Bioprocessing forms the backbone of translating discoveries of life sciences into useful industrial product. The most renowned growth drivers in the global bioprocess technology market are the significant expansion in the biopharmaceutical industry, increasing thrust on research and development, higher demand for vaccine, and progress in the field of technology. Innovation in new techniques will lead to bio-manufacturing industries for a better circular bio economy. 

Enzyme technology is one of the corner stones of Industrial Biotechnology. Rapid technological developments are now stimulating the chemistry and pharma industries to embrace enzyme technology, a trend. Microbial biotechnology is defined as any empirical application that uses microbiological systems, microbial organisms or their derivatives, to manufacture or modify products or processes for specific uses.  The development of rapid and affordable genomics technologies and accompanying bioinformatics tools, and of high resolution analytical and imaging instruments, has provided new impulses to the field and opened new avenues of application, one of which is micro-biome engineering.

Industrial Biotechnology uses enzymes to make bio-based products like chemicals, ingredients, detergents, materials and biofuels. Since that time, industrial biotechnology has produced enzymes for use in our daily lives and for the manufacturing sector.

Bio-catalysis can be explained as the use of natural products like one or more enzymes or cells to speed up (or catalyse) chemical reactions. The success of bio-catalysis depends on protein engineering, enzyme immobilization. Immobilization can play an important role in the adoption of bio-catalytic processes. By switching to bio-catalysis as the main technology for chemical production, it will lead to green processing, reduces pollution and cost, and help towards bio-economy. Bio-catalysis will help in increasing the ability to use enzymes to catalyse chemical reactions in industrial biotechnology.

Biomaterials play an important role in medicine industry including heart valves, stents, and grafts; artificial joints, ligaments, and tendons; hearing loss implants; dental implants; and devices that stimulate nerves. The recent advances of biomaterials combine medicine, biology, physics, and chemistry, and more recent fields are from tissue engineering and materials science. Biomaterials found their application in various fields like in dental applications, surgery, and drug delivery.

Bioenergy and Bio-renewables offers a solution for the production of renewable energy from biodegradable sources, such as wastes from municipal, food, agricultural and biomass.  Bioenergy Research fills a void in the rapidly growing area of feedstock biology research related to biomass, biofuels, and bioenergy. There are three main categories of bio-renewable resources: food, bio-products, and bioenergy. The use of biomass energy can minimize our greenhouse gas emission, it’s feed stocks can also help in making profits for the agricultural industry.

The design of the bioreactor plays a major role in the functioning of the bioprocess and upstream processing. The simple design makes it possible to control the degree of shear uniformly within a reactor (critical to cell growth). For commercializing the product scale up of the bioreactor is very important. The success of the process hinges, to a limit, on ensuring the designing aspects in bioreactor and the operational procedures.

Bio-plastics can help reduce reliance on fossil fuels, support sustainability in the industry and allow manufacturers to diversify feedstock. Biopolymers however are the distinctive classification of the group of materials under which bio-plastics are also included. Plastics are replaced with bio-plastics, since they pollute our environment, pose a danger to wildlife and they do not degrade quickly. But new research finds bio-plastics are just as toxic as ordinary plastics. Bio-based and biodegradable plastic is no safer than other plastic. This session deals with the latest works and news about the bio-plastics.

 Synthetic biology researchers and companies around the world are harnessing the power of nature to solve problems in medicine, manufacturing and agriculture. It is the basis for the discovery and design of biological catalysts for industrial application. A unique ethical concern about synthetic biology is that it may result in the creation of entities which fall somewhere between living things and machines.

Here by regenerative medicines mean the bioprocess engineering area of stem cell tissue engineering including scale-up and scale-down. In the “whole bioprocessing” aspect the complete process starting from donor or patient biopsy all the way through by clinical insertion to the patients.

Bioprocessing for Regenerative Medicine is an entirely new field, which can only be partially compared with that of mass production of molecular medicines. Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering are one of the fastest growing areas of research in medical industries.

The agri-food industry has a significant role to play in food system, the motive of which is to feed populations, mostly through a chain of market relationships. The food system within the agri-food industry varies by country. Techniques like genetic engineering, molecular markers, molecular diagnostics, vaccines, and tissue culture, are utilized by agricultural science to alter the genes in living organisms including plants, animals, and microorganisms.

Marine Biotechnology or blue biotechnology securing industrial products and processes by synthesizing proteins and enzymes and can also support new process innovation in the pharmaceutical and food industries or in molecular biology and diagnostic kits. Marine biotechnology may include techniques such as bioprocessing, bio-harvesting, bio-prospecting, bioremediation, using bioreactors. The new applications of marine derived enzymes are found to be in the beauty industry and use of algae and micro algae in biofuel production.

Cell & Gene Therapy Bioprocessing & Commercialization optimize the process, manufacturing capabilities and analytical strategies, accelerate preclinical studies and push products into the clinic with case studies from leading companies. They develop successful clinical strategies and regulatory intelligence for efficient development with benchmarking opportunities, and much more.

Algae are the ‘green gold’ of the future bio-economy as they became a valuable and sustainable feedstock for numerous industries contributing to the bio-sustainability. Their application varies from biofuels, food additives, animal feed, novel food, bio-plastics, cosmetics, bio-fertilizers or CO2 utilization and many more. The market is rapidly expanding, and it is still not reached its full potential. Scientists are working on new technologies and cost optimization to scale up pilot projects to industrial production for a better green and clean future.

A treatment management system that uses natural organisms to remove or neutralize pollutants and covert into less toxic or non-toxic substances called bioremediation. For a successful and effective bioremediation, the system needs a correct balance of the favourable temperature and nutrient content. It is a cost-effective method when compared to other clean up techniques, as it does not need a great deal of equipment or labour.

The industrialization of biology offers far-reaching benefits at both the global and the national scale. Today, the focus is to improve efficacy and robustness of microbial cell factories, suitable for industrial production of products in health industry and others. Strain engineering is to be done to improve the existing either by mutagenesis or advanced targeted methods. If Industrial Biotechnology is used to its full potential, it would be the best tool towards a sustainable bio-economy.

The circular economy is a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible. It avails gradually decoupling economic activity from the consumption of finite resources and designing waste out of the system. Bio-economy is a understanding mechanism and processes at the genetic and molecular levels and applying this understanding towards the global sustainability.