July 2023: Edmond J. Safra Center supports TAU iGEM team
A TAU team, led by Prof. Tamir Tuller, will participate in the iGEM 2023 competition for the fifth time.
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) is a worldwide synthetic biology competition. Hundreds of groups from around the world participate and present novel ideas and solutions for key challenges in synthetic biology.
This year, a TAU team led by Prof. Tamir Tuller, Edmond J. Safra member (Engineering), will participate in the competition for the fifth time. The team includes thirteen excellent students from Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, and Bioinformatics.
The team’s project, termed Ctrl C, aims to develop innovative methods that will allow, for the first time, precise calibration of the quantity of small DNA molecules (called plasmids) within a cell. Since plasmids are central to biomedical research in both academia and industry, the project is expected to contribute, among other things, to efficient development of drugs and therapeutics, efficient production of food in the food-tech industry, as well as fundamental and applied research in the fields of life sciences and engineering.
Read more about the project here.
The Edmond J. Safra Center is one of the iGEM TAU team's supporters.
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