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11.11.2008 German Cancer Research Centre

The labors of the past few months have been rewarded: The Heidelberg team performed extremely well at the internationally renowned iGEM competition held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA. The team, a first-time participant at iGEM, was awarded three special prizes and a gold medal for their scientific work. For the past four months, the team of 16 undergraduate students under supervision of Professor Dr. Roland Eils and Dr. Victor Sourjik had been working on their project called “Ecolicence to Kill”. Their goal was to genetically reengineer bacteria to make them detect and specifically kill pathogens or cancer cells.

Heidelberg Team Sweeps Prizes

The labors of the past few months have been rewarded: The Heidelberg team performed extremely well at the internationally renowned iGEM competition held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA. The team, a first-time participant at iGEM, was awarded three special prizes and a gold medal for their scientific work. For the past four months, the team of 16 undergraduate students under supervision of Professor Dr. Roland Eils and Dr. Victor Sourjik had been working on their project called “Ecolicence to Kill”. Their goal was to genetically reengineer bacteria to make them detect and specifically kill pathogens or cancer cells.

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