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Alfred Deakin Professor Colin Barrow, Deakin University’s Chair in Biotechnology, will lead a multi-million-dollar research program in the new $270m Marine Bioproducts Cooperative Research Centre (MB-CRC).
Transforming fish skin into collagen for wound healing, food or cosmetics, or harvesting omega-3 from micro-algae for food supplements, fish food and pharmaceutical products are just some of the expected applications of a major Deakin research program that aims to seed new advanced manufacturing industries and help transform Australia’s emerging marine bioproducts sector into a sustainable and globally competitive industry.
Alfred Deakin Professor Colin Barrow, from Deakin’s Faculty of Science, Engineering and the Built Environment, will lead the Innovative Bioprocessing Technologies research program – one of three research programs in the Marine Bioproducts Cooperative Research Centre (MB-CRC) recently announced by the Minister for Industry, Science and Technolog
The project consortium, which consists of 68 Australian and international partners, is being led by Prof Wei Zhang from Flinders University and includes researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES).
ACES researchers will provide bioengineering and biomaterials expertise for the Marine Bioproducts Cooperative Research Centre (MB-CRC), bringing together the excellence of fabrication skills at the University of Wollongong with the growing research and industry activity in marine bioresources. The MB-CRC includes research, industry and government partners working collaboratively to expand existing enterprises and drive new, high-value products, commercial technologies and employment opportunities around Australia to meet rapidly growing demand for certified, safe and sustainable products.
Funding to fast-track the growth of Australia’s next generation of marine bioproducts industries.
A team of researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterial Science (ACES) based at the University of Wollongong (UOW), in conjunction with a consortium of 68 Australian and international partners, has been awarded $59 Million in funding in the latest round of grants from the Federal Government’s Cooperative Research Centres program.
The funding will fast-track the growth of Australia’s next generation of marine bioproducts industries and, ACES researchers will provide bioengineering and biomaterials expertise for the Marine Bioproducts Cooperative Research Centre (MB-CRC), bringing together the excellence of fabrication skills at UOW with the growing research and industry activity in marine bioresources.