News and Events
MIB receives Queen’s Anniversary Prize at Buckingham Palace ceremony
The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) has collected a prestigious award at a special ceremony held at Buckingham Palace today (Thursday, 20 February).Staff and students from The University of Manchester attended the event in London, where they were presented...
SynbiCITE 4–day MBA ‘More Business Acumen’ Building a Synthetic Biology Business from Scratch
The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology will be hosting the SynbiCITE 4-day ‘More Business Acumen’ course “Building a Synthetic Biology-rich Biotech Business from Scratch” 2 – 5th March. This is a highly regarded course that develops the entrepreneurship skills of...
Queen’s Anniversary Prize awarded to Manchester Institute of Biotechnology for environmental research
MIB has been awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize in recognition of its sustained and outstanding work in the area of Industrial Biotechnology. The Prize is the highest national honour awarded in UK further and higher education, and recognises the MIB’s leading...
Manchester iGEM team wins gold
Under the supervision of Future BRH scientist Professor Eriko Takano, The University of Manchester’s iGEM team recently won a gold medal for their achievements at this year’s Giant Jamboree in Boston. The team created genetically engineered bacteria for a novel hair...
Future BRH Scientists involved in breakthrough for biofuels that could be made using seawater rather than crude oil
Future BRH researchers from The University of Manchester, supported by the prestigious US-based international maritime research agency Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG), is using synthetic biology to help identify a more efficient and sustainable method to make...
Future BRH Collaboration with FabricNano
A key aspiration of the Future BRH is to work with SMEs to evaluate and develop innovative technologies towards biomanufacturing applications. With this goal in mind, Research Fellows Dr Itziar Penafiel and Dr Sebastian Cosgrove have started a collaborative project...
Future BRH to Co-Host KTN Bioplastics Workshop (26 November)
The Future BRH is delighted to be co-hosting KTN’s Bioplastics Workshop at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology on 26 November. The workshop titled New functional materials as alternatives to short lived plastics used in construction and horticulture, aims to...
Future BRH Research Fellow Positions, University of Manchester (2 Posts)
We are pleased to announce that two new Future BRH Research fellow positions have now been advertised. These 2 new positions (based at The University of Manchester) will work closely with the Spoke institutions (particularly UCL and Nottingham): Position 1: Upstream...
Helping Robots to Build New Antibiotics
A team from The University of Manchester, led by Future BRH and SYNBIOCHEM scientist Professor Eriko Takano, have engineered a common gut bacterium to produce a new class of antibiotics by using robotics. These antibiotics, known as class II polyketides, are also...
Future BRH Research Fellow Positions, MIB, University of Manchester
At Future BRH we are currently advertising for two Research Fellows to work on Techno-Economic Analysis/Life Cycle analysis and fermentation/process scale-up, based at the MIB, University of Manchester. To find out more and apply, please...
