You bring the context
Clinical expertise, a relevant question, complete organized source material, local permissions and an active contribution to interpretation and review.
THE MICROSCOPIA COLLABORATIVE MODEL
Your expertise. Our scientific contribution. One accountable project.
microscopIA brings researchers, methods, data science and engineering into projects built around a meaningful health question. In an agreed joint investigation, our researchers contribute to the scientific work alongside the clinical or institutional team, from the question and methods to interpretation, reporting and agreed revisions.
We contribute scientific work
An assigned team contributes the agreed methods, analysis, evidence appraisal, engineering or evaluation, with supervision and documented quality checks.
We agree and review together
Named roles, a written scope, milestones, decision rights and final review connect the work to a defensible scientific output.
How we collaborate
What would you like to contribute or achieve?
Choose your role to see the appropriate route. A proposal starts a review; it does not automatically activate membership, approve a project or authorize data transfer.
Clinician or investigator
Turn a clinical question into a joint investigation.
Lead with the clinical problem and research-ready material. Explore the case-report and original-research calls, or discuss a separate study. Those two calls accept qualified members and nonmembers at their published project rates; the AI-image call has its own professional-membership requirements.
Prepare for the first conversation
Question, design, sample, complete organized data or case chronology, institution, permissions and available clinical supervision.
A collaboration becomes concrete in its written project brief.
Confirm these elements before work, payment or sensitive-data access. Existing approved agreements keep their terms; the public website does not replace a signed scope.
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Scientific question and outputs
Question, design, analysis or evaluation plan, reporting standards, deliverables and acceptance criteria.
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People and decisions
Clinical and methodological leads, assigned contributors, supervision, review duties and escalation contact.
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Data and permissions
Organized inputs, source custody, permitted uses, ethics and consent requirements, secure access and retention.
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Budget and coverage
Membership, project fees, third-party costs and any covered publication charges are separate items. Confirm milestones, currency, taxes and remedies.
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Credit and rights
Document actual contributions, authorship criteria, output affiliations, pre-existing rights, new IP and authorized dissemination.
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Execution and continuity
Start date, dependencies, progress reviews, revisions, changes, pauses and responsible handover if the project stops.
Understand what each relationship means.
- Membership
- An ongoing participation and learning relationship under the plan terms. It is separate from scientific approval and any new project fee.
- Joint research
- Researchers contribute substantive scientific work and share agreed responsibilities. Each person earns authorship through qualifying contributions and accountability.
- Technical or institutional work
- The agreement defines the specific scientific or technical deliverables, rights and responsibilities. A contract or payment alone does not create authorship or transfer clinical authority.
- Network and evidence
- A person’s employer, Network profile or independent publication does not establish an institutional partnership or prove microscopIA participated in that study.
Examine the work, its status and our actual role.
Our critical-care and ROP programs illustrate questions spanning access, clinical outcomes and technology. Review each record’s contributors, source, limitations and publication status; preprints and ongoing studies are identified separately.
Questions to resolve before committing
Will microscopIA researchers be authors?
Where they meet the applicable contribution, drafting or critical-review, approval and accountability criteria. Agree and document roles early, using CRediT where relevant. Payment, supervision, data provision or affiliation alone is insufficient.
Can I propose a project without buying membership first?
Yes: you can make a nonconfidential inquiry before joining. Each call, supervised project or institutional agreement defines its eligibility and costs. Check the specific route before paying.
Does sending a proposal authorize research or data access?
No. Scientific approval, institutional authority, ethics and consent requirements, contracts and an approved secure channel are resolved before execution or transfer. Initial forms ask only for nonconfidential information.