Andrew Linz and Timothy Redpath who are both Undergraduate Biochemistry students, alongside their teammates from Universities in the USA, picked up 3rd place in the WEGE Prize 2023 and walked away with $10,000. The WEGE Prize is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign the way economies work.
Andrew and Timothy’s team – UnWasteWater – seeks to eliminate waste in the form of wastewater, circularize the pharmaceutical industry and regenerate the natural environment via carbon capture by closing the circle between the production and disposal of pharmaceutical chemicals through microbial electrosynthesis (MES). By utilizing MES, a novel method of biochemical carbon capture and utilization to synthesize chemical products, UnWasteWater aims to valorize domestic wastewater for use in organic chemical feedstocks, and ultimately protect the environment, improve human health, and regenerate nature.
Further information on the WEGE Prize and this year’s winners here.