Mission Statement
The Department of Biotechnology is a leading institution for research and education, focusing on:
- Biotechnology for Health and
- Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future.
We develop novel concepts and solutions for the well-being of individuals, society and the environment. Our scientific approaches and methodologies include molecular biotechnology, synthetic biology, bioprocess technology, cell biology, bioanalytics, genome-scale data science, mathematical modeling, as well as techno economic evaluations. By interdisciplinary integration of our scientific results we provide solutions with industrial applicability.
We teach undergraduate and graduate students in all fields of biotechnology mainly in the bachelor program Food- and Biotechnology, the master program Biotechnology, and several Doctoral Schools.
Institute of Bioprocess Science and Engineering
- Biopharmaceutical processing using E.coli, insects cells, CHO and HEK cells
- Model-based control of up and downstream processing
- Cyber physical depiction of bioprocesses
- Modeling and scale up and scale down of bioprocesses.
Institute of Animal Cell Technology and Systems Biology
- BioProcesses for native and engineered proteins
- Protein engineering
- Systems biotechnology to understand cellular limitations
- Knowledge driven cell line engineering
Institute of Cell and Tissue Culture Technologies
- Isolation, characterization, expansion and differentiation of human primary/stem cells for cell-based therapy products
- Development of physiologic cell culture conditions mimicking the native cellular environment by using advanced culture technologies
- Culture under physioxic conditions
- 3D culture systems (scaffold-free and scaffold-based)
- Culture in dynamic bioreactor systems
Management and Administration
Addresses & Contact
H79000 Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
Department für Biotechnologie
Muthgasse 18
1190 Wien
Contact:
https://boku.ac.at/dbt
Tel.: +43 1 47654 79002
Fax: +43 1 47654 79009