Noubar Afeyan conferred honorary doctorate degree of Yerevan State University

Noubar Afeyan, founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, co-founder of Moderna, co-founder of the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST) and co-founder of Aurora Humanitarian Initiative visited Microbial Biotechnologies and Biofuel Innovation Center at Yerevan State University (YSU). Accompanied by YSU rector Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, Afeyan toured the lab and got acquainted with the work of the biotechnology research team under the ADVANCE STEM Research Grant Program being carried out in collaboration with FAST and YSU. The research team implements its studies under the supervision of the world-famous and highly regarded microbiologist, director of the Institute of Technical Microbiology, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) professor Garabed Antranikian.