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AFINGEN introduced the technology at 2017 Ag Innovation Showcase, UC Davis
Source: https://worldfoodcenter.ucdavis.edu/uc-davis-larta-launch-agtech-showcase The Food & Ag Innovation Showcase will feature the most promising Ag startups and research projects pursuing solutions in high value, nutritious agriculture and food from across the globe. The 2017 selected companies fall into the following categories:...
Carolyn Fritz M.B.A. and Kenneth Davenport Ph.D. join Afingen management team
Carolyn Fritz, M.B.A has over twenty years of experience in successfully building industrial biotechnology businesses. As part of the Afingen team, she advises strategy and commercialization plans to penetrate the markets and build the company. Kenneth Davenport, Ph.D. is an agricultural industry veteran, having served in leadership and executive...
AFINGEN received $100k Phase I grant from USDA NIFA SBIR FY2016 Program for Fast-growing High-yield Forage Crops Development
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers competitively awarded grants to qualified small businesses to support high-quality research related to important scientific problems and opportunities in agriculture that could lead to significant public benefits....
Ai Oikawa CEO/CSO presented AFINGEN’s technology at the Seed Central sponsored by UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center
Source: http://sbc.ucdavis.edu/Outreach_and_Public_Service/Seed_Central/ Seed Central is a public-private partnership. Its purpose is to energize the seed industry cluster surrounding UC Davis and to contribute to the economic development in the region and beyond. Seed Central facilitates communication & research collaboration between...
AFINGEN celebrates DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute: JBEI’s Elite 100/500 Club
Source: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/10/02/jbei-joins-elite-100500-club/ DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute has Filed for 100 Patents and Published 500 Scientific Papers. Companies that have licensed JBEI technologies include Lygos, which is using synthetic biology techniques to produce new chemical compounds, TeselaGen, which is...
AFINGEN collaborates with the Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit (ABPDU) through funding from DOE EERE Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO)
The ABPDU serves as a scale-up testbed for collaborators developing technologies that transform raw materials—such as plants and waste—into sustainable products that affect our everyday lives. The DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office provides co-shared funding to the ABPDU industry partners to demonstrate these technologies and systems at...