Research Centers

Avicenna Research Institute
Provides information on the 3 centers (Reproductive Biotechnology, Monoclonal Antibody, Nanobiotechnology), research projects, education, publications and news from the Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research.
http://www.avicenna.ac.ir/WebSite/ARI/En/

Biological Process Development Facility
Part of the specialty programs and units in the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Research focuses on the development of vaccines and therapeutic agents from recombinant proteins.
http://www.engineering.unl.edu/academicunits/chemical-engineering/research/BiologicalProcessDevFacility/index.shtml

Biotech Center
Offers programs in microbiology, plant biology, animal and environmental sciences. Includes policies on membership, patents and intellectual property, and directs to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick.
http://aesop.rutgers.edu/~biotech/

Biotechnology Center
Research on genomics, proteomics, flow spectrometry, mass spectrometry, plant transformation, bioinformatics, and microscopy. Lists faculty services, seminar schedule and club meetings, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
http://www.biotech.unl.edu/

Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories
Uses plants to develop cost efficient vaccines. Located at Thomas Jefferson University operates under the direction of Hilary Koprowski, M.D. Includes job listings and contact information.
http://www.jefferson.edu/greenvaccines/

Biotechnology Process Engineering Center
BPEC researches development and manufacturing of synthetic biological systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
http://web.mit.edu/bpec/

Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
Academic research institute at Rutgers University and UMDNJ-RWJMS. Information about faculty research, symposium, seminars, education, employment in Piscataway, New Jersey.
http://cabm.umdnj.edu/

Center for Integrated BioSystems
CIB is dedicated to agricultural and environmental biotechnology research, including a core service lab facility, work force training and student education at Utah State University, Logan.
http://www.biosystems.usu.edu/

Clinical Investigation Institute
Focuses on education, consulting and research in treating immune and inflammatory diseases. Page includes list of programs, symposia, and list of staff. Located at the University of California at San Diego in the United States.
http://cii.ucsd.edu/

Dinamic Applied Biotechnology Innovation Center
Projects on clinical and veterinary diagnostics, agriculture, food, renewable energies and industrial ecology. Includes collaborations, courses and meetings in Tarragona, Spain
http://www.etseq.urv.es/dinamic/

Fralin Biotechnology Center
Dedicated to research and education in the life sciences, promoting collaboration across disciplines. Includes core facilities for confocal microscopy, transgenic greenhouse, fermentation and protein purification at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.
http://www.biotech.vt.edu/

Institute of Biotechnology
Education and research are focused on the application of microorganisms and enzymes for the production of biocatalytic systems. Includes research, publications, events, and course modules in Zurich, Switzerland.
http://www.biotech.biol.ethz.ch/

Institute of Biotechnology and Drug Research
Focuses on fungal metabolites for agriculture and pharmaceutical applications to create new drugs, biopesticides and bioremediation treatments. Includes areas of expertise, partnerships and contacts in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
http://www.ibwf.de/

Institute of Microbial Technology
Focused on exploitation of microbiology offering research programs in fermentation technology. Includes projects, patents, collaborations, publications and details of facilities in Chandighar, India.
http://www.imtech.res.in/

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
Offers studies in molecular biology, biophysics, imaging, biotechnology and DNA analysis. Includes list of staff, related links and contacts in Jena, Germany.
http://www.imb-jena.de/

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology GmbH.
Fields of research, featuring video-tour on cell motility. Includes facilities of the laboratory, key staff, and contacts in Vienna, Austria.
http://www.imba.oeaw.ac.at/

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Organisation dedicated to advanced research and training, with special regard to the developing world. Includes overview of projects, affiliated centers, training, funding, with campus at New Delhi, India and headquartered in Trieste, Italy.
http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/

Macro Genics
Research into immunotherapeutics, including monoclonal antibodies, to treat patients with cancer, autoimmune disorders, allergy or infectious diseases.
http://www.macrogenics.com

Michael Smith Laboratories
Offers research projects in molecular genetics, fermentation and bio-process engineering, synthesis and sequencing, protein analysis, cell culture and downstream processing, biomolecular thermodynamics and production of gene knock-outs. Includes related links at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
http://www.michaelsmith.ubc.ca/

New Jersey Center for Biomaterials
Academic-based developer of innovative biomaterials for delivery of drugs, and tissue repair, and for future commercialization. Includes history, postdocoral training in tissue engineering, and events in Piscataway.
http://www.njbiomaterials.org/

Office of Technology Transfer
Provides information on new drugs and devices, both in development and brought to market, the results of research at Emory University.
http://www.ott.emory.edu/

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Research Group
Focuses on the isolation of new bioactive peptides and small molecules from a variety of sources such as frog, snake and scorpion venoms and plants. Discuss specimen gathering trips in different areas around the world. Includes a frog page. Located at the University of Ulster.
http://www.frogpharm.com/

Sandia National Laboratories - Biosystems Research Department
Research with government on national security issues and biotechnology applications, focused on microfluidics, cellular and genetic structure, molecular recognition, proteomics and sensor development. Includes list of specialties and staff at Livermore, California.
http://roswell.ca.sandia.gov/

Springbrook Research Centre
Environmental studies and observations of bioluminescent organisms and bioluminescent fungi at the Springbrook Research Centre, Queensland, Australia.
http://springbrook.info/research

University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Research directed to improve human health, marine environment, agriculture and protein development. Includes overview of the five research centers, with news and information on education outreach projects at Baltimore.
http://www.umbi.umd.edu/