TU Graz Bundles Its Strengths in Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence

09-May-2024 - In a multidisciplinary research project, researchers from the biosciences, process engineering and computer science want to massively increase efficiency in the development of new enzymes and process optimization. This should even enable the breakdown of forever chemicals. Graz University of ...

1.9 million US dollars for TU Future Laboratory

TU Berlin scientist Peter Neubauer honored with Agilent Thought Leader Award for his innovative research in bioprocess engineering

14-Aug-2023 - Professor Dr. Peter Neubauer from the Technical University of Berlin will receive the Agilent Thought Leader Award. This has now been announced by the company Agilent Technologies. As head of the Department of Bioprocess Engineering, Peter Neubauer conducts research to unlock new methods for ...

The 7th BioProScale Symposium took place again as in-person event in Berlin

New ways of thinking are required: Scientists from both academia and industry presented and discussed innovative approaches and developments in biotechnology and bioprocess engineering

12-Apr-2022 - On the subject of “Scaling Up and Down of Bioprocesses: Technological Innovation and Cell Physiology Insights”,the 7thSymposium was again held on-site in Berlin from March 28 to31,2022. In parallel, there was also the possibility to follow the presentations online. The symposium was organized ...

6th BioProScale Symposium 2021 – held virtually for the first time

Online event about the scale-up and scale-down for accelerated bioprocess development and optimization

26-Apr-2021 - From the 29 to 31 March 2021 the 6thBioProScale Symposium was held virtually for the first time. It was organized by the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering at Technische Universität Berlin, the Institute for Fermentation and Biotechnology in Berlin (IfGB) as part of the Versuchs- und Lehranstalt ...

Rescue for Sardines and Anchovies: Produce DHA through biotechnology using microalgae

19-Sep-2019 - Bioprocess engineers Anja Lemoine and Stefan Junne are researching substitutes for fishmeal and fish oil in aquacultures by fermenting waste into different acids and then feeding these to microalgae. While others stockpile food, Lemoine and Junne hoard leftovers in the fridges of the Chair of ...

A sweeter way to make green products

12-Sep-2017 - The shampoo you washed your hair with this morning. The balloons for the party. Refrigerators and sunglasses, medicine and mosquito repellent, guitar strings and fishing lures. These -- and thousands of other products we use every day -- contain chemicals made from petroleum. But researchers at ...

Spray drying: Perfect dosing thanks to drug capsules

04-Sep-2017 - Instant coffee and powdered milk are produced by spray drying. Fraunhofer researchers have adapted this technique to the tricky question of incorporating insoluble substances in core-shell particles. The new method helps reduce the concentration of active ingredients in therapeutic ...

Microbial fuel cell converts methane to electricity

19-May-2017 - Transporting methane from gas wellheads to market provides multiple opportunities for this greenhouse gas to leak into the atmosphere. Now, an international team of researchers has taken the first step in converting methane directly to electricity using bacteria, in a way that could be done near ...

New procedure for producing safe and more effective vaccines

08-Nov-2016 - A consortium of four Fraunhofer Institutes (the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, and the Fraunhofer Institute for ...

A research project on myxobacteria has brought victory in the first BlueCompetition

Pharmaceutical biotechnology takes the first places in the competition

13-Feb-2012 - The international “BlueCompetition” science contest for optimizing bioprocess analysis has come to a conclusion, and it is now clear who the winning workgroups from the various universities are. In the end, the scientific jury viewed Stephan Hüttel from the Institute for Pharmaceutical ...