UK announces R&D funding for biotech including biofuels
February 17, 2015
| Meghan Sapp
In the UK, Business Secretary Vince Cable has unveiled the winners of a multi-million-pound competition to bring innovative UK biotechnology projects to market.
A total of 23 projects, ranging from making biofuel from household waste to using bacteria to make the building blocks for new medicines, will share almost GBP20 million from the BBSRC-supported Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst – introduced in January 2014 to support collaboration between UK researchers and the emergent industrial biotechnology sector.
Among the winners was a project on driving down the cost of waste derived sugar by a consortium of Fiberight, CPI, Rebio Technologies, University of Leeds, Aston, Knauf, and Novozymes.
Category: Research