{"id":163495,"date":"2025-05-27T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=163495"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:42:41","slug":"15m-gift-to-help-abpdu-advance-us-biomanufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/15m-gift-to-help-abpdu-advance-us-biomanufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.5M Gift to Help ABPDU Advance U.S. Biomanufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) \u00a9 Berkeley Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Since 2011, the\u00a0Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit<\/a>\u00a0(ABPDU) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has helped over 90 companies scale up innovative biotechnologies, advancing them from the lab to commercial relevance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the ABPDU will be enhancing its efforts to rapidly bring biomanufacturing processes to scale, thanks to a $1.5 million gift to the Berkeley Lab Foundation through the support of philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology<\/a> recommended increasing support for U.S. Department of Energy-funded biomanufacturing scale-up facilities, as outlined in the commission\u2019s recent \u201cCharting the Future of Biotechnology\u201d report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and a team of biomanufacturing experts, the ABPDU is already playing a key role in advancing U.S. leadership in biotechnology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several ABPDU research projects focus on the \u201cscience of scale-up\u201d<\/a> \u2014 fundamental research that can help achieve a shift in how we manufacture chemicals and fuels, making domestic manufacturing and supply chains more feasible. Recently, ABPDU researchers developed a new quantum sensing technique<\/a> for potential use in self-driving bioreactors<\/a>, which could significantly expedite biomanufacturing research.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWith this gift, we will be able to acquire new equipment and develop novel capabilities that will enable us in taking on critical science of scale-up questions. These advancements will help make biomanufacturing scale-up cheaper, faster, and more predictable,\u201d said\u00a0Deepti Tanjore<\/a>, Director of ABPDU<\/strong>. \u201cBiomanufacturing has the potential to revive manufacturing within the U.S. and secure our supply chains. We are very grateful to our donors for recognizing the value of our research at the ABPDU and supporting us in realizing domestic biomanufacturing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBiotechnology is quickly becoming a key theater for geopolitical competition. To protect U.S. leadership in this arena, it is essential to support American innovators in getting their products to market, and the ABPDU is working to make that process more accessible, affordable, and scalable,\u201d said Eric Schmidt<\/strong>. \u201cTheir efforts are critical for the growth of the American biomanufacturing ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Berkeley Lab Foundation<\/a> received the gift and will direct the funds to ABPDU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since 2011, the\u00a0Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit\u00a0(ABPDU) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has helped over 90 companies scale up innovative biotechnologies, advancing them from the lab to commercial relevance. Now, the ABPDU will be enhancing its efforts to rapidly bring biomanufacturing processes to scale, thanks to a $1.5 million gift to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":163556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"The support from philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt will allow ABPDU to further its research on the science of scale-up","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[17299,5796,10416,16171],"supplier":[2869,2440,11236],"class_list":["post-163495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biomanufacturing","tag-biotechnology","tag-circulareconomy","tag-fermentation","supplier-joint-bioenergy-institute-jbei","supplier-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory","supplier-u-s-department-of-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163495","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=163495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163495"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=163495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}