Terms and Conditions
In order to be eligible to win the grant of the free spatial biology grant, applicants must be located in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan or Macau, and enrolled at an academic institution or employed at a research facility in a capacity in which they are able to perform research on and have capabilities to collect samples as well as run their project as described in the submitted abstract. NanoString Technologies, Inc. is the sponsor of the spatial biology research grant contest. No purchase is necessary to enter. The grant winner must be age 18 or older. Licensed physicians, as well as members of the immediate families of NanoString employees and directors, and persons living in the same household as such persons, are ineligible for this grant. This grant contest is void where prohibited or otherwise restricted by law. The grant winner or its applicable institution is responsible for any tax liability incurred by accepting the reagents. Grant applicants acknowledge that the reagents can only be run on NanoString instruments. NanoString does not provide an nCounter or GeoMx DSP system in connection with the grant, but will offer assistance to the winner in accessing instruments in the region. All grant submissions are confidential to the individual submitter and will not be published or distributed. Each winner agrees that NanoString shall have the right to use anonymized data from the winner’s project in application notes or marketing literature. By applying for the grant, each applicant agrees to these terms and conditions and that NanoString may process the personal data he or she provides in accordance with NanoString’s privacy policies available at www.nanostring.com/privacy. This is not a “cash in hand” grant and the grant winner has no option to receive any cash payment or alternative award in lieu of gene expression panel. These terms and conditions and any action related to this grant contest are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Additional local rules may apply. if any approval and/or consent for sample collection and research is required in the jurisdiction where the researchers based, they should be responsible to obtain such approval and/or consent.