An important area of chemical engineering that is increasingly becoming relevant is its application to the study of problems associated with biological systems, in particular with relevance to biomedical and environmental applications.
Research carried out by the BESG involves applying chemical engineering principles to address problems associated with process and product improvements, to devise analytical strategies for deriving system level information, and to understand biological systems and their associated processes at the fundamental level. Biological, biomedical and environmental processes are examined at the subcellular, cellular and systems levels.
Areas covered range from biomolecular imaging, proteomics, metabolomics, cell-cell interactions, cell culture, biopharmaceutical production and biofuels through to the clean-up of gaseous, liquid and solid wastes.
Members of the BESG have a broad base of expertise in (biological/bio)chemical engineering, bioprocessing, environmental engineering, computational modelling, microbiology and chemistry.
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