- DKK 700 million for new research centre at DTU
- Novo Nordisk Foundation donates DKK 700 million to the world's first research centre for bio-sustainability. The project is due to start up in the spring, where the centre is to develop new sustainable processes for the manufacturing of chemical products, the weekly newspaper Ingeniøren, writes. The centre's new director has been found in the U.S.
The new Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Bio-sustainability's
vision is to identify enzymatic processes in bacteria, fungi and
plants that convert raw materials into specific desired
end-products and to create new microorganisms that are able to
perform these processes in a so-called cell factory.
To head the centre, Icelander Bernhard Ørn Palsson from the
University of California, San Diego, USA has been chosen. Here, he
heads the SystemsBiology Group. In 1996, he also worked as a
visiting professor at the Danish Technical University, (DTU).
Bernhard Ørn Palsson states that he expects to attract researchers
from all over the world.
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