Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and one of the largest interdisciplinary research centers in Europe. The team “Synthetic Enzyme Cascades”at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences 1: Biotechnology is led by Dörte Rother and focuses on the development of value generating processes to fine chemicals using synthetic enzyme cascades. Here, biologists, chemists and engineers combine catalysts to multi-step biotransformations, which do not occur conjunct in nature. Rational enzyme engineering, reaction optimisation and process design is used to optimally gain both, economically and ecologically efficient cascades. This aims to bridge between fundamental research and industrially relevant biocatalysis.
The Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering (www.biote.tugraz.at) is the main Austrian university institution for basic and applied research at the interface of biological sciences and process engineering. The aim is to achieve innovative solutions for efficient and accelerated process development in biotechnology using an integrated scientific-technological approach that combines modern methods of molecular and process bioengineering.
CICbiomaGUNE is a non-profit research organization created in 2006 by the Basque Government to promote scientific research and technological innovation at the highest level. CICbiomaGUNEis committed to identifying new opportunities in the field of biosciences through a pathway of excellence in research, both answering to international challenges and contributing to the development of a new biotech sector in the Basque Country. It also encourages the transfer and dissemination of results to social and business actors in many sectors.
The centre comprises 13 international research teams conducting state of the art research at the interface between the chemical, biological and physical sciences with a main emphasis on molecular scale properties and applications of biological nanostructures.
CICbiomaGUNE’s cutting-edge infrastructure includes the Molecular Imaging Facility, a reference platform in Europe in the field of molecular and functional pre-clinical imaging. In 2018 earned the accreditation “María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence”- the highest recognition of scientific excellence in Spain awarded by the Spanish State Research Agency.
The Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences (DBSV) brings together biology and biotechnology to medical sciences in a single environment with the aim to build synergies between basic and applied sciences by means of a multidisciplinary approach. This choice has allowed the achievement of good results both in terms of research and teaching. In this context, the laboratory of Cell Biology lead by Giovanni Bernardini has focused its interest in the study of the interactions of metal nanoparticles with biological systems.
nanoScale Biomagnetic SL (nB) is a technology-based SME company focused on the development and commercialization of instrumentation for magnetic heating of nanoparticles. The company was founded in 2008 as spin-off company of the Magnetic Hyperthermia Group of the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragón of the University of Zaragoza (UZ) in Spain lead by Professor Gerardo Goya, following the successful design and development of a first prototype instrument for the study of magnetic heating of nanoparticles for magnetic hyperthermia treatment (MHT), engineered by Eng. Nicolas Cassinelli. Since then, the company has developed the initial prototype instrument into a commercially available product series of AMF-application devices, the DM100 series, with the support of public and private capital. Currently, the company is worldwide leader on its market and its products are the top-shelf choice for researcher all across the globe. During the last years, nB started the exploration of the technologies not related to therapy, such as catalysis by AMF.
