acib as a
research center
In its role as an international research centre in all areas of industrial biotechnology, acib responds to pressing social issues such as the health crisis, the climate crisis, the shift from fossil energy sources to renewable resources, the preservation of ecosystems by avoiding harmful waste, and ensuring sufficient food to feed the world.
To find answers to key issues of our time, the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy is becoming increasingly important.
Therefore industrial biotechnology plays a key role in the extraction and use of biological resources to produce valuable products in the pharmaceutical, food and feed sectors or the use of bio-based chemicals, materials and bioenergy,. To meet these demands, acib is active in the following research fields:
- Biocatalysis & chemical analytics
- Enzyme technologies & protein engineering
- Microbial biotechnology
- Bioinformatics & simulations
- Bioprocess technologies
- Bioeconomy & environmental biotechnology
International research projects
Currently, acib is involved in more than 90 international research projects. As a project coordinator and partner, acib is actively involved in a wide variety of EU projects.
Services
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Carbon-carbon bonds ultimately made the emergence of life on earth possible, but they can also bring life to new reactions, ...
Glutathione (γ-L-glutamyl-L-cysteinyl-glycine) is the main endogenous, cellular, thiol-based antioxidant existing in reduced (GSH) and oxidized (GSSG) forms. In healthy cells, ...
Knowledge of key biosynthetic steps and bottlenecks is a prerequisite for effective metabolic engineering of production strains. Not only the ...
LC – MS (/MS) analysis is the method of choice for proteomics. We use high resolution mass spectrometers to identify ...
Compact advanced training for biopharma with laboratory training for employees of pharmaceutical companies without relevant biotechnology training
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Growth factors are essential components in cell culture medium for pharmacological products as well as for cultivated meat production and ...
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acib has developed a new diagnostic tool for early sepsis detection through novel biomarkers based on circulating-free nucleic acids. The ...
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Are you looking for an eco-friendly approach to improve the functionality of your product? Or do you want to integrate ...
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Every human being has not only more microbial cells than human cells but also more microbial genes than human ones... ...
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have had a huge impact on both diagnostics and treatment of diseases. However, it is still a ...
acib in cooperation with Graz University of Technology has developed a method for automatic production of bioplastics from CO2. The ...
Cell-Free or circulating-free DNAs (cfDNAs) are an incredible source of information on the health status of humans and animals. Let ...
Whenever new products for downstream-processing are available there is the question whether they are truly superior to previously used materials. ...
Whenever new products for downstream-processing are available there is the question whether they are truly superior to previously used materials. ...
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acib has a leading experience in industrial bioprocess design for enzymatic glycosylation reactions and is actively looking for new company ...
acib developed a biotechnological based technology for the recycling of waste pharmaceutical blisters. Aluminium and plastic can be recovered by ...
Wastewater-based detection of emerging diseases has been proven to be a powerful tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it’s high ...
Yeast has been both a great model organism, as well as an efficient host for protein and metabolite production. Did ...
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Vaccines and gene therapy vectors are in high de‐ mand leading to challenging timelines for delivering sufficient amounts in highest ...
acib has developed easy-to-use synthetic biology tools for the cost-efficient i) incorporation of non- natural amino acids, ii) assembly of ...
Plant-based expression systems are often over- looked, despite their unrivalled production speed, high scalability, low cost and eukaroytic protein modification ...
Peptides are remarkable biomolecules with many important and highly diverse roles. For example, they can display antimicrobial or antiviral activity, ...
You need an aldehyde as a final product or as an intermediate in your synthetic route? We have enzyme collections ...
You need an aldehyde as a final product or as an intermediate in your synthetic route? We have enzyme collections ...
Ergothioneine, which is also called the longevity vitamin, is mostly obtained from mushrooms as primary dietary source. It is a ...
The human diet contains a lot of really healthy compounds, but some are only contained in meat, fish and dairy ...
You have discovered a promising substance or developed a highly interesting compound, but they are just too expensive? No problem ...
acib is making use of cutting-edge biotechnology to develop new environmentally-friendly processes. Let’s see what we can do in the ...
From development to manufacturing: Process intensification of liquid/gas enzymatic reactions can be executed by implementing continuous manufacturing technology …
acib offers advanced biotechnological solutions for agriculture applications. Let’s see what we can do for you!
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acib offers biotechnological solutions for energy storage, energy conversion, biofuels and biogas.
You are doing great science in the field of industrial biotechnology – we make sure that the public will notice.
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Knowledge of key biosynthetic steps and bottlenecks is a prerequisite for effective metabolic engineering of production strains. Not only the ...
The textile industry is developing well, but there is fierce competition on innovative new fibers and applications and biotechnology is ...
The textile industry is developing well, but there is fierce competition on innovative new fibers and applications and biotechnology is ...
acib has developed an enzymatic method for the faster drying of paints, but the right enzymes can do much more: ...
Currently there is a wide range of more or less toxic chemicals for pest management in agriculture. However, more and ...
Squalene acts as a booster for potential vaccines against SARS-coV-2. However, the richest squalene source, shark liver, can and should ...
Vaccines have great importance for public health. In order to meet short time lines for providing sufficient amounts of vaccine ...
A key prerequisite for controlling corona virus sprea- ding is rapid testing of potentially infectious individuals. We have developed IP ...
Anti-oxidants, vitamins, flavour and fragrances can be produced and enhanced naturally using single enzymes or mirobial cell factories, developed by ...
Fungal infestation of plants, moulds on harvested food/feed or microalgae overgrown by bacteria, there are many reasons spoiling the fruits ...
Essential oils from plants contain a wide variety of fragrance molecules. These compounds are often used a mixtures, either from ...
You have finally found the perfect enzyme, the ideal biotherapeutic or just an incredible interesting protein to study, but you ...
Biotechnological
Infrastructure
Integrated in the scientific network of universities, acib provides its partners with access to state-of-the-art biotechnological infrastructure.
You can see the different large-scale and specialized equipment in our overview.
Open
Innovation
The goal of acib is to generate new ideas, products, services, or business models. To this end, acib follows the “open innovation” approach: open innovation means benefitting from ideas from inside and outside the company to create new innovations.
Science-
Communication
The comprehensible and targeted communication of research results for different stakeholders is steadily gaining in importance. Mandatory in the context of EU projects, dissemination of scientific results often contributes to the success of research projects.

Innovation Management
As an innovative incubation center, the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) supports its start-ups, spin-offs and center-based companies on their first steps towards business success. acib offers tailored services, extensive know-how and use of its broad network of industry and research partners.
- Agrobiogel GmbH
- Arkeon GmbH
- bisy e.U.
- CelHeal
- Chorus GmbH
- DirectSens GmbH
- Econutri GmbH
- Enzyan Biocatalysis GmbH
- Evercyte GmbH
- Innophore GmbH
- KS KETONUTRIENTS GmbH
- myBIOS GmbH
- Qualizyme Biotechnology GesmbH
- roombiotic GmbH
- Syconium Lactic Acid GmbH
- Lanbiotic GmbH