Illinois Arcs

The Illinois ARCS (formerly known as ADSC) is a center for research led by faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, funded by Singapore government agency, National Research Foundation (NRF). Illinois ARCS is located at the CREATE research facility in Singapore. Research at Illinois ARCS focuses on 1) breakthrough innovations in information technologies supporting interactive cyber infrastructures that are expected to have a major impact in transforming human's use of information in a data-intensive technological society; 2) advance technologies for microbial cell engineering — creating metabolic pathways in microorganisms — to convert readily available compounds like sugars into targeted, nutritional molecules including alternative proteins, healthy lipids, and vitamins.