Research Projects

The hidden value of agrifood sector residues
A2C is EU project boosting the upcycling of agri-food wastes from fruits and vegetables and multilayer plastic films, through innovative routes of valorisation

PRIN: Progetti di ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale – Bando 2020
REconnecting PLAstics life cycle to biogeochemical cycles by sustainable hydrolysis and Yeasts fermentation

Prot. 2020SBNHLH, Costo Totale: Euro 798.701, contributo MIUR per Ricerca: Euro 660.005

Development of novel combinations of synthetic biology approaches towards production of known and novel nutraceuticals in yeast chassis

As part of the PhD course Converging Technologies for Biomolecular Systems (TeCSBi)

Find out more > TeCSBi PhD programme

Training programme in yeast biotechnology

The aim of YEASTDOC is to maximize the potential of (non)-Saccharomyces yeasts in the beverage and white biotech sectors. Funded by EU H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions

Find out more > YEASTDOC programme

Sustainable materials and processes for the production of tyres

Two PhD projects funded by CORIMAV consortium with the aim of making the materials and processes currently used in the tyre industry more sustainable, taking in consideration the whole life cycle of a tyre, from-cradle-to-grave.

Pirelli Tyres

Sustainable rubber compounds: innovation from production to biodegradation

The CORIMAV Consortium was established in 2001 through the collaboration between the University of Milano-Bicocca and Pirelli Tyres and is recognized by the European Commission as a best practice in university–industry collaboration.

NBFC

National Biodiversity Future Centre

Spoke 6 – Biodiversity and Human Wellbeing
Activity 3 – Biotechnology and Biodiversity

The mission of our activity is to promote innovative solutions to improve urban health and well-being, integrating sustainability and economic development.
We aim at designing and developing new technological processes aimed at producing materials and molecules through sustainable processes, identify new biocatalytic pathways and activities, and optimize and increase the extraction of bioactive molecules, a including from urban waste materials, enhancing them as resources for new uses.

Albini Group cofunded PhDs

Microbial bioprocesses and synthetic biology for fostering circularity in textile industry

The project is focuses both on the development of cell factories able to produce compounds of interest for the textile industry (such as natural dyes) and on the up-cycling of textile waste.

SIPCAM OXON

Biotechnological approaches to support sustainable agriculture

We aim to shift production of agro-pharmaceuticals from chemically derived molecules to greener alternatives, using biotechnology as a platform to develop more sustainable products, in particular fungi, enzymes and plant extracts.

MUSA

Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action

MUSA ecosystem is an innovation ecosystem born from the cooperation between University of Milano-Bicocca, University of Milano, Polytechnic University of Milan and Bocconi University.

Our task is to give back value to waste biomass (i.e. green kiwi peel) taking advantage of enzymatic and microbial biodiversity and further potentiating it by metabolic engineering approaches.

Indena

Synthetic biology applied to the biomanufacturing of plant natural products of pharmaceutical interest

This is an industrial project in collaboration with Indena Spa and is focused on developing innovative biotechnological processes to produce plant natural products of pharmaceutical interest using engineered yeast strains.

ASTROBIO™

Biocatalytic preparation of esters ASTROBIO™ Green Solvents

We discovered a novel promising industrial route for ester production leveraging a specific family of enzymes.

FUN CLUB

Production of functional bacterial cellulose by a circular biotechnological platform

The aim of FUN CLUB project is to develop novel BC-based functional materials for various applications by exploiting a full biotechnological platform.

DiGlycAn

From genome-guided discovery to production of novel glycopeptide antibiotics by an integrative technological platform

The main aim is to produce and characterize new glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs), natural antibacterial compounds produced by filamentous actinomycetes, which are vital in the battle against MDR Gram-positive pathogens.