The Audacious Project, an initiative housed at TED, encourages the world’s greatest changemakers to dream bigger. A new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield at the Innovative Genomics Institute and announced today at the TED Conference in Vancouver is a big dream that uses the smallest tools: microbes.
The research initiative, “Engineering the Microbiome with CRISPR to Improve our Climate and Health,” will receive $70 million in funding from donors, making it the largest scientific project funded through The Audacious Project to date. It involves a close collaboration across three University of California (UC) campuses — the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC San Francisco — that capitalizes on the strengths of each institution.
“This cutting-edge initiative will harness the University of California’s research prowess to solve real-world problems in areas that affect us all: sustainability and health,” says University of California President Michael V. Drake, MD. “I’m very pleased to see multiple UC entities working collaboratively to develop and deploy new technology for the public good. I’m grateful to our philanthropic partners for supporting impactful research that will change the world for the better.”
$70M funding will catalyze a bold new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield to apply precision genome editing to microbial communities.
The Audacious Project, an initiative housed at TED, encourages the world’s greatest changemakers to dream bigger. A new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield at the Innovative Genomics Institute and announced today at the TED Conference in Vancouver is a big dream that uses the smallest tools: microbes.
The research initiative, “Engineering the Microbiome with CRISPR to Improve our Climate and Health,” will receive $70 million in funding from donors, making it the largest scientific project funded through The Audacious Project to date. It involves a close collaboration across three University of California (UC) campuses — the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC San Francisco — that capitalizes on the strengths of each institution.
“This cutting-edge initiative will harness the University of California’s research prowess to solve real-world problems in areas that affect us all: sustainability and health,” says University of California President Michael V. Drake, MD. “I’m very pleased to see multiple UC entities working collaboratively to develop and deploy new technology for the public good. I’m grateful to our philanthropic partners for supporting impactful research that will change the world for the better.”