The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced the establishment of a new precision fermentation center in Singapore, named the Centre for Precision Fermentation and Sustainability (PreFerS). The five-year, $14.8 million grant came from Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF). PreFerS is also supported by the University of Illinois’s Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment (iSEE) and various stakeholders who facilitated the proposal development.
