Intact Genomics Awarded NIH SBIR Phase II Grant to Develop Novel Technology for New Natural Product Discovery

Intact Genomics, Inc. announced that it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant totaling approximately $1.5 M from the National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health of the National Institute of Health. Under the 2-year grant, Intact Genomics will collaborate with two groups led by Nancy Keller and Jinwoo Bok, Professors of Mycology at University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Neil L. Kelleher,Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, to develop a robust heterologous expression system of intact fungal secondary metabolite gene clusters for natural product discovery in Aspergillus nidulans.

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