Research group Industrial and Marine Biotechnology
The IMB group holds leading competence and works within the design and optimization of biotechnological processes, including an understanding of their feedstocks and products.
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Our work supports the shift to blue-green sustainable industries, and is used for the production and application of biopharmaceuticals, enzymes, ingredients, biopolymers and materials for human medicine, aquaculture, food and feed, and other sectors.
Research areas
- Microbial processes, strain and process development and modelling
- Novel biopharmaceuticals
- Enzyme production and characterization
- Microbiology
- Biomass processing, separation and new applications
- Biopolymers and biomaterials
- Fish health
- New food and feed ingredients
Research approach
We have a large industry network and use our core competence, academic collaborations and state-of-the-art infrastructure to work across entire biobased value chains for solving key industrial, environmental and societal challenges.
Infrastructure platforms and competence
- Fermentation platform with micro- to pilot-scale equipment and automated systems.
- Bioinformatics and modelling.
- Molecular biology and genomic analyses.
- Processing lab for biorefinery of macroalgae and other biomasses.
- Bioprinting platform for material fabrication, 3D cell models and tissue engineering.
Employees in the research group for Industrial and Marine Biotechnology
