2020 Cohort
4 year projects from October 2020 to October 2024
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Thomas Hender
Environmental enrichment culture as a route to the biosynthesis of platform chemicals for the plastics industry.
University of Strathclyde
Dr. Nicholas Tucker
Lucite
Phoenix Gater
Establishing Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as an industrial chassis for the production of high value biochemicals
University of Edinburgh
Dr. Attila Molnar
ScotBio
Nisreen Chahid
Novel Strategies to Improve Yeast as an Expression Platform
University of York
Prof. Nia Bryant
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDBK)
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Optimization of synthetic IFNA14-derivatives for the development of new immunotherapy products
University of Edinburgh
Prof. Kathryn Ball
ILC Therapeutics Ltd
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Recover, Recycle, Reengineer: A microbial and biotechnological solution to tackle the waste tyre problem
HWU
Dr. Jennifer Pratscher
Recircle
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Sustainable food formulations based on cellulose-based colloid-nematic gels.
University of Edinburgh
Dr. Tiffany Wood
MBL
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Beyond Making Thiazolines and Oxazolines: Expanding the EnzymaticRepertoire to incorporate other 5- and 6-membered heterocyclicrings in peptides
University of Aberdeen
Dr. Wael Houssen
Ingenza
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Technology development for in situ imaging of microbial cultures
University of Edinburgh
Dr. Teuta Pilizota
OGI
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Investigating the role of N-type glycosylation in protein-ligand interactions using a unique commercial microarray technology
University of Sheffield
Dr. Jagroop Pandhal
Retrogenix
Liam Forbes
Optogenetics in green cell factories
University of Glasgow
Prof. Anna Amtmann
Xanthella
Magdalena Hudek
Design of functional chitosan films: antimicrobial and heavy metal capture applications
University of Strathclyde
Dr. Paul Mulheran
CuanTec