Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology

The Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB) is an international research institution for industrial biotechnology. Research facilities are located in Graz, Linz, Innsbruck, Tulln and Vienna, with additional research sites in Heidelberg, Bielefeld, Pavia, Rzeszów, Barcelona, Canterbury and Taiwan. The administrative headquarters are located in Graz.

ACIB GmbH, Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib)
TypeGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
IndustryApplied research, R & D
Founded2010
Headquarters
Graz
,
Austria
Key people
Mathias Drexler (CEO)
OwnerGraz University of Technology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, University of Graz, University of Innsbruck, Joanneum Research[1]
Number of employees
250 (July 2020)
Websitehttps://www.acib.at/

History

ACIB was founded in 2010 and is a COMET Centre (K2) in the funding program COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.[2] It was preceded by the Research Centre Applied Biocatalysis in Graz and the Austrian Center of Biopharmaceutical Technology in Vienna.[3]

Research

ACIB conducts research in all fields of industrial biotechnology aiming at environmentally friendly and economic processes for the biotechnological, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Research areas include biotransformation for synthesis, biotechnological material processing, recombinant protein production, metabolic modelling and engineering, modelling of cellular systems and systems biology, enzyme and protein engineering, bioprospecting, continuous integrated manufacturing as well as new materials for bioprocessing and new processes for biopharmaceuticals. Another focus is on the genome information databases for CHO and cell line engineering. The center was largely involved in the DNA sequencing of the genome of the Chinese hamster.[4]

Notes
  1. "ACIB GmbH". firmenabc.at. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  2. "COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies – General Information, Factsheets and Success Stories". ffg.at. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  3. "Internationale Jury empfiehlt ACIB als K2-Zentrum". idw-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  4. "Chinese hamster genome sequenced from sorted chromosomes". nature.com. Retrieved 2020-11-17.

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