Scotland's dairy industry generates approximately 25,000 tonnes of salt whey annually. Together, Take Root Bio and Heriot-Watt University's International Centre for Brewing and Distilling aimed to develop a waste valorisation pathway for salt whey.

Research groups at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde are developing treatments for seed potatoes that rely on the use of bacteriocins, non-conventional protein antibiotics that show strong narrow spectrum killing activity against related bacterial species.  They have developed a discovery and testing pipeline for bacteriocins with potential for application in a potato treatment

The University of Glasgow proposed a spin-out, Casdu, to exploit this pipeline to develop, produce (or licence the production of) bacteriocin-based prophylactic treatment(s)

This successful project has advanced Ureaka’s ambitions to reduce carbon emissions of cement and concrete production while permanently storing CO2 towards commercialisation.

With support from IBioIC, Fermtech partnered with Abertay University on an industry-led project to validate and strengthen its solid-state fermentation platform and accelerate its route to market.

Polyethelene terephthalate (PET) is a thermoplastic polymer resin which is used extensively across multiple industries including food and drink, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and textiles.

Impact Solutions and the University of Edinburgh wanted to investigate the use of modern synthetic biology methods to design bacteria capable of transforming PET waste into the anti-Parkinson’s drug Levodopa (L-DOPA).

There’s limited knowledge about the potential value of marine growth on decommissioned offshore assets. CessCon Decom wanted to characterise the nutritional composition of the marine growth and assess the feasibility of extracting valuable components.

This project with NuCana and the University of St Andrews aimed to find a way to make cancer treatments safer and more efficient via a new technology to improve the bioanalysis of samples.

Innovation funding of £100k from IBioIC enabled NuCana to work with Dr Czekster at St Andrews University on a project to combine organic synthesis and biocatalysis to generate completely novel ProTide compounds with possible activity as anti-viral or anti-cancer agents.

Lignin is a material obtained from woody biomass, such as forestry waste suitable for a range of applications. Sonichem wanted to investigate the feasibility of using their natural lignin in the production of advanced, bio-based and sustainable films and resins in packaging and composite manufacturing.

Successful project to assess the feasibility of extracting platform chemicals from spent lees delivers a valuable new feedstock, a bespoke analytical tool, additional product streams and evidence to substantiate the company’s green credentials.

Successful collaboration between FlexBio and the Edinburgh Genome Foundry demonstrates potential impact for future projects.

The success of this project provides opportunities for Scottish Water and Scottish Water Horizons to circularise a process for disposing of Human sewage sludge and cleaning wastewater of phosphorus. The project will contribute to Scottish Water’s commitment to Net Zero by 2040.

The technology developed in this successful Innovation Fund project could enable Ingenza to identify additional commercial opportunities to expand their current P. pastoris biologics manufacturing platform and attract new commercial end-user partnerships.

This successful project has moved SV alginate anodes for use in Lithium-ion batteries from proof of concept to late TRL 4 . MBL now hope to deliver commercial solution to market within the next three to five years. 

This project assessed the effect of growth media formulation and time of harvest on the growth rate, biochemical composition, and digestibility of a selection of phytoplankton maintained at CCAP, and identified two strains of commercial interest.

in this project co-funded with the High Value Biorenewables Network, the team successfully developed a process to extract alkaloids from daffodil biomass which could be used in the treatment of heart failure and are now in a position to apply for investment to take the process forward at scale in Scotland.

In this successful Feasibility Project, the project partners identified antiviral therapeutics that can be extracted from cyanobacteria, and gained leverage for additional funding, training opportunities, and developed new methods for fractionating and purifying polysaccharides.

Innovation funding enabled the academic team on this project to optimise their bacteria growing process and gave BAM Ritchies an insight into new opportunities, with the project collaborators set to continue to work together beyond the project.

This Feasibliity project by Artisan Roast, University of St Andrews, and Energy Recovery Systems Ltd demonstrated that coffee grounds are a profitable replacement for wood as a source for bioenergy.

Proof of concept was achieved in this Feasibility project to improve the strength and water repellent properties of Cellucomp’s paper-based packaging materials.