The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability is an international research center at the Technical University of Denmark. The Center aims at transforming current chemical production to a more sustainable, biobased industry and is funded by a grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation.

The Center conducts research in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to facilitate the emergence of the next generation of microbial production strains through development and application of new cutting edge technologies.

Two key objectives are

• identifying the spectrum of chemistry that can be produced biologically
• shortening the time of production strain development through intelligent design of cell factories.

Impact on society by innovation has a high priority and the Center collaborates worldwide with biotech companies and chemical industry to facilitate the dissemination and exploitation of its results.