Competitions and prizes in biotechnology
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There exist a number of competitions and prizes to reward distinguished contributions and to encourage developments in biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...

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Inducement prizes

  • The Archon X Prize
    Archon X Prize
    The Archon X Prize for Genomics, the second X Prize to be offered by the X Prize Foundation, based in Santa Monica, California, was announced on October 4, 2006. The Archon X Prize in genomics is a joint effort of the X Prize Foundation and the J...

     for Genomics of US$10,000,000 is to be awarded to "the first Team that can build a device and use it to sequence 100 human genomes within 10 days or less, with an accuracy of no more than one error in every 100,000 bases sequenced, with sequences accurately covering at least 98% of the genome, and at a recurring cost of no more than $10,000 (US) per genome."
  • The Prize4Life
    Prize4Life
    Prize4Life is a non-profit organization dedicated to the discovery of treatments and a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and motor neurone disease. The organization uses the inducement prize contest model. Prize4Life was founded in 2005 by Avi Kremer, an...

     ALS biomarker prize is a US$1,000,000 award for a reliable way of tracking progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...

     (ALS).
  • The Prize4Life
    Prize4Life
    Prize4Life is a non-profit organization dedicated to the discovery of treatments and a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and motor neurone disease. The organization uses the inducement prize contest model. Prize4Life was founded in 2005 by Avi Kremer, an...

     ALS treatment prize is a US$1,000,000 award for a therapy that reliably and effectively extends the life of ALS mice by 25%.
  • People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is offering a US$1,000,000 reward for a method of producing enough meat to be marketed in 10 U.S. states at a price competitive with chicken prices.
  • Illumina
    Illumina (company)
    Illumina, Inc. is a company incorporated in April 1998 that develops, manufactures and markets integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and biological function. Using its technologies, the company provides a line of products and services that serve the sequencing, genotyping and...

     iDEA Challenge to develop new visualization and data analysis techniques.

Recognition prizes

  • The Gotham Prize for Cancer Research is a US$1,000,000 prize awarded annually to "encourage new and innovative approaches to cancer research by fostering collaboration among top thinkers in the field--with the goal of leading to progress in the prevention, diagnosis, etiology and treatment of cancer."
  • Gruber Prize in Genetics
    Gruber Prize in Genetics
    The Gruber Prize in Genetics is one five, international awards made by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, an American non-profit organization based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City...

     is a US$500,000 prize awarded annually for distinguished contributions in any realm of genetics research.
  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     is an annual grant worth approximately 10 million SEK
    Swedish krona
    The krona has been the currency of Sweden since 1873. Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it, but especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value...

    . It is routinely awarded for contributions to biotechnology.
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