Biomanufacturing for Sustainability

Biomanufacturing for Sustainability and Health

Solving Critical Challenges

In state-of-art facilities and through collaborations with partners, WPI is harnessing cells, enzymes, and chemicals to build sustainable solutions for the world’s most critical challenges. Faculty and staff are developing new biomaterials, turning cells into factories, and converting waste into valuable products, all while training the next generation of biomanufacturing workers. 

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Biochemical Manufacturing

Biochemical Manufacturing 

WPI researchers are developing and refining new manufacturing processes for drugs, fuel, and other products in ways that positively impact the environment.  

Read how Professor Michael Timko is turning food waste into fuel. 

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Bio-inspired Materials

Bio-inspired Materials 

By looking to nature, WPI researchers are developing sustainable construction materials, wound dressings, and more.  

Read how Professors Suzanne Scarlata and Nima Rahbar are producing a low-cost negative-emission concrete.

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Environmental Sensors

Environmental Sensors 

New tools, models, and technologies are emerging from WPI labs to monitor environmental signals.  

Read how Assistant Professor Natalie Farny is using biology and engineering to monitor environmental contaminants.  

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Synthetic Biology

Eric Young has received four separate grants totaling more than $2 million to support his research into using yeast and fungi to take on significant genetic engineering challenges. Engineering organisms to give them new abilities is leading to breakthroughs in the production of biofuels and plastics at WPI.

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Partners and Funders

WPI faculty members collaborate with academic partners at UMass Chan Medical School and Clark University. Our faculty also work with companies such as Raytheon, Pfizer, Sanofi, AbbVie, and Saint Gobain. WPI’s research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, and other private and public funders. 

Biomanufacturing Research Facilities at WPI

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BETC

The Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center at WPI’s Gateway Park in Worcester is where biotechnology professionals gain an edge. It’s an innovative partnership between academia and industry that creates customized workforce development solutions for forward-thinking biotechnology companies across the region and around the world.  

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Faculty Experts

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