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Ingenza is a life sciences company based in Midlothian, incorporated in Scotland in 2002 (SC237393).
What they do
“Ingenza is a biotechnology company specialising in the design, development and manufacture of diverse high-value industrial and therapeutic protein products. We exploit synergies between synthetic and evolutionary biology, providing next generation microbial and mammalian manufacturing platforms.”
In its own words, on ingenza.com
In plain speak
They design, develop and make high-value proteins for industry and medicine using synthetic and evolutionary biology.
Awarded a £134k Innovate UK grant for "SMARTY: Sustainable Methacrylate Advanced Research Technology for Yeast"
Awarded a £99.9k Innovate UK grant for "codABLE: Data-driven optimised protein production using Pichia pastoris"
Awarded a £134k Innovate UK grant for "Topical bacteriocin therapy with epidermicin NI01 for dermatological infections (TOBRADERM)"
Awarded a £511k Innovate UK grant for "BIOS: The bio-intelligent DBTL cycle, a key enabler catalysing the industrial transformation towards sustainable biomanufacturing"
Awarded a £455k Innovate UK grant for "Unleashing Putida: Biobased Methacrylates for a Sustainable Future"
Partner in an Innovate UK-funded project, "Investigating the mechanistic pathways of augmented volatile organic compounds related to the oesophagogastric cancer microbiome"
Awarded a £173k Innovate UK grant for "High-performance yeast for sustainable liquid fuel"
Awarded a £59.8k Innovate UK grant for "HydroGreen Biofuel: Reducing the carbon footprint of highly efficient bioethanol production"
Awarded a £34.3k Innovate UK grant for "A novel bio-manufacturing platform to accelerate and to increase industrial use of cold-active enzymes"
Awarded a £72.4k Innovate UK grant for "Recombinant yeast production of COVID-19 antigen to support clinical testing"
Awarded a £109k Innovate UK grant for "Enzyme-enhanced safe placement of paediatric nasogastric feeding tubes"
Awarded a £350k Innovate UK grant for "A novel biomanufacturing platform to accelerate and to increase industrial use of cold-active enzymes"
Awarded a £380k Innovate UK grant for "Sweet Perspex"
Awarded a £104k Innovate UK grant for "Viable biotechnological production of industrial methacrylate polymers"
Awarded a £148k Innovate UK grant for "HydroBioChem: An innovative industrial biotechnology-drive route to commodity chemicals exploiting affordable but otherwise stranded hydrocarbon feedstocks."
Awarded a £196k Innovate UK grant for "Enhanced interpretation of metabolomics data to accelerate microbial engineering."
Awarded a £25k Innovate UK grant for "Point-of-care testing for nasogastric tube placement verification in neonates and children"
Awarded a £397k Innovate UK grant for "i-Bacillus: Adapting Bacillus licheniformis for 21st century IB applications"
Awarded a £485k Innovate UK grant for "Enhanced productivity and functionality of Modified Ribosomally Produced Peptides (M-RIPPs)"
Awarded a £200k Innovate UK grant for "Efficient production of first in class antimicrobial therapeutics from an integrated synthetic biology approach."
Awarded a £314k Innovate UK grant for "A novel enzymatic means to confirm correct and safe nasogastric tube placement"
Awarded a £226k Innovate UK grant for "A naturally inspired industrial biotechnology route to the manufacture of a novel biopolymer with unique properties"
Awarded a £258k Innovate UK grant for "ERANET IB IPCRES"
Awarded a £122k Innovate UK grant for "P2P: Pentoses to products: a new tool for synthetic biology"
Awarded a £139k Innovate UK grant for "Adaptable Synthetic Promoters to Optimise Industrial Competitiveness of Engineered Yeast"
Awarded a £135k Innovate UK grant for "ERAIB CELLULECT"
Awarded a £183k Innovate UK grant for "Enhanced discovery and scalable synthesis of therapeutic cyclic peptides"
Awarded a £231k Innovate UK grant for "Predictive optimisation of biocatalyst production for high-value chemical manufacturing"
Awarded a £182k Innovate UK grant for "Genome-scale metabolic modelling to optimise high value biomanufacturing"
Awarded a £179k Innovate UK grant for "Ligniflex: A synthetic biology platform to optimise the process and products of enzymatic lignin disruption"
Awarded a £104k Innovate UK grant for "Feasibility study for a new industrial biotech bioprocess for the manufacture of a novel biopolymer with unique properties"
Awarded a £172k Innovate UK grant for "Production of Pharmaceutical Intermediates using fermentation of genetically engineered microorganisms"
Awarded a £145k Innovate UK grant for "Integron and omics based acceleratation of industrial strain development"
Awarded a £212k Innovate UK grant for "Accelerated development of industrial microbes using GSA"
Awarded a £219k Innovate UK grant for "Novel engineered microbial strains for platform chemical manufacture"
Awarded a £45.4k Innovate UK grant for "High Pressure Production of High Value Products from Biotransformations"
Awarded a £268k Innovate UK grant for "Adapted yeast for superior carbon conversion"
Awarded a £128k Innovate UK grant for "Mining new enzymes in the rumen for biomass processing and chiral synthesis"
Awarded a £69.3k Innovate UK grant for "Novel engineered fungal strains for platform chemical manufacture"
Awarded a £24.3k Innovate UK grant for "Accelerated development of industrial microbes using GSA"
Awarded a £145k Innovate UK grant for "Development of ultra-low cost novel biocatalyst manufactruing process using yeast"
Awarded a £125k Innovate UK grant for "Engineering of enzymes and chemistry for improved transaminase processes"
Awarded a £187k Innovate UK grant for "Biocatalysis and Chemical Engineering for Manufacturing Intensification and Sustainabiliy(BIOCHEMIST)"
Awarded a £64k Innovate UK grant for "A small-footprint reactor for biosynthesis and separation of industrial chemicals."
Awarded a £109k Innovate UK grant for "SeaScreen: Expanding a Bioprocess Repertoire by Smart Marine Microbe Screening foNovel Oxidases."
Awarded a £170k Innovate UK grant for "Improved industrial bioprocesses to prepare chiral beta-amino acids"
Led Ingenza's expansion
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