Tecnológico de Monterrey and the Boston-based Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard have signed a partnership that seeks to enhance health research.

The distritotec initiative has received an Award of Distinction for urban transformation in the “Public-Private Collaboration” category from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and UN-Habitat.

There were four award categories in the call: Most Impactful, Most Collaborative, Most Innovative, and Most Potential.

The award is given in three categories: Humanistic Business Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship, and Student Social Innovation.

Biotechnology Engineering students from the Monterrey campus will compete at iGEM, a global synthetic biology competition to be held in Paris