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TWB partner of ECP
TWB supports the 2nd European Chemistry Partnering (ECP) taking place in Frankfurt (Germany) on 23 February 2018. The ECP is a very productive partnering event to bring chemistry innovators together: „The best chemically focussed startup event I have attended” one participant said. In 2018 over 500 decision makers are awaited, from the chemical industry and its… Read more »
Bravo to IBISBA H2020 project!
The IBISBA 1.0 project for the biotechnology development in industry has just been selected by the European Commission under the call for tenders H2020-INFRAIA. The project is coordinated by INRA and involves TWB and LISBP with many other European partners*. The overarching aim of IBISBA 1.0 is to support and accelerate the uptake of industrial… Read more »
Great success for SYNTHACs project!
The SYNTHACs project entitled “Synthetic Biology for the Production of Value- Added Chemicals from Renewable Resources” and price-winner at the 1st call of the program of Investment of Future in 2010 under the umbrella of ANR (Research National Agency) was dedicated to a fermentation production of a chemical -non-natural- synthon termed 2, 4 dihydroxybutyric acid (2,4… Read more »
TWB partner of “Industrial Biotech” at Expoquimia
TWB supports “Industrial Biotech” at Expoquimia that is a new partnering event taking place in Barcelona (Spain) on 2-6 October 2017. Pierre Monsan is on the Advisory Committee. Held in the framework of Expoquimia, the International Chemical Event, Industrial Biotech has been conceived as a meeting point for innovative start-ups and industry players from several… Read more »
The 2017 Enzyme Engineering Award to Pierre Monsan
Pr. Pierre Monsan wins the 2017 Enzyme Engineering Award. In the names of Engineering Conferences International (ECI) and Genencor, the 2017 Award will be presented at the 24th Enzyme Engineering Conference, 24-28 September, in Toulouse, France. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of enzyme engineering, through basic or applied research in academia or… Read more »
Cosmetics industry & Biotechnology
An international symposium* on biotechnology innovation for the cosmetics industry was held in Toulouse (France) on 22 June 2017, in the framework of the European project SUPERBIO** and with the support of TWB. More than 100 international people, including 10 actors in the Occitania Region (Clariant, Deinove, EnobraQ, Lallemand, Libragen, Micropep, Pili, Proteus, Seppic, Syntivia)… Read more »
EEC XXIV in Toulouse, France!
The 24th edition of the Enzyme Engineering Conference (EEC) will take place in Toulouse, France – for the first time! – from 24 to 28 September 2017. This international congress, organised by Prof. Pierre Monsan (TWB) and Prof. Magali Remaud-Siméon (LISBP-INSA), is the main discussion forum on new scientific developments regarding enzyme technology and biocatalysis…. Read more »
Collaboration with Heurisko
Two automated devices from the Heurisko company, allowing in vivo evolution of microbial populations, are installed on the Biotransformation and culture platform of TWB. Following its integration within the TWB consortium in January 2017, Heurisko signed a contract with TWB in order to put its cutting-edge technology at the service of biotechnology R&D. Heurisko designs automated… Read more »
TWB hosts MicroPep Technologies
The start-up “MicroPep Technologies” joins Toulouse White Biotechnology to accelerate the development of biostimulants and natural herbicides. Since its creation, TWB have hosted 4 start-ups. Today, 3 start-ups share the premises with TWB: EnobraQ, PILI and MicroPep Technologies. TWB objective is to speed up the development of industrial biotechnology, by providing in particular support to… Read more »
IPM-4-CITRUS Project
The H2020 European project called IPM-4-CITRUS, for Integrated Pest Management for Citrus, was launched on 27 April 2017 at INSA Toulouse (France). TWB is partner of this project. IPM-4-Citrus aims to strengthen collaborations between academic and non-academic -industrial- partners based in 3 European Member States (France, Germany, Italy), 2 Associated Countries (Turkey and Tunisia) and… Read more »
