SBIR/STTR Research Award
Developing a sterile, high-yield phytomining platform to bring low-carbon nickel production to the United States
Award amount
$750,304Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- ARPA-E
- Recipient company
- Verinomics, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-12-20
- Contract end date
- 2026-12-19
- UEI
- QWLJC8MK86W5
- Solicitation number
- DE-FOA-0002785
- Topic code
- DE-FOA-0002785
Research abstract
Verinomics and Metalplant are collaborating to domesticate and improve two foreign nickel hyperaccumulator species. The team will use gene editing and genomics technologies to prevent invasive behavior while enabling an increase in yield. The resulting plants will be candidates for phytomining nickel resources in the United States.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Developing a sterile, high-yield phytomining platform to bring low-carbon nickel production to the United States
- Establishing a Transgene-free Gene Editing Platform for Bioenergy Crops
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Autonomous Method to Quantify and Localize Hydrogen Facility Emissions
- Development of an Alfalfa/Biodigested Lignite/Fungal Bioleaching-based System to Enhance Phytomining of Nickel from Soil
- Autonomous Method to Quantify and Localize Hydrogen Facility Emissions
- Development of an Alfalfa/Biodigested Lignite/Fungal Bioleaching-based System to Enhance Phytomining of Nickel from Soil
Research funding history
3 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2024–2025). Reported award amounts total $1,307,173. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy