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CBiRC is transforming the chemical industry by integrating biological and chemical catalysis systems to produce biorenewable chemicals.
CBiRC will transform the chemical industry by integrating biological and chemical catalysis systems to produce biorenewable chemicals. CBiRC will also… [more]
The objective of the Industrial Collaboration and Innovation Program is to build and sustain an active collaboration between CBiRC’s academic partners… [more]
CBiRC has an extensive educational mission, including: (1) Educating pre-college teachers; (2) Educating pre-college students; (3) Providing hands-on research… [more]
CBiRC's pioneering research programs are focused on developing technologies that enable the production of biorenewable chemicals. CBiRC will achieve this… [more]
2011 CBiRC Working Meeting at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa… [more]
The Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC) is developing the tools, components and materials needed to transform carbohydrate feedstocks into bio-based chemicals. Core know-how and technologies include bioengineering of fatty acid and polyketide biochemistry in microorganisms, as well as an innovative and complimentary portfolio of developments in chemical catalysis. By combining biocatalysis and chemical catalysis CBiRC creates new know-how and powerful systems that have the potential to nurture a sustainable bio-based chemical industry. CBiRC believes the existing petrochemical supply chain can be transformed with key bio-based foundational intermediates that deliver an array of drop-in chemistry or similar functionality to existing fossil-carbon-based chemicals.

The North American Catalysis Society congratulates three of our members that have been recognized with significant American Chemical Society National Awards for 2012. The award recipients are Dr. Thomas F. Degnan Jr, ExxonMobil, Professor James A. Dumesic University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Professor Enrique Iglesia, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Degnan has been named as [...]
Obama Administration Announces $12 Million i6 Green Investment to Promote Clean Energy Innovation and Job Creation WASHINGTON - The Obama Administration recently announced the six winners of the i6 Green Challenge, an initiative to drive technology commercialization and entrepreneurship in support of a green innovation economy, increased U.S. competitiveness and new jobs. Projects in Florida, Iowa, [...]

Professor Jackie Shanks shares her research with Governor Terry Branstad – Oct. 2011 Following the groundbreaking ceremony for phase two of Iowa State University’s Biorenewables Research Complex, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds, State Representative Linda Upmeyer, Craig Lang, president of the Board of Regents and Bruce Rastetter, president pro tem of the [...]
NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals,
1140 Biorenewables Research Laboratory Building, Ames, Iowa 50011-3270, (515) 294-8354,
fax: (515) 294-1269, cbirc-info@iastate.edu
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