Research Challenges
Human Health
Develop innovative engineering approaches to support the
manufacturing of cellular (stem cells) and molecular (antibodies,
plasmid-based vectors) products for gene and cell therapies and
regenerative medicine applications
Develop tools, technologies and biomaterials for modeling target
diseases (cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, immune-mediated), drug
screening and delivery (nanostructured materials, fluorescent probes)
and toxicology/pharmacological testing
Understand cell and molecular mechanisms underlying specific
degenerative diseases, microbial drug resistance and opportunistic
infections
Bioeconomy
Develop sustainable microbial production of biofuels and natural
products, carbon-based building blocks and commodities from agro-forest
residues and water resource recovery
Develop superior microbial strains, data analysis tools,
bioprocessing
technologies and materials to solve industrial bottlenecks
characteristic of biologically based manufacturing