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The Danish Company Betting That Microbes Can Do What Chemistry Can't

Novozymes and Chr. Hansen spent a century turning bacteria and enzymes into industrial ingredients. In 2024 they became one company - and quietly one of the biggest biotech businesses you have never heard of.

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Legend

Scientist · Engineer · Founder

Lee Lynd

Lee Rybeck Lynd is a biochemical engineer and microbiologist who has spent four decades figuring out how to make plants pay for themselves as fuel. He is the Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth, co-founder and CTO of Terragia Biofuel, and the scientist most associated with consolidated bioprocessing, the one-pot fermentation idea that uses heat-loving bacteria like Clostridium thermocellum to chew through crop residue and spit out ethanol.

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