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iGEM 2021 Team Impact Grant
Earlier this year, we announced a first-of-its-kind initiative to distribute a total of $225,000 in grants to 90 iGEM teams during the 2021 competition season, with the support of the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation. We are absolutely thrilled that more than 200 iGEM teams from all over the world responded with amazing applications!
Watch the announcement from the Opening Weekend Festival:
Teams that participate in the iGEM Competition are pioneers of synthetic biology, and these grants will empower 2021 teams to secure funding for impactful projects in global pandemic response, climate change, agriculture, biomaterials, and many other critical areas. Support for these grants is provided by the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation of Research Corporation Technologies, Inc. (RCT).
We evaluated every application we received on a straightforward set of criteria - we wanted to know who is on your team, what you’re planning to accomplish, why it’s important to your community (and the world!), and how this funding will help you to reach your goals this year, and you all responded with some of the most exciting iGEM projects we’ve seen yet!
We selected 90 teams with projects that are impactful and technically ambitious (but achievable), with an eye towards teams that are already on their way to reaching their intended goals for their projects this year. The teams listed here will each receive a $2,500 grant to help take their projects to the next level:
Aalto-Helsinki
Aboa
ABSI_Kenya
AFCM-Egypt
ASU
Athens
BJEA_China
BOKU-Vienna
Bolivia
Bonn-Rheinbach
British_Columbia
Bulgaria
Calgary
CCA_San_Diego
CCU_Taiwan
Chalmers-Gothenburg
Cornell
DTU-Denmark
Duke
DUT_China
Ecuador
Edinburgh
FCB-UANL
FSU
Guelph
Gunma
Hamburg
HKIS
Hong_Kong_HKU
Heidelberg
IISER_Berhampur
IISER_Kolkata
IISER_Mohali
IISER_TVM
IISER-Pune-India
Istanbul_Tech
Istanbul_United
Jiangnan_China
KU_Leuven
KUAS_Korea
Lambert_GA
Lethbridge_HS
MADRID_UCM
Manchester
Marburg
McMaster
MIT
MIT_MAHE
NCTU_Formosa
NEFU_China
NTNU-Trondheim
NU_Kazakhstan
NUS_Singapore
OhioState
Open_Science_Global
Paris_Bettencourt
Queens_Canada
Rio_UFRJ_Brazil
RUM-UPRM
St_Andrews
Stanford
Stony_Brook
Stuttgart
SZU-China
Tec-Monterrey
TecCEM
Thessaloniki
TokyoTech
Toronto
TU_Darmstadt
TU_Kaiserslautern
TUDelft
UCDavis
UChicago
UESTC-China
UI_Indonesia
UMA_MALAGA
UMaryland
UNILA_LatAm
UNSW_Australia
UParis_BME
UPenn
Uppsala
USP-EEL-Brazil
Victoria_Wellington
Vilnius-Lithuania
Warwick
Washington
XJTLU-CHINA
Yonsei_Korea
For any questions about our selection process and the iGEM Foundation’s partnership with the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, please contact kristin [AT] iGEM [DOT] org. We’ll be updating this Impact Grants page with project descriptions in the coming days!
About iGEM
The iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) Foundation is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to advancing synthetic biology, education through competition, the development of an open community and collaboration, and building the workforce of the future. iGEM’s main program is the iGEM Competition, which challenges teams to create biology projects that are safe, responsible, and good for the world. iGEM is about local people solving local problems everywhere.
About the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation
Research Corporation Technologies established the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation in December 1998 to provide financial support for scientific research and educational programs at qualified nonprofit organizations. Since its formation, the foundation has provided over $35 million in support of selected scientific and educational programs throughout the United States.
With thanks to the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation of
iGEM Foundation
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology, education and competition, and the development of an open community and collaboration. Visit us at igem.org
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