GENEWIZ Grant Winners

Explore some of our grant winners from past GENEWIZ Weeks, GENEWIZ University, Summer Camp, and the Academic Fast Grant Program. We’re proud to support innovative research and help advance discoveries that are shaping the future of genomics. Check out our 2025 GENEWIZ Grant Winners Recap and be on the lookout for future GENEWIZ grant opportunities.

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GENEWIZ 2026 Grant Winners

  • $10,000 PacBio Kinnex SMRT Grant

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    Anna Dischler

    Research Scientist/Lab Manager, University of Colorado Anschutz

    Resolving Full-Length FMR1 Transcript Isoforms Associated with CGG Repeat Expansions in FXTAS

  • $3,000 PacBio Kinnex SMRT Grant

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    Jing Wang

    Associate Specialist, University of California, San Francisco

    Temporal Dynamics of RNA Splicing During Human Brain Development

  • $2,000 PacBio Kinnex SMRT Grant

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    Kanishk Jain

    Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

    Characterizing full-length transcript isoform changes after acute PHRF1 degradation using PacBio Kinnex mRNA sequencing

  • $500 Sanger Sequencing Grant

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    Priya Arumugam

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Penn State University College of Medicine

    Genetic variants in IRGM and PNPLA3 impair autophagy and lipophagy, reducing metabolic hepatic responses to exercise in liver disease patients

  • $300 Sanger Sequencing Grant

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    Courtney Clark-Hachtel

    Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Asheville

    Mechanisms of extreme survival: Uncovering how tardigrades can tolerate extreme radiation

  • $5,000 New Wizard Grant

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    Vivek Khambhati

    Graduate Research Assistant, Louisiana State University

    Engineering a Scalable Escherichia coli RNAi Platform Integrating SIGS and MIGS for Enhanced Durability in Plant Disease Control

  • $3,000 New Wizard Grant

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    Jonathan Dain

    Ph.D. Student, UMass Boston

    Identifying the molecular mechanism of HPAI tolerance in asymptomatic Mallards

  • $2,000 Gene Synthesis Grant

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    Wesley Leong

    Visiting Undergraduate Research Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

    Generative Design of Cell Type-Specific mRNA Splicing for Programmable Gene Regulation

  • $3,000 NGS Grant

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    Tamilselvi Elango

    Research Scientist, University of Virginia

    Transcriptomic Profiling of Nano-Romidepsin Induced Epigenetic Reprogramming in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma