SciPhage (Colombia) wins the 2026 World Food Prize Foundation Innovate for Impact Challenge with its livestock phage platform (USD 65,000 first prize)

Ciencia y Tecnología de Fagos SciPhage S.A.S., a Universidad de los Andes spinout in Colombia, won first place at the World Food Prize Foundation's 2026 Innovate for Impact Challenge, pitching live at the Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines on 21 October 2026. The prize is USD 65,000 (the Foundation's four-finalist breakdown is $65,000 / $50,000 / $10,000 / $5,000; $50,000 is second place). SciPhage develops bacteriophages as an antibiotic alternative in poultry, swine, cattle and aquaculture; its lead product controls Salmonella in poultry and is patented in Colombia, the US and Brazil, and a trout product is in field validation. CeluNova (Mexico) placed second, Biotech4Life (Brazil) third and Lyrata (Canada) fourth. Selected from over 1,500 applications from 100+ countries.