Industrial Bean: Enhancing Cheap and Abundant Protein Produced By Soybeans
Engineering New Approaches To Produce Tomorrow's Products
About Industrial Bean- The Future Of Soybean Protein
Our Mission
At Industrial Bean- The Future Of Soybean Protein, our mission is to provide innovative solutions to enhance food and feed sustainability. We develop new approaches to reduce allergens, increase seed protein, and to produce novel proteins including food, industrial enzymes, and biopharma products using soybeans as bioreactors. Our mission is to provide a roadmap to produce new products and collaborate with other biotechnology entities. To accomplish this goal we use genomics and genetics to target opportunities to enhance the quality and quantity of seed protein and to produce novel products.
Our Team
Eliot M Herman, Ph.D has worked in soybean biotechnology as a Research Scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture, as a Member of the Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center in St. Louis MO, and as a Professor at the University of Arizona. He has served as a Program Director and Grant Panel Member with NSF, NIH, DOE, USAID, NIST, US-Israel BARD, and NSERT in Canada and on assignments for the US Department of Agriculture or National Science Foundation in Japan, Israel, and Sweden. Dr. Herman's prior research has focused at enhancing seed protein content and to develop new soybean varieties that have altered composition to enhance nutrition and to eliminate bioactive proteins such as food allergens. Other past projects have used soybean's capacity to produce proteins as a bioreactor to deliver medical or physiologically active proteins in a food delivery system such as soy milk. Dr. Herman was awarded the Plow Award by the US Secretary of Agriculture for his work on soybean allergen. Dr. Herman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Our Services
Industrial Bean is an intellectual property and invention endeavor to design food and feed-stocks to enhance food sustainability and to broaden the application of soybean protein in food, feed and as an industrial scale bioreactor to produce protein biologics. We collaborate to design novel approaches to increase and alter the abundance of soybean protein content and composition. We develop approaches by combining approaches using natural genetic variation soybean, combined with genomics, and genetic engineering approaches.