Professor Cong Trinh has received a Chancellor’s Innovation Fund award for projects involving the biomanufacturing of natural butyl acetate.

Grad student David Dooley is a recipient of the 2025–2026 Yates Dissertation Fellowship, being recognized as one of the most promising professional students.

Chemical engineering major Hannah Boyd left the pre-med track behind. Now she’s tackling antibiotic-resistant infections from a new angle in Cong Trinh’s lab.

Last spring, Cong Trinh took a sabbatical to hone his skills using CRISPR-Cas genome editing to create modular microbes that generate high-value products.

Professor Trinh has helped develop a yeast strain that can upcycle polyolefin plastic, a major pollutant, into useful biochemicals and biodegradable plastics.

UT Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Cong Trinh is part of an ORNL-led biofuel center that received renewed funding.

Cong Trinh and his research team elucidate and control proteome reallocation in living cells to enable the selective de novo […]

Cong Trinh and his research team developed the Gene Co-Expression Connectivity (GeCCo) method to predict gene targets underlying high ionic […]

Senior Khanh Ha was selected for the Advanced Undergraduate Research Activity (AURA) program, which promotes research for undergraduate students at UT.

Ferguson Faculty Fellow Cong Trinh was awarded $1.1 million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science for research aimed at producing the next generation of biofuels.