BIO’s Brent Erickson Appointed to Energy Biosciences Institute Advisory Committee

BIO press release
March 30, 2009 11:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brent Erickson, executive vice president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) Industrial and Environmental Section, has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Committee to the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI).

The Energy Biosciences Institute (www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org), a collaboration between the University of California Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of Illinois, and BP, was established in 2007 with a 10-year, $500-million grant from BP. The mission of the institute is to harness advanced knowledge in biology, the physical sciences, engineering, and environmental and social sciences to devise viable solutions to global energy challenges and reduce the impact of fossil fuels to global warming. The EBI currently supports approximately 50 research projects, involving 120 faculty as well as 200 students and post-doctoral candidates.

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