Our Sponsors

The NTU-Singapore iGEM 2009 Team would like to extend its heartiest gratitude to the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering of Nanyang Technological University for their utmost support and generous contribution towards our research funds.

Gold Sponsors

Genentech Singapore

Considered the founder of the biotechnology industry, Genentech has been delivering on the promise of biotechnology for more than 30 years, using human genetic information to discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. Genentech was founded in 1976 by the late venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and the biochemist Dr. Herbert W. Boyer. The company's goal was to develop a new generation of therapeutics created from genetically engineered copies of naturally occurring molecules important in human health and disease. Within a few short years, Genentech scientists proved it was possible to make medicines by splicing genes into fast-growing bacteria that produced therapeutic proteins. Since its founding in 1976, the company has focused its drug discovery efforts on therapies that would fill unmet needs. Today, Genentech manufactures and commercializes multiple biotherapeutics for critical medical conditions in the areas of oncology, immunology, and disorders of tissue growth and repair; for example, Avastin ®, Rituxan ® and Raptiva ®.

Genentech Singapore Pte. Ltd. will be Singapore’s first microbial-based biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility.

Silver Sponsors

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