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"Bio-inspired processes will have a major impact on the challenges of the global society in 21st century, including those associated with environmental sustainability. The employment of biocatalysts in industrial processes is expected to boost a sustainable production of chemicals, materials and fuels from renewable resources. The scope of this proposal is to encourage and translate academic research and its outcome into a novel industrially usable platform for the sustainable production of scientifically improved biomaterials by exploiting new analytical and biotechnological technologies. Molecular Biology and enzyme technology together with NMR analytics will provide disruptive innovation and lead to the development of unique new and sustainable products. Amongst the broad spectrum of potential applications for this new biomaterial, we will successfully demonstrate the cost-efficient and industrially compatible production of this new biomaterial using novel biomanufacturing technology and its benefits in reducing the environmental and economic costs of laundry. By applying analytical NMR to the novel biomaterial, its structural conformity can be verified, serving as a technical tool to potentially accelerate design and creation of cold-cleaning HPC relevant product formulations."

Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils. For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/how-we-fund-studentships/. Training grants may be to one organisation or to a consortia of research organisations. This portal will show the lead organisation only.

Industries across a broad spectrum of sectors are now generating increasing numbers of innovative and novel compounds and products, which have the potential to bring enormous benefits to society. Many of these novel compounds will become incorporated into products that will bring continued economic growth and improve global living standards. However, the safe introduction and release of these new materials into the world requires safety assessment prior to their use. At the moment, many of the methods employed to do this were developed in the middle of the last century, and rely heavily on the use of animals. It has become increasingly clear that these methods have limitations, including their speed, scale of use, accuracy and predictivity of various outcomes and relevance to the human context. There is now a concerted global effort to develop novel non-animal methods that will more quickly and accurately predict the safety of novel compounds being produced. The work described in this project will evaluate the potential of a novel method developed in the UK using genomic technology to be used in the assessment of novel materials.