The University of Tennessee (UT) has received a $5 million grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to start tackling one of the world’s biggest scientific challenges.
UT’s award is part of the 2024 Global Centers competition, a nearly $82 million international funding collaboration among agencies in the US, Canada, Finland, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and the United Kingdom to establish research institutions known as Global Centers.
The newly established Global Centers will focus on advancing bioeconomy research to solve global challenges, whether by increasing crop resilience, converting plant matter or other biomass into fuel, or paving the way for biofoundries to scale up applications of biotechnology for societal benefit.