Solve a medical mystery, change a life.
Who We Are: Founded and funded by a patient whose condition is deteriorating and still defies every specialist, Medical Solution Bounty is overseen by a board-certified neurologist who screens each submission for plausibility before passing the strongest ideas to the clinical care team. We’re turning to the global medical community for help—before time runs out. Share your best hypothesis, advance care, and earn recognition plus a prize when real-world results follow.
We hope you’ll participate. By doing so, you’ll have the potential to win a six-figure reward, pioneer a breakthrough, and quite literally change a life.
On this site, you can access the fully de-identified case file of a real patient who is substantially suffering and who has gone undiagnosed and without effective treatments despite substantial efforts. Every idea you submit is first reviewed by the patients’ prescribing physician to ensure clinical safety, legal compliance, and HIPAA-integrity—so you know your insight reaches the right hands. Crack his diagnosis or find a treatment that works for him and you’ll earn a large cash prize, public acknowledgment (if you choose to accept it), and the satisfaction of turning serious suffering into a recovery story.
Whether you’re a doctor, scientist, data sleuth, or just love a medical mystery, we’d be grateful if you’d take part. Doing so is simple - just email us (medicalsolutionbounty@gmail.com) your idea for a diagnosis, treatment, or test to conduct, along with a convincing, well-reasoned rationale for why you’re proposing it. You can win if you crack the patient’s mystery or propose a treatment that’s effective!
Patient Info
Main Symptoms:
Constant dull diffuse “burning” sensation, a few inches above the belly button, present 100% of waking time.
Nausea that fluctuates throughout the day, varying from not at all present to fairly intense.
Despite extensive testing and multiple specialist consultations, no treatments that help significantly have been identified. Full information about his case can be found here.
Reward Structure
Grand Prize: $100,000
Awarded to a submission that leads to a cure or an effective treatment for the condition.
Best Submission Prize: $20,000
Awarded to the most promising submission that doesn't win the grand prize. This prize will be awarded regardless of whether any submission leads to effective treatment, so long as at least 50 total submissions are received.
Useful Information Prizes: Up to five at $1,000 each
Awarded to five different individuals who provide especially helpful submissions that result in:
A new treatment being attempted
A new test being conducted
A new diagnosis pathway being explored
These useful information prizes will be awarded even if the information ultimately doesn't lead to resolution of the condition.
Submission Form and Process
To participate in this bounty, please send your submission of a proposed treatment, test, diagnosis, or other helpful suggestion to medicalsolutionbounty@gmail.com, or simply fill out the Submission Form below. Please include a well-reasoned rationale for any recommendations being made. You will receive an email if your submission has been chosen as a prize winner.
All submissions are routed to the prescribing physician for initial clinical review. Patient privacy is paramount, and all identifying information has been removed from records.
By entering you agree to the Official Rules.