About Us

Compugene is an interdisciplinary student project that is part of the Centre for sythetic biology at TU Darmstadt. We are dedicated students of biomolecular engineering, (synthetic) biology, chemistry, computer sciences and technology of information systems and always open to taking up people from other disciplines. Our work involves setting up as well as executing our own research projects related to synthetic biology. This includes coming up with our own research ideas, independenty laboratory work and the aquisition of funds as well as presenting our work at conferences or in competitions. In comparison to other known student projects Compugene has no timelimit, we develop our projects all the way to a possible publication or patent.

Current projects

In our current project we are working on efficiently detecting denuge virus with a low-cost solution that can also be used in southern countries. For this purpose we are developing a user-friendly platform that is easy to store, as well as a cost-effective optical reader to evaluate the results quickly. Our test would meet a medical need since no test with these properties is in use so far, while for other Viruses of the Flaviridae familiy similar testsystems are already available. In addition dengue virus increased dramatically within the last 20 years, becoming one of the worst human pathogens transmitted by mosquitos. In 2013 it was estimated, that about 390 million infections occur every year and the virus is spreading. In 2023 multiple cases of dengue were reported in italy.

You are interested in joining us? Or supporting our work as a sponsor? [Contact] (internal link to contact page) us!

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