Funding

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Potential sources of funding

At your institution

  • Biology, bioengineering and engineering departments or colleges
  • Establish yourself as a student club and get money from your student activities association

From local companies

  • Try contacting alumni from your institution who work at local biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies

Examples from other schools

  • University of Cambridge
  • [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/Sponsorship MIT]

Expenses

  • Student stipends (generally at the standard undergraduate research assistant level for your university)
  • Travel costs
    • For instructors to attend the Teach the Teachers conference in Spring
    • For students to attend the Jamboree in November
  • DNA synthesis (~$1.40 per bp synthesized)
  • Materials costs for the team
Personal tools
Past/present/future years