In Iowa, Sundeep Vani has joined Iowa State University to serve in the newly created role of chief technology officer (CTO) for biobased products, part of the State of Iowa’s Biosciences-based economic growth initiative.
In his role as CTO, Vani will serve as a conduit between research and industry. He will work closely with both the Biobased Product platform lead at Iowa State, Brent Shanks, his team and the Iowa Innovation Corp. CEO and staff to help identify promising emerging technologies and facilitate their development into commercial products.
The addition of Vani to the Biobased Products development team at Iowa State was made possible, in part, by the $825,000 in fiscal year 2020 funding the university received from the State Legislature in July 2019.
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