Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology

The Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB) is an international research institution for industrial biotechnology. Research facilities are located in Graz, Linz, Innsbruck, Tulln and Vienna, with additional research sites in Heidelberg, Bielefeld, Pavia, Rzeszów, Barcelona, Canterbury and Taiwan. The administrative headquarters are located in Graz.

acib GmbH, Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology
TypeGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
IndustryApplied research, R & D
Founded2010
Headquarters
Graz
,
Austria
Key people
Mathias Drexler (CEO), Bernd Nidetzky (CSO)
OwnerGraz University of Technology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, University of Graz, University of Innsbruck, Joanneum Research[1]
Number of employees
200 (March 2021)
Websitehttps://www.acib.at/

History

ACIB was founded in 2010 and is a COMET Centre (K2) in the funding program COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.[2] It was preceded by the Research Centre Applied Biocatalysis in Graz and the Austrian Center of Biopharmaceutical Technology in Vienna.[3] Owners of acib are the University of Innsbruck and the University of Graz, the Graz University of Technology, the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna and Joanneum Research. The K2 center is funded within the COMET program by the BMVIT, BMDW as well as the federal states of Styria, Vienna, Lower Austria and Tyrol. The COMET program is managed by the FFG.

Research

ACIB is developing more environmentally friendly and economic processes for the biotechnological, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. All these processes are modelled on methods and tools from nature.

Research areas include biocatalysis and chemical analytics, enzyme technologies and protein engineering, microbial biotechnology, cell line development and epigenetic, bioinformatic and simulations, bioprocess technologies as well as bioeconomy and environmental biotechnology.

Notes
  1. "ACIB GmbH". firmenabc.at. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  2. "COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies – General Information, Factsheets and Success Stories". ffg.at. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  3. "Internationale Jury empfiehlt ACIB als K2-Zentrum". idw-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-11-17.

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