Opportunity type
Contest
Funding
Cause areas
Biosecurity & pandemic preparedness
Routes to impact
Direct high impact on an important cause
Skill-building & building career capital
Skill set
Research
Entrepreneur
Academia
Deadline
2026-03-15
Description
$10,000 in prizes are available for original, technically feasible ideas to speed up or reduce the cost of wet-lab biology experiments.
- Open to anyone worldwide (except those in US-blacklisted countries or affiliated with Astera Institute); anonymity is allowed.
- Submit a few paragraphs describing your idea by March 15th, 11:59pm PT to nsmccarty3@gmail.com with “Fast Biology” in the subject.
- Four prizes will be awarded ($5,000 / $3,000 / $1,000 / $1,000), with winners notified by March 22nd.
- Ideas must be concrete and technical, not general automation concepts; authors retain ownership but grant a non-exclusive license for publication.
No visa requirements are mentioned, but funds cannot be sent to US-blacklisted countries.
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