Research

'During their 3.5 years on industrial placement, students will build on their existing skills using the latest scientific and engineering techniques to enable them to work at the interface between disciplines'

This inter-disciplinary research philosophy aims to evolve techniques to more rapidly progress biopharmaceutical products through the development chain. Bioscientists and engineers working together will acquire an understanding of the business environment and will deliver significant technological advances to the UK biopharmaceutical industry.

The research output of the BBTC is a growing set of tools and strategies:

  • Analytical
  • Cell Engineering Bioprocessing
  • Biosystems Understanding
  • Whole Bioprocess Design.

These enable the biopharmaceutical development process to be undertaken in a more efficient manner, as a result of a greater depth of understanding.

A commonly encountered limitation is a lack of, insufficient, or inherent difficulties in communication at the interfaces of biosystems development, scale-up engineering, and engineering and development of downstream processing capabilities. Often these limitations lead to the application of tools in isolation of fundamental bioscience and engineering resulting in sub-optimal solutions that lack clarity and robustness.

Find out more about our research themes and current student research projects.