Congratulations to the Virginia iGEM team for receiving a Gold Medal in the 2022 iGEM Competition, held October 26-28, 2022 at the Paris Porte de Versailles Expo.   The team also received nomination for the Best Diagnostic prize, a significant recognition of the team’s innovative research.  The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition is an annual collegiate research contest in synthetic biology, an area of research at the interface of biology and engineering, in which designer cells are engineered to solve global problems.  Thousands of undergrad and overgrad students from over 350 institutions, across more than 40 countries, competed this year.  The Virginia iGEM team presented “AtheroSHuffle,"  a novel point-of-care device to detect early stage atherosclerosis.  Support from the National Science Foundation, MITRE Corp., and alumni was especially key to enabling the team’s research and participation in the 2022 competition.  Team Virginia (shown above) included Marisa Guajardo (Neuroscience), Alexander Heise (Biology), Miranda Khoury (Biomedical Engineering), Jayati Maram (Biomedical Engineering), Godwin Oluwafemi (Biomedical Engineering and Economics), Justin Orchard-Hays (Chemistry), Isha Patel (Biomedical Engineering), Ivory Tang (Mathematics), Peneeta Wojcik (Biomedical Engineering), and Yilun Zhou (Chemistry and Neuroscience); not shown are Alyssa Dioguardi (Biology and Commerce) and Yasir Mahboda (Biology and Data Science).  The team’s faculty advisor is Prof. Keith Kozminski (Biology).  Click here to learn more about iGEM at UVA, now accepting applications for its 17th year.