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The 2023 edition of the iGEM international synthetic biology competition, created originally at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT; Cambridge, USA), was the second to be held in Paris.
More than 400 student teams from across the globe presented their innovative projects at the Grand Jamboree in the presence of researchers and industrials. All of the projects lay within synthetic biology but reached toward not only science and technology but also ethics & society, regulatory issues, market studies, and more.
For the 2023 event, Genopole again gave its support to the Paris-Saclay team, a contender for one of the grand prizes with its project OptoGenEYEsis aimed at improving the efficacy of vision disorder therapies. On the second step of the best French teams, the Paris-Saclay team had a very successful iGEM. It won a gold medal for having met all of the competition’s scientific and technical criteria, counted itself among the four nominees for the Best Software Tool Prize, and especially, for the first time in its history, took home the Best Hardware Prize recognizing the conception of an innovative, miniaturized, automated laboratory system piloted by artificial intelligence.