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New Partners 2018 & New President

21 March 2018

During the meeting of its Strategic Steering Committee (SSC) on 15 & 16 March, 2018, TWB welcomed 3 new industrial partners who joined the consortium on 1 January of the year: BRASKEM, IFPEN, MILLIDROP.   The consortium is now composed of 46 private and public partners (8 large companies, 1 mid-cap company, 8 small and… Read more »

TWB Award 2018 for Dust Biosolutions

20 February 2018

TWB rewarded the start-up Dust Biosolutions, in the frame of the event “Hey, start me up! – Industrial biotech” held in Toulouse – France, on 13 February, 2018. The Munich-based start-up Dust Biosolutions won the competition organised by TWB, called “Pitch me your biotech start-up!”. Six European start-ups were candidates for this first edition: Abolis… Read more »

Success for “Hey, start me up!”

20 February 2018

130 professionals from 11 countries met in Toulouse for the international “Hey, Start-me up!” event, organised by TWB. The industrial biotechnology sector event (1st edition – see programme) was the opportunity to bring together start-up firms, companies, structures for innovation and investors. The objectives of the day were achieved: to present the European biotechnology ecosystem,… Read more »

TWB Voeux 2018

Happy New Year 2018!

4 January 2018

TWB wishes you a surprising and exciting new year! Don’t hesitate to contact us: you wish to set up a research or development program in the field of industrial biotechnology; you need technical assistance or require the use of leading-edge technological equipment, … Contact: twb@inra.fr And don’t forget to register to our start-up next event:… Read more »

HEY, START ME UP! 13 Feb 2018

27 November 2017

TWB organizes, with the support of the attractiveness agency of Toulouse, a workshop that aims to bring together European key players in the biotech start-up business ecosystem. This “Biotechshop” will take place on 13 February 2018, at the premises of TBS (Toulouse Business School) in Toulouse (France). This event addresses to start uppers desiring to… Read more »

TWB service provider

TWB service provider for SuperBIO

8 November 2017

TWB becomes an expert SuperBIO service provider in the domain “Proof-of-concept and scale-up”. SuperBIO engages with companies and other industrial stakeholders that want to build innovative value chains around their activities and that are interested in innovation services to bring the value chain closer to the market. SMEs that are part of validated value chains… Read more »

TWB partner of ECP

7 November 2017

TWB supports the 2nd European Chemistry Partnering (ECP) taking place in Frankfurt (Germany) on 23 February 2018. The ECP is a very productive partnering event to bring chemistry innovators together: „The best chemically focussed startup event I have attended” one participant said. In 2018 over 500 decision makers are awaited, from the chemical industry and its… Read more »

Bravo to IBISBA H2020 project!

19 September 2017

The IBISBA 1.0 project for the biotechnology development in industry has just been selected by the European Commission under the call for tenders H2020-INFRAIA. The project is coordinated by INRA and involves TWB and LISBP with many other European partners*. The overarching aim of IBISBA 1.0 is to support and accelerate the uptake of industrial… Read more »

Great success for SYNTHACs project!

7 September 2017

The SYNTHACs project entitled “Synthetic Biology for the Production of Value- Added Chemicals from Renewable Resources” and price-winner at the 1st call of the program of Investment of Future in 2010 under the umbrella of ANR (Research National Agency) was dedicated to a fermentation production of a chemical -non-natural- synthon termed 2, 4 dihydroxybutyric acid (2,4… Read more »

TWB partner of “Industrial Biotech” at Expoquimia

30 August 2017

TWB supports “Industrial Biotech” at Expoquimia that is a new partnering event taking place in Barcelona (Spain) on 2-6 October 2017. Pierre Monsan is on the Advisory Committee. Held in the framework of Expoquimia, the International Chemical Event, Industrial Biotech has been conceived as a meeting point for innovative start-ups and industry players from several… Read more »