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BIOSKOH’s Innovation Stepping Stones for a novel European Second Generation BioEconomy (BIOSKOH)

Date du début: 1 juin 2016, Date de fin: 31 mai 2021,

...unused crop residues (kton/year), and developing newly grown dedicated crops on marginal land (total circa 320 kton/year), as such revitalising the regional economy. Technology providers (Biochemtex, Novozymes and Lesaffre) developed, tested and demonstrated in the only available semi-industrial scale 2G biorefinery research plant (Crescentino), an innovative integrated pre-treatment, hydrolyses a ...
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MACRO CASCADE – Cascading Marine Macroalgal Biorefinery (MACRO CASCADE)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2020,

MACRO CASCADE will prove the concept of the cascading marine macroalgal biorefinery i.e. a production platform that covers the whole technological chain for processing sustainable cultivated macro-algae biomass – also known as seaweed - to highly processed value added products. The macro-algae biorefinery will be capable of processing multiple feedstocks, by deploying a range of mechanical, phy ...
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Advanced toolbox for rapid and cost-effective functional metagenomic screening - microbiology meets microfluidics. (METAFLUIDICS)

Date du début: 1 juin 2016, Date de fin: 31 mai 2020,

Metagenomes comprise enormous reservoirs coding for proteins with useful activities. Unfortunately, harvesting this reservoir is difficult, because useful candidates are rare and hidden in an overwhelming majority of irrelevant genes. Screening campaigns of metagenomic libraries thus require massive capital-expenditure for robotic systems and much manpower, making them expensive, slow and availab ...
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Protein-excipient Interactions and Protein-Protein Interactions in formulation (PIPPI)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2016, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2019,

The revolution of biotechnology has led to the creation of various types of therapeutic biologics with the potential to provide treatment for new chronic and malignant diseases. Though the potential advantages of biologics lay in their high specificity and potency combined with few side effects, their formulation still remains a large challenge to pharmaceutical scientists. This is in part due to ...
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New enzymatic oxidation/oxyfunctionalization technologies for added value bio-based products (EnzOx2)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2016, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2019,

.../engineered enzymes and optimized biotransformations), to be later validated at the pilot/flagship scale. To attain this objective the consortium includes: i) two world leaders in industrial enzymes (Novozymes) and F&F (Firmenich); ii) two chemical SMEs producing HMF and chiral APIs (AVA-Biochem and Chiracon); iii) two specialized biotechnology SMEs (JenaBios and CLEA); iv) one technology centre i ...
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Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea (INMARE)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2015, Date de fin: 31 mars 2019,

INMARE stands for “Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea”. It is a collaborative Innovation Action to streamline the pathways of discovery and industrial applications of new marine enzymes and bioactives for targeted production of fine chemicals, drugs and in environmental clean-up ...
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Engineering of new-generation protein secretion systems (ProteinFactory)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2015, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2018,

The market for recombinant proteins, including biopharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes and membrane proteins, is estimated to be about 78 billion Euro and rising. A high proportion of the target proteins are produced in bacteria, where secretion out of the cytoplasm is a favoured strategy. However, current production platforms have severe limitations and cannot handle many secreted enzymes and memb ...
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80,000 TON/Y PRECOMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL SCALE DEMONSTRATION PLANT ON SECOND GENERATION LIGNOCELLULOSIC ETHANOL (COMETHA)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2018,

The overall goal of COMETHA Project is the construction and operation of an integrated precommercial industrial facility for the production of 80,000 t/y of second generation bioethanol starting from lignocellulosic biomass (ethanol plant conversion yield: from 4.3 to 1) at Porto Marghera (VE, Italy). The plant will be the first in its kind at pre-commercial scale and will validate the innovative ...
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Ultra High-throughput platform for the selection of thermostable proteins by thermophilic in vitro transcription-translation and microfluidics (HOTDROPS)

Date du début: 1 juin 2013, Date de fin: 31 mai 2017,

"This initiative connects four companies and four academic groups in pursuit of a central biotechnological challenge: to identify and improve enzymes for application in industrial biocatalysis. The technology interchange is centered around key technologies to generate thermostabilized proteins. We will develop, share and spread the following approaches (i) folding interference assays with a therm ...
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INnovaTive Enzymes and polyionic-liquids based membRAnes as CO2 Capture Technology (INTERACT)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2013, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2017,

A major task addressed in the Strategic Energy Technology Plan of the EU is the sustainable power generation from fossil fuels. A crucial step here is the separation of CO2 from flue gas. INTERACT investigates the scientific and technological basis of radically innovative materials and processes. Strong improvement of the energy penalty of the capture process below 5 % points and reduction of the ...
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Optimized oxidoreductases for medium and large scale industrial biotransformations (INDOX)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2016,

The INDOX proposal on industrial oxidoreductases aims to provide relevant industrial case stories to demonstrate the efficacy of optimized biocatalysts on targeted reactions, and to establish the processes scalability, sustainability and cost-efficiency versus chemical conversion processes. The chemical industry (specialties excluded) is not yet embracing enzymatic oxidation reactions to a signifi ...
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A stealth attack tool for preventing clinical drug resistance through a unique self-regenerating surface (BACATTACK)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,

Outbreaks of clinical infections affect many thousands of patients in Europe yearly. The present effective treatment for infections is large doses of systemically applied drugs. There is a high risk of recurring infections and biofilm formation for patients dependent on long term in-dwelling catheters and the extended dependency on antibiotics result in clinical drug resistance. We present a new t ...
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Systematic screening for novel hydrolases from hot environments (HotZyme)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2011, Date de fin: 31 mars 2015,

