No images? Click here New Safety & Security Grant Opportunity for iGEM 2021 Teams!$5000 each for 5 iGEM Competition teams - Apply by June 12At iGEM, we don’t see safety and security as just a set of rules to follow or a list of dangers to avoid. Rather, we think you can’t know whether you’re engineering biology to be good for the world if you haven’t thought about engineering it to be safe. But... how, exactly, should you go about engineering it to be safe? How can you creatively accelerate the evolution of synthetic biology towards benefits and away from risks? This is the kind of thorny technical challenge that iGEM teams excel at! To encourage teams to take on this challenge, we are offering up to 5 grants of up to $5000 to accelerate technical progress in biosafety and biosecurity! Direct Link: https://2021.igem.org/Teams/Grants/Safety What kinds of technical progress do we want to fund?
This is, of course, not an exhaustive list: we want to see your innovative ideas! Your project does not need to focus entirely on safety or security for your team to apply. Rather, we hope this grant enables you to dedicate additional time and resources to engineering safer synthetic biology. Click below to view the application: Direct Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/igem-safety-grant Missed something? See our newsletter archive to read previous issues |