
GENEWIZ Summer Camp Grants
This summer, we're pleased to award a series of grants designed to support omics exploration! Congratulations to our grant recipients on this well-deserved achievement. Their cutting-edge research is bound to make an impact on the future of genomics, and we’re delighted to help fuel their scientific discoveries.
Check out some of the winning projects below!
NGS Explorer Grant: Choose your sequencing path
$3,000 NGS Explorer Grant
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Imane Allaoui
Ph.D. Student, University College Cork
Impact of the immunization route (oral, patch and intramuscular) on the pigs
transcriptomics profile
$2,000 NGS Explorer Grant
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Michael Metzger
Assistant Investigator, Pacific Northwest Research Institute
Evolution of an outbreak of transmissible cancers in clams
Synthesis Voyager Grant: Optimize gene construction
$5,000 Synthesis Voyager Grant
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Karen Mruk
Assistant Professor, East Carolina University
New RNA-based switches to study regenerative biology
$2,000 Synthesis Voyager Grant
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Alejandro Olmedo-Velarde
Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
Harnessing viral proteins to deliver and enhance protein-based biopesticides to control soybean aphid populations
Wizard Pioneer Grant: For new approaches, organisms or applications
$5,000 Wizard Pioneer Grant
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Fatima Farouk Aminu
Post Graduate Researcher, Coventry University
Investigating the role of hypoxia mediated metabolic dysregulation in immune evasion in pancreatic
ductal adenocarcinoma
$3,000 Wizard Pioneer Grant
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Reilly Brennan
Graduate Student (Ph.D. Candidate), Virginia Tech
De novo genome assembly of Oligoryzomys longicaudatus: Unlocking host tolerance to Andes orthohantavirus
$2,000 Wizard Pioneer Grant
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Lena Grinsted
Senior Lecturer in Zoology, University of Portsmouth
The tolerant spider: A new model for understanding alternative sociality