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Organophosphate Degrading Enzymes

Award Information
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Branch: N/A
Contract: EP-D-09-013
Agency Tracking Number: EP-D-09-013
Amount: $70,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2009
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
PO Box 80010
Austin, TX 78708
United States
DUNS: 022552900
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Joel Tabb
 Principal Scientist
 (607) 272-0002
 jtabb@agavebio.com
Business Contact
 Noe Salazar
Title: President
Phone: (512) 656-6200
Email: nsalazar@agavebio.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Agve BioSystems in collaboration with Carl A. Batt propose to develop decon-nanoparticles which will leverage ongoing opportunities in enzyme engineering and the fabrication of functionalized magnetic nanoparticles. Enhanced performance will be engineered into the system to improve the catalytic degradation of chemical agents. Through an iterative process optimizing the particles and the enzyme we will be incrementally improve the overall system. Coupled to this effort will be a parallel effort to develop high production levels of the enzyme to insure that the ultimate decontamination process is not only effective by economically feasible. The system that we will develop will also have application for the degradation of a number of organophosphates including those used as pesticide.he use of enzymes for bioremediation has been the focus of intense academic and commercial interest for over twenty years. Biological systems provide an attractive route to remediation of different sites contaminated by a variety of accidental and/or deliberate chemical agents. National expenditures in the early 1990¿s for environmental clean up was well over $100 billion and these costs have increased exponentially since then. If effective catalysts can be found and means to deliver them to the site of the contamination effectively developed there is a huge opportunity for this market. Overseas markets will also expend at the global demand for green processes and the recovery of contaminated areas continues.

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