What's been happening with our Projects

IBioIC’s Project team celebrated a successful year in 2020-21.

The IBioIC Projects 2020-21 highlights video was launched in August, and it’s been quite a year to distill into one short film.

Thanks to IBioIC Project funding, over £1million has been invested in biotechnology in Scotland, resulting in leverage of nearly £12million!

Projects have run the gamut of sectors, including textiles, medicines, biomanufacturing, construction, food, agriculture, and home care products, to name just a few. We've run 6 joint competitions, and created and supported 27 collaborations, involving academics from 9 Scottish universities and 18 companies.

 
 

In the past 3 months, we launched new rounds of our ever-popular Innovation Fund (closing 14 October) and Feasibility Fund programmes. We also launched a whole new funding programme specifically to support spin-out companies and a joint call with Algae UK and BBNet around biorefining marine biomass.

In this quarter, we’ve launched 2 new projects:

  • Green Bioactives with Gary Loake - Improved paclitaxel yields in a biomanufacturing platform – Innovation Fund

  • Cellucomp with Steve Fry- A novel plant enzyme for enhancing the viscosity or hydrophobicity of cellulosic materials – Feasibility Fund

And 6 have reached completion:

  • FDBK with Lynne Regan - New strategies for downstream processing of recombinant proteins – Feasibility Fund

  • Bioenamel spin out from the University of Edinburgh – Andreas Andreou and Chris French- Enamel matrix protein formulation for tooth repair – Spinout Fund

  • SEM with Jason Love - WEEE- metal recovery and biological remediation of effluents – Feasibility Fund

  • NZC2030 with Mostafa Rateb - Manufacture of Mycelium Construction Products from Waste Material – Feasibility Fund

  • Impact Solutions with Stephen Wallace - Evaluation of Fish Waste as a Novel Feedstock for the Bio-production of Adipic Acid in Escherichia coli – Feasibility Fund

  • Celtic Renewables with Annie Cheung - Evaluation of Clostridium Co-Culture Fermentations with Sustainable Feedstocks – Feasibility Fund

Want to know more? Get in touch with us via our website, or contact us at projects@ibioic.com

Valerie Evans