Award categories for the Freezer Challenge

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

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.

Note: Winning Streak Awards are given to previous year’s winners that exceeded their energy savings from last year.

Biotech/pharmaceutical sector winners

• Top Organization Award: Amgen – 7,671 kWh/day saved

• Winning Streak Award: AstraZeneca – 7,962 kWh/day saved

• Large Lab Award​: Boston Research – Biology, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (United States) – 438 kWh/day saved

• Medium Lab Award: Sample Management Harrogate, Labcorp (United Kingdom) – 281 kWh/day saved

• Small Lab Award: Gothenburg Regional HBS Centre, AstraZeneca (Sweden) – 165 kWh/day saved

• Biorepository Award: Specimen Library, Bristol Myers Squibb (United States) – 307.15 kWh/day saved

• Biorepository Winning Streak Award: Labcorp Biorepository, Labcorp Central Laboratory Services (United States) – 3,869 kWh/day saved

Academic sector winners

• Top Organization Award: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (United States) – 1,339 kWh/day saved

• Lab Winning Streak Award: Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee GI Oncology Lab School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (United States) – 154 kWh/day saved
• Large Lab Award​: Lab + in the School of Life Sciences, Coventry University (United Kingdom) – 59 kWh/day saved

• Medium Lab Award: Histocompatibility Laboratory, University of Michigan (United States) –80 kWh/day saved

• Small Lab Award: Yau Lab, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (United States) – 114 kWh/day saved

• Biorepository Award: Cell Culture Facility (ICV-3C), The Paris Brain Institute (France) – 73 kWh/day saved

Government sector winners

• Top Organization Award:​ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama) – 159 kWh/day saved

• Winning Streak Award: National Institutes of Health (United States) – 3,074 kWh/day saved

• Large Lab Award​: Drug Safety Testing Center, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (Hong Kong) – 41 kWh/day saved

• Medium Lab Award: Central Laboratory, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (United States) – 44 kWh/day saved

• Small Lab Award: Trink und Abwasserlabor, Hamburg Water (Germany) – 25 kWh/day saved

• Biorepository Award: Center for Cancer Research, Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (United States) – 442 kWh/day saved

• Top Organization Award: Boston Children’s Hospital (United States) – 843 kWh/day saved

• Large Lab Award​: Laboratory Medicine Group, University Hospital Padova (Italy) – 131 kWh/day saved

• Medium Lab Award: Genetica Medica, Synlab Italia (Italy) – 51 kWh/day saved

• Small Lab Award: Scientific Research and Innovation Services Laboratory, Synnovis (United Kingdom) – 79 kWh/day saved

• Biorepository Award: IQVIA Biorepository, Q2 Solutions (United States) – 845 kWh/day saved

Hospital/clinical/other winners

• Top Organization Award: Boston Children’s Hospital (United States) – 843 kWh/day saved

• Large Lab Award​: Laboratory Medicine Group, University Hospital Padova (Italy) – 131 kWh/day saved

• Medium Lab Award: Genetica Medica, Synlab Italia (Italy) – 51 kWh/day saved

• Small Lab Award: Scientific Research and Innovation Services Laboratory, Synnovis (United Kingdom) – 79 kWh/day saved

• Biorepository Award: IQVIA Biorepository, Q2 Solutions (United States) – 845 kWh/day saved

Honorable mentions (organizations)

• University of Michigan
• Leiden University Medical Center
• SYNLAB Group
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• The University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Sanofi
• Labcorp
• Evotec

​Honorable mentions (labs)

• Johnson & Johnson, Oncology Spring House
• Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Hepa-Gastro
• Evotec, Hamburg, Sample Management Lab
• IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances) Madison Process R&D Lab
• Labcorp, Mechelen Biorepository
• Precision for Medicine, NHLBI
• University of British Columbia, UBC BioBank
• AstraZeneca South San Francisco (SSF) Biobank

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.