News and Events
Future BRH academic wins prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry award
Congratulations to Future BRH academic Dr Anthony Green, who has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize for the design and evolution of enzymes using an expanded genetic code. Anthony’s research group develop disruptive enzyme...
Outstanding Future BRH scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society
Congratulations to Future BRH Director Prof Nigel Scrutton and Future BRH academic Prof Nicholas Turner, who have both been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society. The highly prestigious award is thanks to their pioneering contributions to scientific discovery in...
Recruitment Opportunity – SYNBIOCHEM Senior Experimental Officer (Closing Date 13 April 2020)
This position provides an opportunity to join the University of Manchester’s Synthetic Biology Research Centre SYNBIOCHEM: a Centre of Excellence for the Synthetic Biology of fine and speciality chemicals production that is harnessing synthetic biology approaches for...
NCIMB Blog
NCIMB provide a number of microbiological and analytical service solutions to various industrial sectors, including synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology. They are launching a series of blogs to highlight these services to the community. To read the latest...
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...