Project Grant DESC0022382

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Innosense Corporation a $1.92 million project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the development of efficient and cost-effective enzymatic conversion of lignocellulose feedstock to useful bioproducts. The three-year award, issued on February 22, 2021 with a completion date of April 3, 2024, will fund Innosense's work breaking down lignocellulose into bioproducts using novel enzyme...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $198,114 supports collaborative research at Michigan State University to develop a low-energy tandem process for fractionating and reversibly preserving lignocellulose using multifunctional aldehyde sulfonic acids. The research will test the hypothesis that aldehyde sulfonic acids can more effectively and selectively fractionate lignocellulose than current mineral/organic acid and aldehyde combinations under mild conditions. It aims to maximize...

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, awarded $175,000 under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to KSE, Inc. of Sunderland, Massachusetts. The award will support KSE's efforts to develop and scale an integrated process for converting lignocellulosic waste streams into 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) at high selectivity without pre-treatment of biomass compounds. Key activities include improving reactive...

This three-year, $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of California, Davis to develop a scalable and sustainable process for nano-cellulose production by leveraging the surface activity of hydrophobin bio-surfactants. The goal is to improve the rate and extent of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose for conversion into nano-cellulose and value-added fuels and chemicals. Researchers will examine how...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $130,000 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (SUNY ESF) to support collaborative research titled "LOW-ENERGY TANDEM PROCESS FOR FRACTIONATION AND REVERSIBLE PRESERVATION OF LIGNOCELLULOSE USING MULTIFUNCTIONAL ALDEHYDE SULFONIC ACIDS." The award was made under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop new techniques for fractionating and preserving lignocellulose using multifunctional...

This three-year, $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of Virginia to develop a scalable and sustainable process for nano cellulose production by leveraging the surface activity of hydrophobin biosurfactants. The goal is to improve the rate and extent of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose for conversion into nano cellulose and value-added fuels and chemicals. Researchers will examine how hydrophobins...

This two-year, $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research at the Long Beach Research Foundation to develop multi-activity proteins for improved carbohydrate deconstruction. Specifically, the Foundation will produce and test 85 engineered multi-activity proteins containing two catalytic domains each. These proteins aim to increase biomass conversion for alternative fuels and...

Integrated Lipid Biofuels LLC was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The two-year award will support the company's efforts to develop a process for converting organic waste into biopolymers by synergizing anaerobic digestion and synthetic biology techniques. The SBIR Program aims to stimulate technological innovation through the investment of federal...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services awarded a $10,000,000 Project Grant to Allotrope Cellulosic Development Company LLC in Orinda, California under the Biobased Market Development and Access Grant Program (CFDA 10.376). The grant supports the development of advanced biomanufacturing technologies, including anaerobic fermentation, yeast microbe modification, and cellulosic biorefinery facilities. The project aims to build or operate an Integrated Demonstration...

The National Science Foundation awarded The Pennsylvania State University a $629,976 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research from April 2023 through March 2026 to enhance cellulase activity through single-molecule imaging and protein engineering. Specifically, the university will use cutting-edge light microscopy techniques to better understand how cellulases work to break down cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer on earth. By...