{"id":37532,"date":"2022-08-29T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/?p=37532"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T00:27:35","slug":"winners-of-the-2022-international-laboratory-freezer-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/the-beaker-blog\/winners-of-the-2022-international-laboratory-freezer-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the 2022 International Laboratory Freezer Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n

With over 1,200 labs from 27 countries and over 12,000 cold storage units participating, the 2022 Freezer Challenge has saved\u00a0a total of 6,732 metric tons of carbon dioxide<\/strong>! This is the equivalent of the energy consumption of\u00a0over 1,300 homes for one year<\/strong>. Since it’s launch in 2017, the International Laboratory Freezer Challenge from My Green Lab and the\u00a0International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL<\/a>) has saved a total of 24 million kWh of energy, reducing emissions by 16,796 metric tons, the equivalent of saving energy consumed by 3,268 homes for one year.<\/p>\n

Thousands of scientists made this incredible energy saving possible, with\u00a0double the number of labs engaging in the challenge in 2022 compared to last year<\/strong>.\u00a0Throughout the six-month competition, labs receive points for taking sustainable actions related to their cold storage units, including actions that promote energy efficiency, sample accessibility, and sample integrity. Winners are determined considering both the number of points earned as well as the amount of energy saved.<\/p>\n

While every participating lab is a winner for helping save an incredible amount of energy, we are proud to honor\u00a0the below labs for their significant contribution to the Freezer Challenge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u200bCongratulations to the 2022 Freezer Challenge winners!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Biotech\/Pharmaceutical Sector Winners\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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  • Top Organization Award:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/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

    \u00a0Academic Sector Winners<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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    • Top Organization Award:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>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<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\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<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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        • Top Organization Award:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>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

          Winning Streak Awards<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(<\/span>given to previous year’s winners that exceeded their energy savings from last year)<\/span><\/h4>\n
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          • Organizations:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\n
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            • AstraZeneca<\/li>\n
            • University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
            • Labs<\/strong>\n
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              • Lab+, Coventry University, UK<\/li>\n
              • Van Der Pol Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA<\/li>\n
              • The Microbial Self-Healing Research Group at the National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Honorable Mentions<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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                • Organizations:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\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<\/li>\n
                  • Labs<\/strong>\n
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                    • Sample Technologies Lab, QIAGEN, Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                      Congratulations again to all our 2022 Freezer Challenge winners!<\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n <\/sc-container>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                      With over 1,200 labs from 27 countries and over 12,000 cold storage units participating, the 2022 Freezer Challenge has saved a total of 6,732 metric tons of carbon dioxide! This is the equivalent of the energy consumption of over 1,300 homes for one year. Since it’s launch in 2017, the International Laboratory Freezer Challenge from My Green Lab and the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) has saved a total of 24 million kWh of energy, reducing emissions by 16,796 metric tons, the equivalent of saving energy consumed by 3,268 homes for one year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Winners of the 2022 International Laboratory Freezer Challenge","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"category":[24],"topics":[109,111,112],"programs":[100],"lab_types":[107,106,156,157,158],"class_list":["post-37532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","topics-energy","topics-waste","topics-water","programs-freezer-challenge","lab_types-academic","lab_types-biotech-pharma","lab_types-clinical","lab_types-contract","lab_types-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37536,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37532\/revisions\/37536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=37532"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=37532"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=37532"},{"taxonomy":"lab_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lab_types?post=37532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}