Team:Vilnius-Lithuania/Sponsors
Sponsors
It would be impossible for our team to participate in this competition without the support from various companies. Sponsors help us to cover project expenditures: laboratory costs, team registration fee, Giant Jamboree participation fee and travel expenses.
We express our biggest gratitude towards all the sponsors listed below.
Protein level sponsors
These are our general sponsors. They have provided us with reagents for our project and financial support.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of $17 billion and 50,000 employees in 50 countries. Company's mission is to enable the customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. They help the customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Vilnius Center of Excellence for Biosciences has world-class capabilities in manufacturing products for the life science market, and has an outstanding research and development (R&D) center, focused on the development of new products in all aspects of molecular, protein, and cellular biology. Products are broadly used worldwide to study gene structure, expression and variety, to create new diagnostics methods for innate, hereditary and infectious diseases.
Amilina
One of the biggest North Eastern EU bio-refinery structured industrial manufacturers, Amilina processes wheat into native and cationic starches, provides a large scale of products dedicated for nature-based high carbohydrate food and non-food applications, widely used as raw material for various industries, incl. paper and cardboard, textile, chemistry. The produced wheat glucose syrups serve food & beverages industrial markets, consumed as sweeteners, texturizing agents, spray-drying carriers, anti-crystallizing agents, binding agents. The remaining fibre and protein rich by-products provide specific functionality to a wide range of compound animal feeds. Driven by innovation Amilina serves worldwide customers.
Academic sponsors
Vilnius University
Vilnius University is the oldest and largest Lithuanian higher education institution. It was established in the 16th century and now is one the most important parts of culture, science and research in Lithuania. The mission of Vilnius University is to create, accumulate and disseminate knowledge by ensuring continuity of authentic university culture, dintinguished by the atmosphere where old traditions and new ideas enrich each other.
Institute of Biotechnology
Institute of Biotechnology is a part of Vilnius University, which focuses on scientific researches and biotechnology. Institute seeks to maintain the high standarts in scientific endevour, research training and technological advance, with its main focus in a broadly defined field of molecular biotechnology, including nucleic acid and protein technologies, bioinformatics, immunodiagnostics, drug design, microfluidics, next generation epigenomics and gene editing technologies.
Communication partners
OMConsulting
OMConsulting is a company, offering solutions on strategic communication. Their mission is to help people and different organizations to build and retain a good reputation. OMConsulting acts as advisor to managers, helping them to see an organization from a different perspective.
Enterprise Lithuania
Enterprise Lithuania is business-promoting agency, which works by providing high quality training, consultancy, by performing market analysis and offering business partner search services. Enterprise Lithuania gives advice to business agencies and operates as mentors for young and ambitious enterpreneurs like us.
Friends
Lithuanian World Community
– for accommodation in Boston during the conference
The Lithuanian World Community is a non-governmental and non-profit organization established in 1949 that unifies Lithuanian communities abroad. They organize educational, cultural, community, sports and social events and, in addition, assists lithuanians or lithuanian organizations in foreign countries.
Estravel
– for helping to find the best solutions for our journey.
Estravel Vilnius American Express was established in 1997. 18 years company successfully operated and occupied a leading position in Lithuania as travel agency and tour operator. The company operates in the Baltic level - travel service offices also are in Latvia and Estonia.
