Safety & Security Grant Opportunity for
iGEM 2021 Teams
$5000 each for 5 iGEM Competition teams
At 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!