BioNow Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Conference

NCIMB’s Business Development Manager Dr Jude Huggan reflects on the 2023 event Last week I had the pleasure of attending the BioNow Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Conference in Darlington and what a great event it was!  It was brilliant to see such a great mix of speakers, exhibitors and delegates, showcasing the world-class biomanufacturing facilities and pharmaceutical companies that are located in the Northeast of England.  I arrived in time to grab a coffee to chat to the exhibitors – some I’d met before, others I was meeting for the first time. …

Madonna, Mass Consumption and Microbes

by Edward Green, CEO, NCIMB At NCIMB, we believe microbes can provide sustainable solutions to the big issues of our time. With NCIMB gearing up to attend and present at the Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association event in May, ‘The power of microbes and the development of the circular bioeconomy’, I asked myself, are we on the brink of a fifth revolution, the ultimate BioRevolution, and how can NCIMB’s diverse microbial biorepository help towards reversing climate change and other societal challenges including disease outbreaks, food shortages, fuel poverty, loss of …

NCIMB attending Vitafoods Europe Conference online

Let’s meet online at Vitafoods Europe! Our business development manager Dr Jude Huggan is attending the event online and looking forward to chatting with other delegates to discuss how NCIMB can support companies in the nutraceuticals sector. Get in touch at enquiries@ncimb.com if you would like to arrange an online meeting to discuss: We can also undertake projects to develop customised assays for organisms or functional genes of interest.

ARISTO project update

NCIMB is part of ARISTO: The European Industry – Academia Network for Revising and Advancing the Assessment of the Soil Microbial Toxicity of Pesticides. Soil microorganisms are essential for soil health, so it is important that the methods used to assess pesticide toxicity reflect the impact of their use on this group of organisms. Recent studies have indicated that ammonia-oxidizing microbes (AOM), which perform the first and typically rate-limiting step of the important nutrient cycling process nitrification, are ideal microbial indicators of agrochemicals’ toxicity because of their key functional role, …

ICorr Industrial Visit to ICR

Our consultant microbiologist Dr Carol Devine attended the ICorr Industrial visit to ICR last Tuesday evening. She said: “It was a most enjoyable and educational visit, and it was good to meet old friends, colleagues and clients face-to-face again! It was great to be back at ICR and to see how the company has grown and developed over the past three years, with many new faces AND new technologies” The evening included demonstrations from QuickFlange, OMNI, Sky-Futures, TechnoWrap and Insono as well as from the Corrosion Monitoring and Chemical Injection …

From Bicycles to Biotech: IBioIC’s 9th Annual Conference

IBioIC’s Annual Conference, now in its 9th year, has become a key date in the industrial biotechnology calendar. NCIMB’s CEO Dr Edward Green reflects on this year’s event, and the unique potential that NCIMB has in supporting the sector. I attended the IBioIC annual conference this week, my first as CEO of NCIMB Ltd. Nearly 400 delegates participated in lively discussion relating to “Resilience and the Bioeconomy”, and the opening plenary focussed on how industrial biotechnology can make a real difference to societal grand challenges including climate change and net …