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ARZEDA Receives NSF SBIR Phase I Award |
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- Computational Enzyme Design for the Production of Renewable Value-Added Chemicals
SEATTLE, December 8, 2009 – Arzeda Corp announced that it has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) phase I grant in the amount of $149K for the computational design and experimental validation of an enzyme for the production of butadiene, an important and widely-used chemical intermediate, from plants and plant-derived materials rather than from petroleum.
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Arzeda’s groundbreaking technology integrates the power of chemical catalysis, the high selectivity of biological macromolecules, and the speed of computational design to engineer novel enzymes not available in nature.
While advances in enzyme engineering have enabled the expansion in scope and applications of enzymes in various industries, there remain many desirable chemical reactions for which no natural enzymes exist.
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