Hariri Junior Fellow Douglas Densmore Launches the Nona Research Foundation

Douglas Densmore, Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor at Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, launched the Nona Research Foundation about a year ago as a 510(c)3 non-profit. Nona Research Foundation, Inc. (“NRF”) aims to help research using their software and other tools achieve advances and improvement in health and healthcare, energy production and storage, materials manufacture, protection of the environment, and human welfare.  It was created to broaden participation, increase access, and advance innovation in the design, distribution, documentation, maintenance, and use of open-source software and tools in the fields of synthetic biology and bio-design automation. Examples of the specific applications anticipated in synthetic biology and related scientific fields enabled by NRF advances include producing life-saving pharmaceuticals, repairing defective genes, destroying cancer cells, generating biofuels, cleaning up the environment, and assisting climate change through carbon capture.

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