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A team of BC scientists, led by UBC’s Dr. Hennie van Vuuren, and investors have founded Creatus Biosciences Inc. (Creatus) to realize applications of a novel micro-organism that produces commercially valuable chemicals with applications across many industry markets.

The chemical synthesis of many compounds is often environmentally unsustainable and capital intensive, making biological production a win-win situation. The strategy of this research was to be able to produce these compounds using genetic engineering in the micro-organism discovered by the team. Creatus will patent and commercialize or license the technologie(s) once developed.