Russian Technology Platform «INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY»
for integration with 7-th Framework Programme of EC

Core Consortium

1. Lomonosov Moscow State University
2. GosGNIIgenetika
3. Bach Institute of Biochemistry of RAS
4. Centre «Bioengineering» of RAS
5. Institute of Microbiology of RAS
6. Puschino Research Centre of RAS
7. Institute of Biochemical Physics of RAS
8. Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute
9. GosNII-Sintezbelok
10. Institute of Engineering Ecology
11. I.M. Gubkin Russian State University of Petroleum and Gas
12. Institute of Plastics
13. Bioprocess Group of Companies
14. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
15. JSC «ROSALKO»
16. Association for Business Cooperation in the Advanced Complex Technologies «ASPECT»
17. JSC «Corporation Biotechnologies»

Case Projects

New Generation Industrial Enzymes

The project with a budget of $4.2 M for two years comprises 5 research teams and is headed by the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry. The goal of the project is to develop new generation of industrial biocatalysts with improved properties for the use in paper, food, textile industries and agriculture.

Bioplastics and Biobinders

The project with a budget of $4.2 M for two years comprises 15 research teams and is headed by the Bakh Institute of Biochemistry of RAS. Goal - to develop a range of biomedical devices based on biocompatible plastics, technologies for manufacturing wood composite materials employing environmental friendly biobinders and use of enzymes in polymer chemistry.

Biocatalysis for Fine Organic Synthesis

The project comprises two teams focusing on enzymes for fine organic synthesis and their application for obtaining chiral compounds. It is steered by the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology and has a budget of $0.35 M.
The research consortia organised to develop integrated national projects in the field of industrial biotechnology and comprising leading Russian research institutions are the natural potential candidates for incorporation into FP7

Priorities

Novel biomaterials

• New classes of engineered biodegradable composite materials from renewable resources
  
• Biocompatible materials for biomedical applications and healthcare
  
• Environment friendly biobinders for obtaining safe wood composite materials
  
• Production of unique materials on the base of fibrilar proteins
  
• Development of alternative approaches for production of monomers via biocatalysis and fermentation of renewable raw materials
  
• Development of technology for polylactide production from renewable materials

Novel enzymes and microorganisms

• Rational design of biocatalysts with requested properties
  
• Screening and directed evolution of enzymes with unusual specificity, pH-profile and stability
• Methods to predict enzyme’ s stereospecificity and substrate profile
  
• Extremophiles: new enzymes based on metagenomics
  
• Proteomics for optimization of metabolic pathways
  
• Bioinformatics tools to discover new enzy­mes and improve their catalytic potentialls

Biocatalytic process design

• Mathematic modeling of biocatalytic processes: from microscopic to macroscopic level
  
• Novel methods for immobilization of individual enzymes and the whole cel

Biofuels

• Bioethanol from biomass, cellulose and lignocellulose industrial and agricultural wastes
• Bioethanol from cereal feedstock
  
• Green algae as a perspective renewable source of biofuel
  
• New technologies of biofuel production based on combination of biotechnological, physico­chemical and mechanical methods of biomass treatment
  
• Development of novel enzymes for bioethanol production and technologies for their rational applications for different types of renewable raw materials
  
• Development of the process of utilization of lignin residue after saccharification of lignocellulose feedstock
  
• Erection of demonstration (pilot) plants to prove the concept and for economical evaluation of the process of fuel bioethanol production for further scaling up
  
• Improvement of biodiesel technology based on use of crude vegetable oil
  Development of module biodiesel plants
  
• Adaptation of modern technologies for utilization of biodiesel by-products

Bioremediation

• Bioremediation of contaminated groundwater, soils and aquifers, marine oil spills
  
• Methods for bioremediation of heavy metals and radionuclides
• VOC abatement from air emissions

National Technology Platform on Complex Processing of inedible renewable raw materials

In March 2008 under initiative of GC «RosTechnologii» and NO «Fuel-Energy Union» established JSC «Corporation Biotechnologies» for organization of domestic production for liquid and solid energy carriers, including the biofuel of second generation.

Organization of domestic production of liquid and solid energy carriers and other valuable products from inedible renewable raw materials includes a few interconnected tasks:

• technology development for inedible biomass bioconversion (field of «Living Systems»)
• technology development for bio conventional products separation and isolation of commercially valuable products (field of «Nano systems and Nano materials»)
  
• technology development of product conversion for generation of heat and electro energy (field «Energy and Energy Saving»)
  
• technology development for conversion of wood row materials, lignocellulose, industrial and agricultural wastes into sugar, amino acids, organic acids, alcohols, antibiotics, natural dyes, bio fuels, etc., etc.

«Corporation Biotechnologies» plans formation of modern biotechnological industrial enterprises for production of high-tech biotechnological products on the basis of former alcohol plants.

Contact Information

Russian National Contact Point on Biotechnology, Agriculture and Food

Address:
Leninsky Prospect, 33, Bld. 2,
119071 Moscow, Russia
Phone: +7 (495) 954-44-74
Fax:+7 (495) 954-27-32

E-mail:fp7-bio(at)inbi.ras.ru 

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