Scale up industrial

🌍 Scale up industry : Immunrise x İMBİYOTAB (Boğaziçi University)
🧪 An international partnership to cultivate innovation

We are proud to announce our collaboration with the İMBİYOTAB laboratory at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul), led by Prof. Berat Haznedaroğlu, for a pilot production of 3,000 liters of microalgae culture.

The potential culture volume at the pilot unit could reach 30,000 liters.
💧🌱 A key step in the industrial development of our natural fungicide solutions.

🎯 Objectives of this phase:
→ Produce microalgal biomass on an industrial demonstration scale using a hybrid lighting system
→ Test the productivity of our strains (Amphidinium carterae) in real industrial conditions with the various players in the sector
→ Feed our bioactives pipeline for our regulatory tests needs

The transition from laboratory to pilot scale, then to industrial demonstration, should mainly serve to overcome technological barriers. As the industrial cultivation of the wild strain ICC001 has never been carried out before, knowledge and expertise must be adapted to our strain as a form of “gentle domestication.”

Microalgae cultivation is a challenging process in which control of environmental conditions and parameters is of paramount importance to ensure the expected yields. The right balance of lighting for photosynthesis and nutrients for growth must be mastered. Cultures are monitored by measuring the density of microalgae per liter, and the quality of the culture is measured by the total content of the targeted metabolites.

This partnership with a leading team in environmental biotechnology illustrates our desire to explore sustainable solutions at the crossroads of science, life sciences, and international cooperation.

🙏 A big thank you to Prof. Haznedaroğlu and the entire İMBİYOTAB team for their hospitality, excellence, and shared commitment to cleaner, more resilient agriculture : “Microalgae offer extraordinary potential in sustainable agriculture. Our collaboration with Immunrise is an important step toward introducing microalgae-based bioactive solutions that can reduce dependence on synthetic pesticides while supporting global food security and sustainable agriculture.”

On the #Immunrise side, #Cyril El Khoury, Technical Director, is enthusiastic about this collaboration: "In today's context of reducing the use of conventional pesticides, and with our firm belief in high environmental awareness, Immunrise strives to provide novel natural solutions for antifungal applications derived from microorganisms. Our motto "a future inspired by nature" is proven true everyday. Through our collaboration with İMBİYOTAB, we aim to accomplish the first step of industrializing the production of our proprietary strain of Amphidinium carterae and show the way for large-scale production to achieve our objectives.

🚀 The biotech adventure continues, more vibrant, more collaborative, and more global than ever.