Manus Bio Matches Gifts to Stephanopoulos Award

As the world makes the transition to more bio-based chemicals, materials, and food ingredients, continued advances in metabolic engineering will be critical. Manus Bio is delighted to support the Stephanopoulos Award to highlight the importance of this work. — Christine Santos, Chief Technology Officer, Manus Bio

The Gregory N. Stephanopoulos Award for Metabolic Engineering was founded to honor the extraordinary career of Dr. Stephanopoulos and to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the translation of metabolic engineering into industrial applications. This award is given every two years at the Metabolic Engineering Conference organized by the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES).

As we prepare to present the second Stephanopoulos Award at ME 15 in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, we are pleased to share that Manus Bio generously offered to match donations to the Stephanopoulos Award fund up to $12,500. If achieved, this amount will enable the Stephanopoulos Award endowment to exist in perpetuity and ensure the recognition and support of many more generations of metabolic engineers to come.

Manus Bio is a prime example of the impact that our community can have when early-stage technologies are able to make the transition into real-world products and applications. Co-founded by Dr. Stephanopoulos and CEO Dr. Aji Parayil, Manus Bio has successfully commercialized multiple products by leveraging the fundamental principles of metabolic engineering established by Dr. Stephanopoulos more than three decades ago.

Manus Bio has multiple products on the market, including the citrus flavor BioNootkatone and a natural stevia leaf sweetener, which it produces out of its 44-acre large-scale biomanufacturing complex in Augusta, U.S. The stevia leaf sweetener is being manufactured for Manus’ partner, iconic brand NutraSweet, which sells the product on the global marketplace.

Christine Santos, Chief Technology Officer of Manus Bio, said, “As the world makes the transition to more bio-based chemicals, materials, and food ingredients, continued advances in metabolic engineering will be critical for enabling the growth of a robust bioeconomy. Manus Bio is delighted to support the Stephanopoulos Award to highlight the critical importance of this work and its direct translation into industrial applications.”

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