Double-take: "Luckily her professor funneled money from an existing NIH grant to fund her side project."<p>But seriously, this is awesome, guys. So much science just doesn't get done because nobody's willing to fund it.
I think "ordinary" people might be poor judges of good science research. I'm an engineer with a curiosity for many kinds of science, but even I would find it hard to determine whether a research project is promising and realistic.<p>The realistic but grounded research projects probably won't be as popular, as the "Put a man on Pluto" sort of projects.<p>The crowdfunding could easily go to the "wrong" projects.
This is really interesting haha. Crowdfunding company seeks crowdfunding. I'm excited to see how the VC climate shakes up in the next few years as crowdfunding becomes even bigger.