Novel bio-based polymer: Young Academics Award for Scientist of TU Braunschweig
Stefanie Kind, graduated in biology, received the award for systems wide metabolic engineering of the soil bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum into a tailor-made cell factory for production of diaminopentane as building block for the innovative bio-polyamide PA5.10. The “2010 Young Metabolic Engineer Award” recognizes her research, supervised by Prof. Dr. Christoph Wittmann, as groundbreaking model project towards a bio-based economy for the production of chemicals, materials and fuels.
Her work is part of a joint collaboration of the Institute of Biochemical Engineering with an industrial consortium including BASF SE, Daimler AG, Fischerwerke GmbH and Robert-Bosch GmbH. The project supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the initiative BioIndustry21. Stefanie Kind is further sponsored by the Max-Buchner Foundation of the German Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (DECHEMA)
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