Washington State University will receive a $2 million federal grant to develop algae-based biofuels in a collaboration with a couple of Seattle-based startup companies. The grant, secured with help of Washington Sen. Patty Murray, will support what’s called the Washington State Algae Alliance, a partnership of WSU, Seattle-based Targeted Growth, and Seattle’s Inventure Chemical.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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