The company LanzaTech, in partnership with the Ragsdale lab and researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been awarded $4.1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (DOE ARPA-E) for a project that seeks to optimize the anaerobic conversion of CO2 and syngas into chemicals and fuels. LanzaTech received this competitive award from ARPA-E’s Energy and Carbon Optimized Synthesis for the Bioeconomy (ECOSynBio) program, which promotes the use of advanced synthetic biology tools to engineer novel biomass conversion platforms.
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Energy and Carbon Optimized Synthesis for the Bioeconomy (ECOSynBio)