Thank you to all ARSX2023 finalists for your well-presented pitches at today’s pitch event. 

For those that couldn't tune in to today’s Final Event & Awardee Announcement, after a truly close deliberation session, judges selected the following three teams to be awarded a $100,000 prize to further their research and development, in conjunction with the insights gleaned from this experience:

 

Sterile Fertility to Ensure Fish for All by Erin Legacki, Brian Peterson, Heather Hamlin, Beth Cleveland, Melissa Milligan

Bioengineered Flower Traits for Pollinator Health by Vincent Ricigliano, Jim Thomson, Mike Simone-Finstrom, Lanie Bilodeau, Alexander McMenamin, Shaun Curtain 

NanoVax + Egg-cellent IgY: Conquering Mycotoxins by Revathi Shanmugasundaram