{"id":136979,"date":"2024-01-17T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=136979"},"modified":"2024-01-09T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:25:48","slug":"dsu-receives-300000-grant-for-microalgae-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/dsu-receives-300000-grant-for-microalgae-research\/","title":{"rendered":"DSU receives $300,000 grant for microalgae research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Dr. Ali Parsaeimehr (left) and Dr. Gulnihal Ozbay (right) are the Principal Investigator and Co-PI, respectively, on a research grant in which they are developing microalgae for dual purposes \u2013 as a bio-energy source and for use as an alternative anti-cancer pharmaceutical. \u00a9 DSU<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently awarded two DSU researchers a three-year just under $300,000 grant for a project that could leverage the properties of microalgae toward energy and cancer treatment purposes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research is being led by Dr. Ali Parsaeimehr, Principal Investigator (PI) and DSU Postdoctoral Researcher, and Dr. Gulnihal Ozbay, Co-PI and Professor of Natural Resources and Associate Dean of Cooperative Extension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technical title of the project is \u201cA Multiple-Stage Cost Effective Smart Farming of Engineered Microalgae for Simultaneous Production of High-Value Molecules and Bioenergy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research involves 1). Converting microalgae into bio-energy\/biofuels, and 2.) Using microalgae to develop a more cost effective alternative for the production of taxol, an anti-cancer pharmaceutical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe are working to produce a bio-energy source and to express and isolate high value compounds for the pharmaceutical industry to produce taxol,\u201d Dr. Parsaeimehr<\/strong> said. He added that using microalgae to produce taxol \u201cwould reduce the cost and it would grow more bio-mass \u2013 meaning we could grow more of it in a shorter amount of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Ozbay noted that the project provides students with great research experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis project provides opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students to involve in innovative research that has strong molecular and technical requirements students can develop their skills on,\u201d Dr. Ozbay<\/strong> said. \u201cThese type of experiences and training will make our students more competitive for job market.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The research is being conducted in the Ag Annex\u2019s One Health Lab, where research is focused on three components \u2013 environmental, animal and human health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently awarded two DSU researchers a three-year just under $300,000 grant for a project that could leverage the properties of microalgae toward energy and cancer treatment purposes. The research is being led by Dr. Ali Parsaeimehr, Principal Investigator (PI) and DSU Postdoctoral Researcher, and Dr. Gulnihal Ozbay, Co-PI and Professor of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"A Multiple-Stage Cost Effective Smart Farming of Engineered Microalgae for Simultaneous Production of High-Value Molecules and\u00a0Bioenergy","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,13556,5714,12276,10477],"supplier":[13433],"class_list":["post-136979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-bioenergy","tag-biofuels","tag-biopharmaceuticals","tag-microalgae","supplier-delaware-state-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136979"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=136979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}