Grand Prize for the overall best project goes to... team Leiden!!

23 November 2020 16:30

We're very excited to share that we won the Grand Prize of iGEM 2020 in the finals yesterday! On Thursday, iGEM announced that team Aachen and team Leiden would go on to compete in the iGEM finals (Overgrad category). During the Giant Jamboree Closing and Award Ceremony, medals and prizes were awarded the best teams. Out of 250 competing teams, Team Leiden won the ultimate Grand Prize for the overall best project!

We also won:


- Gold medal
- Best track (Diagnostics)
- Best Wiki
- Best Inclusion
- Best Supporting Entrepreneurship

Apart from winning, nominations are also great achievements that we would like to share with you. We were nominated for:


- Best Poster
- Best Integrated Human Practices
- Best Model
- Best Basic Part

From now on, we continue to pursue our goal of making Rapidemic a reality. We want to thank once more our amazing donators, who so generously supported us and saw us through to winning the iGEM competition 2020. Without you, we couldn’t have done it!

Click here to read more about the day of the closing ceremony!