2012 Gen9 G-Prize

Rewarding innovators and disruptors who can transform an industry using synthesized DNA constructs.

The inaugural G-Prize contest, conceived and exclusively sponsored by Gen9, was launched to foster creative and innovative approaches for using synthetic DNA libraries to advance research in the production of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, biofuels and food.

The winners of the 2012 G-Prize are:

• 1^st place (500 GeneBits, up to 500kb):
  Tanja Kortemme, University of California, San Francisco 
  Computer-Aided Design of Sensor/Actuators
• 2^nd place (300 GeneBits, up to 300kb):
  Sarel Fleishman, Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel) 
  Computational Design of Novel Binding Antibodies: Designing High-Specificity and High-Affinity Insulin Binders
• 3^rd place (100 GeneBits, up to 100kb, two winners):
  Alfonso Jaramillo, Institute of Systems & Synthetic Biology (Evry, France) 
  Combinatorial Synthesis of RNA Integrated Circuits to Program Living Cells
  
  
  Xavier Duportet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & INRIA 
  Towards the Manipulation of Genomes On-Demand: High Throughput Discovery of New Recombination Sites
• CEO’s Award (100 GeneBits, up to 100kb):
  Lynn Rothschild, NASA 
  DNA Toolkit for Space Exploration
  
  
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