Student Team: Carson Billingsly, BioEngineer – MEng 2024, Kevin Cahya, BioEngineer – MEng 2024, Ryan Granché, Masters of Translational Medicine – 2024, Audrey Hermann, Master of Business Innovation, 2024, Ivan Jayapurna, Applied Science & Technology, PhD 2024, Kavisha Shroff, BioEngineer – MEng 2024
Novel Bio Production Methods of 4-vinylphenol
Researchers at Berkeley Lab led by Alberto Rodriguez developed a method to produce the bioplastics precursor 4-vinylphenol (4VP) from corn stover lignin using recombinant bacteria. This technology represents an important advance that could drive down the costs and improve the sustainability of producing bioplastics and other biobased chemicals.
Students from the Deep tech Innovation Lab compared the value opportunity against the likelihood of success across nearly a dozen markets. The students interviewed 20 experts and identified several non-intuitive paths toward new research initiatives and commercialization opportunities for the technology.
Thank you for teaching us the intellectual property analysis and business development frameworks in our experiential class. In addition to broadening my technical bioengineering expertise, it has been so valuable to learn strategies to assess commercialization and market adoption for cutting-edge research and breakthroughs in synthetic biology.