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Biodesign Challenge and Mars Wrigley Select Winners of Biodesign Sprint

November 9, 2022 by Asia Food Journal

Biodesign Challenge

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Biodesign Challenge and Mars Wrigley announce the winners of a competition to explore new ways food systems can nurture the well-being of humanity and the environment.

Biodesign Challenge (BDC), a nonprofit student biotechnology competition, and Mars Wrigley announced the winners of the Biodesign Sprint. The month-long innovation challenge took place in October to reimagine how biotech could be integrated into the food system to create a more resilient and sustainable future. Biodesign, a discipline that bridges art, design, and biology, is becoming instrumental in harnessing new biotechnologies to address sustainability and environmental crises.

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Forty-three teams from 16 countries spent the month creating projects that explore better ways to increase human and environmental well-being by reimagining food systems. The 167 participants came from universities, including Harvard, Royal College of Art, Tongji, and RISD, as well as professionals working at the intersection of biotechnology and design. 

On November 3-4, teams presented their projects to a judging panel made up of 34 experts from Mars Wrigley and BDC. Each team may now have the opportunity to collaborate on their project with Mars Wrigley.

“The well-being of people and the health of the planet go hand in hand.  We hope this design challenge amplifies the opportunity to bring them together with more intention,” said Dondeena Bradley, Mars Wrigley’s Global Vice President at the Wellbeing Center of Expertise.

Winning teams

  • Winner (nonstudent): ChiTownBio

The team developed a snack bar called Sprouted from native fruits, nuts, and berries indigenous to Chicago as part of an initiative to promote urban gardening in abandoned lots. 

  • Winner (student): Coast-To-Coast

To provide a sustainable alternative to the sugar industry and combat micro-plastic pollution, Coast-to-Coast created a new confectionary of gene-edited candy cap mushrooms that, in addition to being sweet, secrete an enzyme PETase that breaks down microplastics in the human digestive system.

  • Runner Up (nonstudent): University of Minnesota Biodesign Collaborative

FairFarms builds upon the rich tradition of the County Fair to convert underutilized fairgrounds into community spaces for farm innovation, training hubs, and greenhouses.

  • Runner Up (student): 4.6692016

Sugarware is a spoon designed with a bumpy shape to increase surface contact with taste buds and trigger the sweet-sensing response without any sugar or artificial sweeteners.

Participation Stats

  • 43 total teams: 24 students, 19 professional teams
  • 167 individual participants
  • 16 countries: United States, Canada, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany, Algeria, Kuwait, India, China, Indonesia, Australia, Japan, Poland, and Italy.

Speakers

  • Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University
  • LinYee Yuan is the founder and editor of MOLD, a print and online magazine that explores how designers can address the coming food crisis.

Other Topics: biodesign challenge, food technology, Mars Wrigley, sustainability

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