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Collaborative Research: ACED: Accelerating Protein Engineering with Evolution-Guided Gener — NSF Award to University of Illinois a

Proteins play a central role in many processes essential to life and have wide-ranging applications in medicine, energy, agriculture, and biotechnology. However, natural proteins are often not ideal for these practical uses. Protein engineering, a field that aims to design proteins with improved or novel functions, has

Award titleCollaborative Research: ACED: Accelerating Protein Engineering with Evolution-Guided Gener
Award ID2435755
AwardeeUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CityURBANA
StateIL
Amount obligated$166,668
Principal investigatorHuimin Zhao
ProgramCross-BIO Activities, ACED-Accl Comp Enabled Sci Dis
Start date07/01/2025
AbstractProteins play a central role in many processes essential to life and have wide-ranging applications in medicine, energy, agriculture, and biotechnology. However, natural proteins are often not ideal for these practical uses. Protein engineering, a field that aims to design proteins with improved or novel functions, has transformed industries by creating tailored proteins. While traditional approaches, such as the Nobel Prize-recognized directed evolution method, have been remarkably successful i
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