Conagen engineers live organisms to produce molecules. Conagen uses synthetic biology tools to design metabolic pathways, improve production organisms, and optimize production procedures. They focus on bio-production of high value ingredients for food, nutrition, pharmaceutical, and renewable material industries.
Conagen has successfully engineered terpenoid pathways, aromatic amino acid-related pathways, cell wall sugar monomers and polymers, proteins and peptides, and secondary metabolic pathways in bacteria, plants and fungi.
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April 2020
Conagen raises a $30,000,000 corporate funding round from Sumitomo Chemical.
June 19, 2014
Conagen was founded by Oliver Yu.
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