Congratulations to the winners of seed grants awarded in the 2026 competition. All teams received $50,000 in funding to explore hypotheses that may advance the QCB mission.

• Sangjin Kim & Paola Mera: How chromosome architecture governs cytoplasmic transport
• Kai Zhang & Angad Mehta: Quantitative Modeling of Mitochondrial Genome Partitioning During Fission
• Kannanganattu Prasanth & Zan Luthey-Schulten: Building a 4D Nuclear Model of MCF-10A as a Foundation for Eukaryotic Whole-Cell Modeling.
• Ido Golding & Kannanganattu Prasanth: Inferring molecular numbers and interactions from MINFLUX data
• Hyun Youk & Sangjin Kim: Nanoscale organization of RNA Polymerase II and nucleolar scaffolds in yeast spores

View the winning proposals HERE.