An undergraduate students’ team from the University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), comprising a total of 13 students, has recently won a gold medal at the 2025 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition in Paris.
The team’s winning project focused on an innovative synthetic biology solution for termite control. It was the seventh consecutive year that the local university won an award at the iGEM competition. UM has so far won four gold medals from the competition.
This year’s competition attracted more than 400 teams from over 50 countries and regions, including teams from renowned educational institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University and Tsinghua University, according to UM.
Founded by MIT in 2003, iGEM encourages participants to use synthetic biology to address real-world problems. It has since become one of the world’s most prestigious student competitions in biotechnology.
Source and Photo: UM
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