Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB
Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB

Research

Our services and offerings are developed in six research divisions with different thematic focuses.

Biotechnology, cell technology, viral technology, and materials technology for diagnostics, biomedicine, personal care, nutrition, and functional surfaces

 

Medical biotechnology

  • In-vitro diagnostics
    • NGS-based diagnosis of pathogens, tumor biomarkers, and resistance genes
  • Virus-based therapies and technologies
    • Viral vectors, therapeutic viruses, bacteriophages
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Biofabrication and materials development

  • Biofabrication
  • Cell- and tissue technologies
    • Cell-based assays, 3D skin models
    • Organoids and spheroids
  • Functional surfaces and materials
    • Materials, coatings
    • Purification / sterilization processes
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Focus themes

Process engineering developments, digitalization, and scale-up for energy and resource efficiency, water, and the environment

 

Greentech solutions

  • Energy efficiency and bioenergy
  • Circular economy and resource efficiency
  • Urban and rural bioeconomy concepts
  • Water management and water treatment
  • Microbial process hygiene
  • Membrane technology
  • Chemical analytics
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Smart engineering und scale-up

  • Modeling and simulation
    • Digital models and digital twins
  • Digitalization and automation
  • Design and prototyping
  • Scale-up and piloting
  • Systemic evaluation

 

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Focus themes

Industrial Bioeconomy: Development and scale-up of chemical and biotechnological processes for producing sustainable chemicals and materials from renewable resources and CO2

 

Innovative Synthesis Processes

  • Synthetic fuels
  • Power-to-X and green platform chemicals
  • Electro syntheses
  • Biobased polymers and additives
  • Future materials
  • Biotechnological conversion of C1-/C2 intermediates
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Chemical and biotech­nological processes

  • Biomass fractionation: lignocellulose, oil seeds
  • Scale-up of chemical processes
  • Industrial biotechnology
    • Bioprocess engineering
    • Bioprocess scale-up
    • Algae biotechnology
  • Downstream Processing
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Focus themes

Spotlight on: Our focus themes

Here, we present insights and overviews on our key research areas.

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