UF Innovate | Accelerate alum Pheronym, an ag-biotech pest control company, announced it has been awarded $378,000 in National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR Phase IIB supplemental funding. This award provides additional R&D support to accelerate commercialization of Pheronym’s Phase II innovations following third-party investment commitments driven by the company’s NSF-funded breakthroughs.
The funding will enable Pheronym to scale manufacturing of its nematode pheromone platform to pilot levels and advance development of its new product, Pherocall™, designed to control plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) through improvements in soil microbiome health.
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