A collaborative effort to boost EU synthetic biology competitiveness
The ShikiFactory100 Horizon2020 project gathers 11 partners from 7 countries: SilicoLife (Portugal), Technical University of Denmark, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal), University of Manchester (UK), University of Minho (Portugal), c-LEcta (Germany), GalChimia (Spain), NNFCC (UK), and DSM (The Netherlands).
The project will provide economically feasible and sustainable biotechnological processes as alternatives to oil-based chemistry. The global chemical industry has initiated a crucial transition from petrochemical processes to bio-based chemical processes. The ShikiFactory100 project aims toward the production of a pool of more than 100 high-value compounds from the shikimate pathway, a hub in cell metabolism, through the development of an optimized chassis and the proposal and implementation of novel biosynthetic routes for the production of known and new molecules.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 814408.
