This collaboration delivered a tenfold increase in yield for the University of St Andrews, and demonstrated how IBioIC’s facilities and expertise can provide targeted scale-up services to academic partners bridging the gap between laboratory research and preparative bioprocessing.

By partnering with IBioIC on this project, MiAlgae were able to obtain a high-value data set which allowed them to refine their downstream processing strategy and move towards full scale-up operations with confidence.

As part of their UKRI Launchpad project for Biomanufacturing in Scotland, NCIMB sought to transition their bench-scale process for producing the enzyme from static flask cultures to a controlled fermentation system suitable for larger-scale enzyme production. To enable this transition, NCIMB subcontracted the fermentation scale-up and enzyme recovery work to the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC), leveraging the FlexBIO facility and technical expertise in bioprocess development and downstream processing.