Interested in Research?
You will undertake a challenging and rewarding research project as part of the course. This will give you practical experience of research in a chosen area of biological and bioprocess engineering. You will then become an important member of one of the leading research teams in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and will be supervised by one or more members of academic and research staff.
Projects offered in the past
Some of the following projects have been offered in the recent past:
- Development of open tube capillaries for downstream bioprocessing of biopharmaceuticals to enable the enrichment of a range of protein/protein complexes including biotin labelled proteins, antibodies and GST fusions.
- Optimization of fed batch culturing strategies for recombinant antibody production to maximise cell growth and minimise the build up of inhibitory metabolites such as lactate.
- Modelling recombinant monoclonal antibody production by mammalian cell factories to determine cellular control of Mab synthesis and rational engineering of cell function to increase productivity.
- Application of calorimetry and spectroscopy to understand the mechanisms determining therapeutic protein stability in commercial formulations.
- Biorefininery for biofuels from waste using microbubble transfer enhancement in a novel air-lift loop bioreactor.
Some of the projects offered will have Industrial partners and will be directly addressing Industrial needs.
One of the many benefits of our course is that it is possible to use the Masters course to find a placement for a PhD in the field of Biological and Bioprocess Engineering.
Funding may be available for appropriate candidates.