There is a strong need for new thermostable hydrolases with appropriate performance and/or novel functionalities that could provide huge savings in time, money and energy for industrial processes. The HotZyme project aims to identify such enzymes from hot terrestial environments, using metagenomic screening methods. New bioinfomatic tools will be developed to facilitate function prediction of gene ...
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The development of very high performance bioderived composite materials of cellulose nanofibres and polysaccharides (NanoCelluComp)

Date du début: 1 mars 2011, Date de fin: 31 mars 2014,

The overall aim of the NanoCelluComp project is to develop a technology to utilise the high mechanical performance of cellulose nanofibres, obtained from food processing waste streams, combined with bioderived matrix materials, for the manufacture of high performance composite materials that will replace glass and carbon fibre reinforced plastics in many applications including transportation, wind ...
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EUROpean multilevel integrated BIOREFinery design for sustainable biomass processing (EuroBioRef)

Date du début: 1 mars 2010, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2014,

The development and implementation of bio-refinery processes is an absolute necessity and the key to meet the vision towards bio-based economy. The EuroBioRef concept is an integrated, sustainable and diversified bio-refinery involving all biomass value chain stakeholders. The latter will allow large-scale research, testing, optimisation and demonstration of processes in the production of a wide r ...
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Second generation BIOethanol process: demonstration scale for the step of Lignocellulosic hYdrolysis and FErmentation (BIOLYFE)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2013,

The overall goal of BIOLYFE PROJECT is to developing and demonstrating the hydrolysis and fermentation steps at industrial scale of the lignocellulosic bioethanol process, considering the entire chain (i.e. including at the same scale the up-stream and downstream process, namely innovative pre-treatment steps and product separation/utilization). BIOLYFE specifically seeks technologies which have t ...
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Bacterial Synthetic Minimal Genomes for Biotechnology (BASYNTHEC)

Date du début: 1 juin 2010, Date de fin: 31 mai 2013,

"BaSynthec will combine computational and experimental biology approaches with novel high-throughput methodologies to reduce and modify à la carte the chromosome of Bacillus subtilis, a genetically tractable bacterium and one of the key microbes used as a Cell Factory in biotechnology. Simpler B. subtilis strains with reduced energy consumption for self maintenance will be designed and constructed ...
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Optimized pre-treatment of fast growing woody and nonwoody Brazilian crops by detailed characterization of chemical changes produced in the lignin-carbohydrate matrix (LIGNODECO)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,

Biomass production costs are low in Brazil compared to other parts of the world, due to proper climate and advanced forest and agricultural technologies. The productivities of elephant grass (Pennisetum spp; 30-45 t/ha/yr bone dry) and eucalypt crops (20-30 t/ha/yr bone dry) in Brazil are amongst the world largest, with good perspectives of growing even further. Thus, Brazil presents great potenti ...
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A systems approach to defining membrane protein networks and applications (TranSys)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2008, Date de fin: 31 août 2012,

Membrane proteins are macromolecules of huge academic and biotechnological importance. They account for ~30% of genes in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, and perform a spectrum of essential cellular functions. Despite their importance, these proteins are poorly understood with respect to membrane insertion, folding and complex formation. Even less is known of the interactions between membrane p ...
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Three-dimensional nanobiostructure-based self-contained devices for biomedical application (3D-nanobiodevice)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2009, Date de fin: 30 juin 2012,

The main scientific objective of the project is to enhance the understanding of the fundamental principles for controlling electron transfer reactions between nanoparticles (NPs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), their assemblies confined into three-dimensional (3D) microscale networks, conductive nano/-microporous silicone (NMPSi) chips and different bioelements, such as glucose oxidising and oxygen redu ...
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New Antimicrobials (NAM)

Date du début: 1 juin 2008, Date de fin: 31 mai 2012,

"Antibacterial resistance is spreading globally at an alarming rate and continues to increase. New potent antibacterial agents and therapies are therefore continually needed. In recent years, new antibacterial compounds have mainly been additions to the existing classes of drugs and very few new structures have been developed. Pharmaceutical industry has little interest in developing novel structu ...
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In silico Rational Engineering of Novel Enzymes (IRENE)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2009, Date de fin: 31 mars 2012,

"IRENE project aims at overcoming existing bottlenecks for a broader diffusion of biocatalysis and at accelerating the sustainable innovation of chemical industry by developing computational methods and strategies that will enable to rationally design and produce the next generation of biocatalysts for industrial applications. The consortium is funded on the combination of robust multidisciplinary ...
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Systems Biology as a Driver for Industrial Biotechnology (SYSINBIO)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2008, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2011,

"Metabolic engineering is an applied science focusing on developing new cell factories or improving existing ones. Metabolic engineering is an enabling science, and distinguishes itself from applied genetic engineering by the use of advanced analytical tools for identification of appropriate targets for genetic modifications and the use of mathematical models to perform in silico design of optimiz ...
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Conversion of Sugar Cane Biomass into Ethanol (CaneBioFuel)

Date du début: 1 mars 2009, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2011,

The project aims at developing the first cost-effective and industrially viable process for converting sugar cane bagasse and trash (i.e. sugar cane biomass) into fermentable sugars. Furthermore, the aim is to integrate such a process with existing production of 1st Generation ethanol based on sugar cane. In order to develop such a process, a deeper knowledge about the structural components of su ...
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