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Tunisia White Biotechnology?
Pierre Monsan and Michel Manach attended the Scientific Committee of the Center of Biotechnology of Sfax (CBS) – Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, 2016 -, invited by its Director, Professor Mr. Sami Sayadi, in the presence of Mr. Khalil Amiri, Secretary of State for Scientific Research (Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research). The managers… Read more »
Jim Philp and Charles E. Wyman: a great honour for TWB
On the occasion of the meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of TWB and its Strategic Steering Committee, TWB invited Drs Jim Philp (OECD – Paris, France) and Charles E. Wyman (University of California – USA) to hold a conference on bioeconomy. All members of the international Scientific Advisory Board and Strategic Steering Committee had… Read more »
TWB & AURIGA Partners support company formation
TWB and AURIGA IV Bioseeds, a professional investment capital fund, are initiating a partnership to ensure a prosperous future for TWB’s research projects and the companies resulting from them. The aim is to reinforce, through the investments of the AURIGA IV Bioseeds fund, the support provided to TWB’s innovative research projects, to ensure their sustainability… Read more »
TWB strengthens its R&D Project activity
Franck Bordier joined the TWB team the 5th September 2016 as a Junior Project leader. He will work in cooperation with Olivier Galy, Chief Technical Officer. This new hire will meet the ever increasing activity linked to increasing number of precompetitive research projects, development of new collaborations with public laboratories and technical services growth on… Read more »
SuperBIO Workshops
TWB is partner of the European project “SuperBIO” that aims to create new, cross-border and cross-sectorial industrial value chains in bioeconomy. SuperBIO is a support facility for the development and implementation of innovative projects in the field of value chains, involving start-ups and SMEs. Ten innovation servives are offered to SMEs by SuperBIO experts (from proof-of-concept… Read more »
“Synthetic Biology: from ideas to market” – Dec. 6, 2016
TWB, with IAR, is a partner of the international symposium “Synthetic Biology: from ideas to market”, organized by Genopole, December 6, 2016, in Paris (France). As a major scientific advance of the past decade, synthetic biology offers a wide range of industrial applications and new production techniques. Synthetic biology was ranked second among the “top… Read more »
TWB & PILI partners for the production of dyes
PILI, company specialised in the production of renewable and ecological dyes, has started a collaboration with TWB and chosen to move into TWB’s premises in order to benefit from its structures, equipment, and skills. The aim is to reach the pilot scale of the industrial manufacturing process for a first dye. PILI plans to market… Read more »
Inauguration of TWB: a winning model
TWB inaugurated its new premises and equipment on 7 June. The exponential growth of TWB since its creation in 2012 has led to its move to new premises for the hosting of numerous projects (57 between 2012 and 2015) and recently acquired advanced equipment. Thanks to its original business model of open innovation applied to… Read more »
TWB & DEINOVE optimize Deinococcus production
DEINOVE and TWB undertake a collaborative R&D project to optimize the metabolic fluxes of Deinococcus. This partnership aims to strengthen DEINOVE’s unique expertise of Deinococcus metabolism and optimize the production of targeted compounds of interest. The project, conducted in collaboration with the MetaToul platform (LISBP, INSA Toulouse – MetaboHUB national infrastructure) headed by Prof. Jean-Charles… Read more »
EnobraQ raises funds
EnobraQ, start-up from a TWB research project, that develops CO2-based industrial fermentation processes, announces it has secured a 2.9 M€ seed financing round. Sofinnova Partners, original investor, is joined by Auriga Partners, IRDInov and CEA Investissement. Proceeds will be allocated towards EnobraQ’s research and development plan targeting an advanced proof of concept before the end… Read more »
