Jens Nielsen to receive award for metabolic engineering
Jens Nielsen, Biopetrolia’s co-founder and chairman of the BoD, has been named as the recipient of the inaugural Gregory N. Stephanopoulos Award for Metabolic Engineering. The award recognizes prominent scientists and engineers who have made seminal contributions to the industrial…
Biopetrolia co-Founder and CSO receives several awards for groundbreaking research
On last October, Jens Nielsen was awarded the prestigious ‘Eni Award’ by the Italian oil company Eni. Each year, Eni elects the best research projects related to energy efficiency, sustainability and environmental protection. This year, Jens Nielsen’s research on yeast metabolic engineering…
Biopetrolia CEO featured as one of Top Young Researchers Making Names for Themselves in Industry
Anastasia Krivoruchko was listed among 6 young researchers making names for themselves in the biotech industry by LABIOTECH.eu. This article features young (under 35) biotech researchers who are mostly active in entrepreneurship while still achieving surprising milestones in the academic…
Biopetrolia Co-Founder Jens Nielsen awarded the Novozymes Prize 2016
Jens Nielsen was selected to receive the prestigious Novozymes Prize for his pioneering work on systems biology and metabolic engineering of microbial cell factories. The Prize is awarded in recognition of outstanding research or technology efforts that benefit the development…
Novo Seeds awards pre-seed grant to Biopetrolia
Biopetrolia has recently been awarded a pre-Seed grant from Novo Seeds, an innovation investment interface from Novo, a company fully owned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation dedicated to investments on innovation, development and establishment on the biotech industry. The grant was…