With support from the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Cong Trinh, Ph.D. is developing a scalable biomanufacturing platform that could help industries produce high-value industrial chemicals from renewable resources instead of petroleum. A professor of chemical engineering and Ferguson Faculty Fellow in the Tickle College of Engineering at UT Knoxville, Trinh is engineering programmable microbial “cell factories” that transform agricultural feedstocks into high-value chemicals. (read more)