With funding from IBioIC, researchers from St Andrews and Xanthella Ltd have undertaken a feasibility project to improve the production of industrial feedstocks by microalgae under solar illumination.

IBioIC funded a joint project between Victrex and Joanna Sadler and Stephen Wallace from the University of Edinburgh to explore alternative, more sustainable routes for the production of Hydroquinine, ideally from renewable or waste feedstocks, to contribute to their goal of carbon neutrality by 2030.

IBioIC awarded over £8.5k through our Spin Out Fund to Bioenamel to produce human proteins in yeast and test them on surfaces that mimicked damaged teeth.

Marine Biopolymers (MBL) is a Scottish SME whose focus is on extracting high value components from brown seaweeds for use in a range of applications such as food and pharmaceuticals, but also in different industrial application areas, where the use of natural polymers is growing fast.

Scottish biotechnology company ScotBio has developed an environmentally-friendly way of boosting the production and stability of the natural blue pigment phycocyanin, opening the door to access new global markets.

As ENOUGH (formerly 3fBio) move mycoprotein production from their scale up facility in Glasgow to full scale production in the Netherlands, they wanted to design a suite of early diagnosis tests to determine when a batch of product is growing sub-optimally in the hope that issues can be mitigated and avoid reductions in the amount or quality of product.

ŌGI Bio Ltd wanted to explore the feasibility of utilising the University of Edinburgh’s state of the art in-line dilution technology to extend the valid range of OD measurements for their microbioreactors.

Turning low value fish waste into high value molecules using biotechnology.

Revive Eco develop green technologies to produce high value products from waste. Their initial focus is on waste coffee grounds from which they extract several high value chemicals and consumer products.

This Feasibility project sought to obtain data on whether and how the CellMaker aids the growth of mammalian cells for use in the production of medicines, therapeutics and research reagents.

Waste root vegetables could help stop microbes growing on medical implants.

Improving the process for making sustainable meat alternatives at scale.

Trialling techniques to assess the chemical properties of chitosan extracted through a novel process.

IBioIC project funding enabled The Antibody Company to develop a novel test that has the potential to substantially reduce spoilage issues for microbrewers.

Using organic waste as a nutrient source to grow fungal mycelium for use as insulation blocks for the construction industry.

New technology may help reduce carbon emissions for the agriculture and aquaculture industries.

Strathendrick Biogas Ltd have established the feasibility of an Anaerobic Digestor plant on Orkney to process local waste and deliver heat, power and gas to residents.