Oeiras, Portugal
iBET
Non-profit private R&D institute offering bioprocessing, fermentation and downstream pilot capacity for food and pharma.
iBET bridges engineering and biology to advance biopharmaceutical development. The organization operates as a private non-profit research institute headquartered in Oeiras, Portugal, with 270 staff members and 60 state-of-the-art R&D laboratories. iBET focuses on multiple core competencies: bioengineering for cell-based therapies, advanced technologies for gene therapy products, vaccines bioprocess engineering, advanced cell models for drug discovery, translational immunology, and protein biophysics. The institute also pursues research in sustainability for food and health through microbiology, molecular biology, and natural bioactives and nutraceuticals. iBET maintains 110 PhD holders and over 40 PhD students and conducts over 150 R&D projects with industry partners. The institute operates dedicated toolboxes in bioanalytics, bioproduction, protein production and characterization, omics, and cell therapies and disease models. iBET's applied research spans cell therapies development, including hiPSC-derived cardiomyocyte production in bioreactors, and develops advanced 3D human cell models for preclinical research. The organization publishes extensively, with over 400 peer-reviewed publications in the last five years, and manages continuous production processes for vaccine-like particles and recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors.
Capabilities
- Drying
- Spray drying
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