MassCEC’s Catalyst Program makes three biofuels R&D grants

In Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center announced that three clean energy researchers were awarded $40,000 in grants each through MassCEC’s Catalyst Program.  Carolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons, Ph.D, of Northeastern University, received a grant to improve the economics of biodiesel production through cultivation of microalgae engineered with increased oil biosynthesis.

The MassCEC Catalyst Program funding will allow researchers to apply the combined technologies of genetic engineering and bioanalysis to increase production rates of algal biofuels.