San diego research Institutes, Biotechs to collaborate on Algae Biofuel
leaders of the region’s scientific, academic, biotechnology and political communities announced that they were forming the San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology, or SD-CAB, to capitalize on this expertise.
Ponds circulated water filled with growing algae at a research facility in the Imperial Valley. (Jim Demattia)
Working together, the groups hope to attract much-needed money from federal and state governments to foster commercialization of algal fuel and other products.
“We already have a collaborative community of scientists and entrepreneurs that gave rise to a thriving biotechnology cluster in San Diego,” said Marye Anne Fox, chancellor of the University of California San Diego. “Now we want to focus on building a segment of that community to create biofuel and other products out of algae.”
The center, which will be virtual and not require a building, should help attract grants and other resources to the region, Fox said.
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