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About
Dr. Nancy Ho

The engine for cellulosic ethanol and green chemicals.

Mission
 

Our mission is to facilitate the use of our nation’s resources, particularly renewable cellulosic biomass, to produce clean fuels and green chemicals using safe recombinant yeast. We will accomplish this through proven advanced technologies, continued innovation, and collaborations with prominent companies in related fields.

Goals

To inaugurate cellulosic ethanol production in the US and around the world using the world’s largest untapped renewable resource.

To enable ethanol producers to produce cellulosic ethanol using locally available sources of otherwise unusable cellulosic biomass.

To further develop new yeast-based processes for the cost-effective production of cellulosic ethanol and green chemicals from cellulosic biomass.

To help to expand the US farmer-owned grain ethanol plants to co-produce cellulosic ethanol with corn ethanol.

To clean up the environment.

To diminish the US dependency upon foreign oil.