UNL COBRE director Janos Zempleni leads one of the 14 teams receiving a Phase 2 prize in the National Institutes of Health’s Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge. It is a three-phase competition with prizes totaling $6 million; Zempleni and Jiantao Guo, professor of chemistry, were among the 30 winners in Phase 1.
Zempleni’s second-round win, which comes with a $250,000 prize, places Nebraska among a group of prestigious national research institutions and enables the team to compete in the initiative’s third phase. The team’s success showcases the potential for major breakthroughs at the intersection of biomedical science and agriculture.
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