Our Sponsors
We are excited to announce many great sponsors for the iGEM UZH Team 2019. We are deeply grateful for everyone who has supported us with financial resources and lab materials. Without them all, our project and our goals would not have been attainable.
🏆 Platinum Sponsor
The UZH Science Alumni is the association of graduates of the Faculty of Science of the University of Zurich. It actively promotes the maintenance and development of personal contacts between former MNF students and staff. And helps alumni to build up a network and promotes the exchange of knowledge and experience beyond the boundaries of the field.
🥇 Gold Sponsors
The Werner Siemens Foundation was founded in 1923 in Schaffhausen (Switzerland). It provides financial support for outstanding innovations in technology and science. We are deeply grateful for the support of the foundation, which enables us to present ourselves to the outside world in the best possible way.
Biogen is a large biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in the discovery, development, and delivery of therapies for the treatment of neurodegenerative, hematologic, and autoimmune diseases to patients worldwide. Their generous contribution to our project helped us a lot and we greatly appreciate it!
The President's Fund of the University of Zurich promotes research through donations. Thanks to the UZH Foundation, progress in research and teaching is accelerated and new knowledge can be shared more quickly with society. We are very thankful for the support provided by the President's Fund.
Novartis is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and is based in Basel, Switzerland. They target many of the world most prominent diseases such as Cancer and Diabetes with their drugs. Their contribution went towards financing our trip to Boston, many thanks!
IDT provides custom DNA and RNA oligonucleotides to over 82'000 customers! With the gblock synthesis they also offer custom large fragment DNA synthesis. This year, they provided 20kB of free gblock synthesis for every participating iGEM team. This was very important for our medal requirements and without the synthesis we wouldn't have been able to do this part of our project. Much appreciated!
Promega specializes in genomics, protein analysis and expression, cellular analysis, drug discovery and genetic identity. Their product range includes more than 4'000 different items and through their generous sponsorship, we can also benefit from their excellent products.
Microsynth is a leading service and solution provider of high-quality DNA/RNA oligonucleotides and robust DNA/RNA sequencing. Thanks to Mycrosynth, we can be sure that in our lab the correct DNA sequences are chosen to be worked with.
Merck is one of the oldest and biggest companies in the world that supply chemicals for research and pharmaceuticals. They offered us a big discount on their products, allowing us to buy a great pipette set for our team at an affordable price!
🥈 Silver Sponsors
SnapGene offers us the fastest and easiest way to plan, visualize, and document all our molecular biology procedures. Thanks to SnapGene we can visualize all our cloning steps beforehand which really saves time and effort. Thank you for providing us the licences for your program.
Socorex' manufacturing programme includes a wide variety of high precision instruments used for reliably measuring, dosing, transferring, dispensing and injecting liquids in a large number of applications. The company was founded in 1940 already and is fully committed to the best precision and quality possible. We are happy to count Socorex among our sponsors.
The Institute of Molecular Life Sciences of the University of Zurich is a group of researchers investigating several aspects of molecular and cell biology in a wide variety of model systems and model organisms. We thank the IMLS for their support during our work in the laboratory, both through financial support and the provision of working places.
As a production and service company, the Axonlab is active in the diagnostics and pharmaceutical industries as well as in medical technology. They offer a wide range of products, from the manufacture of medical plastic parts and systems to the assembly of components in the automotive industry and the sale of cosmetic and therapeutic products. We are proud to be able to use their products in our laboratory as well.