{"id":37650,"date":"2025-07-01T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/programs\/freezer-challenge\/past-winners\/freezer-challenge-2023-winners-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:41:56","slug":"freezer-challenge-2022-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/es\/programs\/freezer-challenge\/past-winners\/freezer-challenge-2022-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezer Challenge 2022 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n \n\n \n

The 2022 Challenge engaged nearly 1,200 labs and saved over 9.5 million kWh\u2014highlighting the real-world climate impact of lab sustainability practices.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n \n\n <\/sc-section-header>\n \n \t \"energy<\/picture>\n \n Energy savings, carbon reduction, and global participation in the 2022 Freezer Challenge\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n <\/sc-image>\n<\/sc-container>\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n

This year\u2019s challenge demonstrated how simple lab actions can scale to massive environmental savings. Here\u2019s what our global community accomplished together.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n \n\n <\/sc-section-header>\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n

Total energy saved across all participating labs.<\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n <\/sc-card> \n \n\n \n

Greenhouse gas emissions avoided.<\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n <\/sc-card> \n \n\n \n

Participated globally across all sectors.<\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n <\/sc-card> \n \n\n \n

Organizations represented in the 2022 Challenge.<\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n <\/sc-card> \n \n\n \n

Participating cold storage units.<\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n <\/sc-card> \n \n\n \n

Electricity use equivalent to the energy saved.<\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n <\/sc-card>\n <\/sc-grid>\n\n \n <\/sc-container>\n<\/sc-container>\n\n\n\n \n \n

Award categories for the Freezer Challenge<\/b><\/h2>\n

While every participating lab is a winner for helping save an incredible amount of energy, <\/span>we are proud to honor the below labs for their significant contribution to the Freezer Challenge.<\/p>\n

kwh\/day savings is not the only determinant of whether a lab or organization receives a top award or honorable mention. Many actions in the Freezer Challenge do not equate to energy savings – normalized points is the first factor looked at, then kwh\/day saved.<\/p>\n

Note: <\/b>Winning Streak Awards are<\/span><\/i> given to previous year’s winners that exceeded their energy savings from last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Biotech\/pharmaceutical sector winners\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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  • Top Organization Award:<\/strong> <\/span>Amgen<\/li>\n
  • Large Size Lab Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Amgen\u00a0<\/strong>Massachusetts Pivotal Biologics Lab, USA<\/li>\n
  • Medium Size Lab Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Raw Materials Lab, Bio-Rad (Kidlington Branch), Oxfordshire, UK<\/li>\n
  • Small Size Lab Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Process Biochemistry Lab in Biogen at Cambridge,\u00a0USA<\/li>\n
  • Biorepository\/Core Services\/Shared Cold Storage Facility Award:\u00a0<\/strong>South San Francisco Biobank, Astrazeneca, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Academic sector winners<\/b><\/h3>\n
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    • Top Organization Award:<\/strong> University of Virginia, USA<\/li>\n
    • Large Size Lab Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Traidl-Hoffmann\u00a0Lab, Institute of Environmental Medicine, University of Augsburg, Germany<\/li>\n
    • Medium Size Lab Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Bristol Bioresource Laboratories, University of Bristol, UK<\/li>\n
    • Small Size Lab Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Manne Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA<\/li>\n
    • Biorepository\/Core Services\/Shared Cold Storage Facility Award:\u00a0<\/strong>The Indiana CTSI Specimen Storage Facility, the Indiana University School of Medicine, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Government sector winners<\/b><\/h3>\n
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      • Top Government Organization Award:\u200b<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Central Veterinary Laboratory in Harare, Zimbabwe<\/li>\n
      • Medium Size Lab Award:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>The Ostrander Laboratory of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health\u200b,\u00a0USA<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Hospital\/clinical\/other winners<\/b><\/h3>\n
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        • Top Organization Award<\/strong>: Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, USA<\/li>\n
        • Large Size Lab Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Microbiology Lab, St. Vincent\u2019s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<\/li>\n
        • Medium Size Lab Award:\u00a0<\/strong>NSW Biochemical Genetics Service, Sydney Children\u2019s Hospital Network, Australia<\/li>\n
        • Small Size Lab Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Richard Wood Lab, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA<\/li>\n
        • Biorepository\/Core Services\/Shared Cold Storage Facility Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Nationwide Children\u2019s Abigail Wexner Research Institute Biopathology Center, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Honorable mentions (organizations)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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          • MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA<\/li>\n
          • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA<\/li>\n
          • The Institute of Cancer Research, UK<\/li>\n
          • \u200bNational Institutes of Health, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            \u200b<\/span>Honorable mentions (labs)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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            • Sample Technologies Lab, QIAGEN, Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Congratulations once again to all the winner’s of this year’s competition, and to the thousands of labs and scientists that participated this year.<\/b><\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n <\/sc-container>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n \n

              Join the Freezer Challenge<\/h2>\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n\n \n Want to be next year\u2019s winner?\n <\/sc-rich-text> \n

              Register your lab and start reducing your energy impact while earning recognition.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text> \n Get Started\n <\/sc-button> <\/sc-cta-inline>\n\n<\/sc-container>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2465,"featured_media":0,"parent":37609,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Freezer Challenge 2022 Winners","_seopress_titles_desc":"Discover the top-performing labs and organizations honored in the 2022 Freezer Challenge for their leadership in sustainable cold storage practices.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37650","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58125,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37650\/revisions\/58125"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}