Development of an environmentally friendly process to produce Cortison and other drugs
A joint project with researchers around Professor Rita Bernhardt and Frank Hannemann from the Saarland University, the biotech companies OakLabs and Metabolomic Discoveries aims at developing an environmentally friendly process to produce cortisone and other drugs using the bacterium Bacillus megaterium.
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High performance computing for Life Sciences
Progress in computers and algorithms during the last years has made numerical simulation and modelling a key research methodology in both academia and industry, which in turn drives exascale computing in order to maintain excellence in research and innovation.
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Brandenburgischer Innovationsgutschein (BIG), NR. 85011377
OakLabs has started a project with the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI to significantly improve the throughput of gene expression profiling studies building the basis for cost-efficient comprehensive analysis of complex biomarker signatures for personalized medicine.
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