GENEWIZ Week Awards Program 2024
To celebrate 25 years of fueling scientific discovery, we’re pleased to offer a series of funding awards designed to continue supporting advancements in genomics research! This year’s GENEWIZ Week included 25 awards totaling $50,000 with funding opportunities across integrated solutions, sequencing, gene synthesis, emerging technologies, and more. Our awards program recognizes excellence in genomics research and enables recipients to access the tools needed to achieve their research goals.
Congratulations to our award recipients on this well-deserved achievement! The significance of their research in advancing genomics is truly impressive and we’re delighted to help empower their discoveries. Check out some of the winning projects below!
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Award Recipients
$5,000 Emerging Technologies Award
Xiang Zheng
Assistant Professor, Aarhus University
Advancing personalized oncology through spatial single-cell-type multi-omics in renal cancer
$2,000 Emerging Technologies Award
Andrea Elia
Ph.D., Temple University
Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of cardiovascular impairment in Alzheimer’s disease
$1,000 Emerging Technologies Award
Cristina Penaranda
Assistant Professor, National Jewish Health
A novel dual-scRNAseq platform to unravel heterogeneous host-bacteria interactions
$1,000 Emerging Technologies Award
Denise Ragusa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brunel University London
Single-cell transcriptomics of t(7;12) infant acute myeloid leukaemia patients
$1,000 Emerging Technologies Award
Ankita Srivastava
Research Associate, Thomas Jefferson University
Unveiling the molecular landscape and spatial distribution of reprogrammed hepatocytes in alcoholic liver disease
$5,000 Integrated Solutions Award
Taylor Gill
Molecular Engineering Lead, HelixNano
Screening pipeline for multiplexed CAR-T therapies
$5,000 Sequencing & Quantification Award
Nicola Annels
Senior Research Fellow, University of Surrey
Investigating the prostate cancer microbiome and tumour immune microenvironment to understand ethnic disparity in prostate cancer clinical outcomes
$2,000 Sequencing & Quantification Award
Ana Saldarriaga
Graduate Student, Fordham University
Unveiling the hidden presence: assessing the Orinoco crocodile’s distribution in Colombia through eDNA
$1,000 Sequencing & Quantification Award
Brenna Levine
Assistant Professor, Kean University
Genomics of rattlesnake hybridization with implications for evolution of venom complexity and toxicity
$1,000 Sequencing & Quantification Award
Aayushi Uberoi
Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Characterizing emerging lineages within Staphylococcus aureus complex
$1,000 Sequencing & Quantification Award
Bailey West
Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
HMGA1 modulates chromatin state and transcriptional networks involved in plasticity in refractory myeloid leukemia
$5,000 Gene Synthesis Award
Patricia Lam
Research Scientist, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Screen for promoter/enhancer elements that increase transgene expression in dual gene AAV vectors
$2,000 Gene Synthesis Award
Elina Tanskanen
Ph.D. Student, Imperial College London
Delivering RNA for cancer immunotherapy using polymer nanoparticles
$1,000 Gene Synthesis Award
Rock Zhi-Yan Du
Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii
Using microalgae as the super factories to produce important bioproducts