NSF Gives 5 Teams $32 Million For Protein Design Initiative

NSF Gives 5 Teams $32 Million For Protein Design Initiative

The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships is giving $32 billion to five teams involved in using artificial intelligence-based approaches to protein design.The goal is to speed up design of novel proteins with specific, desirable characteristics.The new funding will be for: Purdue University — Programmable Small Molecule BiosynthesisUC Santa Barbara — De Novo Design and Evolution of Enzymes for B…