iGEM Athens 2026

Touchdown at Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos 🛬 The wait is over - iGEM Athens 2026 is here!🧬 With Synthetic Biology and Engineering as our tools, we’re ready for a year of ideas, teamwork, and discoveries with real impact. Stay tuned… the countdown is on!⏳

This is iGEM Athens 2024 team🧬 We invite you to join us in this year’s journey🔬🫶🏽

Our team, iGEM Athens 2024 at the 2nd Panhellenic Student Conference of Bioscientists in Alexandroupolis on the 22nd-24th of March.🔬🧫🧬

As we are finishing up for this year, we want to thank our sponsors for believing in us! Their contribution was crucial for our project and we wouldn't have made it without it! Also, we want to thank our universities supporting our effort scientifically, as well as financially!

We want to thank the Prime Minister of Greece,  Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, for inviting us to the Maximos Mansion in order to meet our team in person and learn more about our project. It was our honor!

Our team received a Gold Medal🏅, running in the Diagnostics track and the Model, Education and Entrepreneurship subcategories. After a year of preparation, we participated in the 20th International Synthetic Biology Competition iGEM, taking place on November 2-5 in Paris.

Here is the ScentiPD app, made to analyze the colorimetric output of our kit. After sufficient real world data has been acquired, it will enable us to distinguish between samples suggestive of Parkinson's Disease and healthy controls using Deep Learning.

Joy Milne's ability to detect Parkinson’s Disease (PD) by scent, along with the fact that the M13 bacteriophage with its elongated body and pVIII proteins on the surface kinda looks like a centipede, gave rise to our project logo and name, ScentiPD!✨

Our project "SCENTIPD" is hopefully the creation of a diagnostic kit for the detection and semi-quantification of specific VOCs from skin sebum, that are associated with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). We use the modified M13 Bacteriophage as a colorimetric biosensor.

We won the Mindspace University for Life Sciences Competition!🥇 This is a program organized and delivered by entrepreneurs-mentors and judges from Silicon Valley, Greece and Europe. It takes us closer to a gold medal and potentially founding a start-up company.

It's time to meet the new iGEM Athens team for 2023!🎉 We are excited and ready to do our best in order to take Athens to new heights! Stay tuned, the best is yet to come...

The team is now planning its next steps for next year’s competition! More Paris content is on the way and applications for new members will be open soon; so … stay tuned!

Our research work is documented on the following website and is accessible to all: 2022.igem.wiki/athens/ Hope you enjoy it! 😍

We are pleased to announce that our team won a gold medal 🥇 competing in the “Foundational Advance” track #Jamboree2022 with the project #PERspectives. We received two nominations for the “Best #Education Award”🎓 and for the “Best #Safety and Security Award”☣️

Final day of @iGEM #Jamboree 🥳✌️🤘

Do you want to know more about our project #PERspectives? We @igemathens are now presenting at Plaza 1! #iGEM #iGEM2022 #Jamboree ⁦@iGEM⁩ ⁦@iGEMCommunity⁩

Medals waiting for who🤔 @iGEM

Fingers crossed 🤞🏻✌🏻