DTU Biosustain receives a grant of 100 M€ from Novo Nordisk Foundation to create green solutions
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation (Denmark’s largest foundation) has
awarded a grant of 100 M€ to DTU Biosustain, paving the way for the development
of new sustainable consumer products and strengthening Danish biotechnology
research.
Press release: “EUR 100 million support to create
green solutions and products for the benefit of society”, 10/6/2020.
Figure 1. DTU Biosustain receives a grant of
100 M€ from Novo Nordisk Foundation to create green solutions (taken from the
press release)
The Novo Nordisk Foundation provided the
economic framework when the centre was established in 2011. The new funding
period runs from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025. Over the next five years, the
additional funding will ensure that the centre can continue its research
activities and become a world leader when it comes to gaining knowledge and
developing technologies for sustainable production of biochemicals and green
consumer products by mastering the design of cell factories.
DTU Biosustain will focus on three main areas:
sustainable chemicals, biobased products and microbial foods and feed
ingredients. Research within these areas will be an incentive to promote more
sustainable lifestyles and use biology as a tool to develop biobased products
such as medicine, foodstuff ingredients and speciality chemicals. The centre will
establish an infrastructure to be able to use big data in the design of the
next generation of cell factories (a biofoundry with the latest technological
developments within genome-scale analysis and advanced robot technologies).