Successful industry placement resulted in student being offered a permanent position.
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The Antibody Company (TAC) has expertise in point of care diagnostics for the aquaculture and brewing industries, which both suffer significant product losses. Current diagnostics for these industries are prohibitively expensive and take too long allow immediate mitigation. TAC combined their expertise in antibody design and production with Dr. Mulheran and his team’s skills in antibody conjugation to design a cheap and effective lateral flow device (LFD).
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IBiolC Feasibility funding enabled CuanTec to access the analytical capabilities of the University of the Highlands and Islands to accurately determine the presence of allergens in CuanTec’s purified chitosan.
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In this project funded by our Spin Out support programme, XGenix developed a high throughput assay to rapidly screen enzymes.
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In this Feasibility project, CuanTec Limited and James Hutton Institute teamed up to analyse the value of side streams from crustacea shells.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fatty acids are traditionally obtained by extracting oils from plant, fish, or animal tissues, however, the composition in these sources generally depends on the season and location. There is a requirement to find alternative sources to meet the growing demand across the food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetic industries.
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A feasibility study which offers the potential to improve the production of therapeutic proteins through the development of a purification platform which includes an affinity chromatography step that has been specifically designed for use with a novel set of protein tags.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Owners of food waste AD plants are looking for alternative ways to valorise waste that contains both plastic and biobased substances. Carbogenics wanted to investigate whether fermentation from screening waste was possible and test a scaled-up version of their process for making biomethane from waste using bacteria.
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Using bacteria to clean waste water and recover metal ions.
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Turning low value fish waste into high value molecules using biotechnology.
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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.
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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.
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