Team:Chalmers-Gothenburg/Sponsors

Sponsors

Life Science Engineering, Chalmers Area of Advance

Life Science Engineering is an organization of Chalmers University of Technology that studies fundamentals and provide engineering solutions to the Life Science sector, including health care, the food industry, and the biotech industry. Their work contributes to the development of a sustainable society, where biotechnology is used for sustainable production of fuels, chemicals and materials. They provided us with financial support.

Division of Systems and Synthetic Biology

The Systems and Synthetic Biology division is part of the Department of Biology and Biological Engineering of Chalmers University of Technology. It is headed by Professor Jens Nielsen. The division has contributed to our project by supervising us and providing us with laboratory space and equipment. The Systems and Synthetic Biology division also provided us with financial support.

Chalmers Mastercard Scholarship

Chalmers MasterCard is a MasterCard service that donates a percentage of their turnover as scholarships for Chalmers student projects that enable students to do something unusual during their education. They supported us financially.

IDT

IDT is a leader in development and manufacturing of products for research and diagnostic life science markets. The world’s largest supplier of custom nucleic acids, IDT serves academic research, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical development communities with products that support applications including: next generation sequencing (NGS), gene amplification, SNP detection, expression profiling, gene quantification, and synthetic biology. They provided free DNA synthesis of our basic BioBricks.

Twist Bioscience

Twist Bioscience is a company that provide their services to people in fields such as medicine, agriculture, industrial chemicals and data storage. They provide their synthetic DNA tools to customers that are developing ways to better lives and improve the sustainability of the planet. They provided us with free DNA synthesis.

New England Biolabs

New England Biolabs is a leader in the discovery and development of molecular biology reagents, restriction enzymes and others. They provided us with free Gibson Assembly reagents.

Eurofins

With EUR 2.54 billion in annual revenues and over 30,000 employees in around 375 sites in 41 countries, Eurofins Scientific is a leading international group of laboratories providing a unique range of analytical testing services to the pharmaceutical, food, environmental and consumer products industries and as well as to governments. They provided us with free Tube seq labels for DNA sequencing.

Oatly

Oatly is a Swedish company that produces and sells oat-based alternatives to dairy products, active in 22 countries. The company has expanded quickly and has had much success regarding their publicity and public relations projects. The trademark of their PR work has been transparency, honesty and an ambition to make the future a better place. They assisted us both through financial support and by giving us visibility on their media platforms.