with so much data being generated and technology costs dropping, science is becoming increasingly information-based instead of test-tube-based. This opens research up to crowdsourcing, where millions of brains analyzing the same data can come up with solutions to problems that no one has yet been able to crack.

CureTogether brings patients and researchers together in a massive worldwide collaboration to find cures for some of the most painful, prevalent, chronic conditions affecting millions of people every day. By opening up scientific research to brilliant minds around the world, we can work together to give people a chance at a pain-free life.

Please join us today, or read more about how it works.

- Alexandra Carmichael and Daniel Reda