Extensive experience in the areas of bioengineering, pharmaceuticals, analytical chemistry and bioeconomics.

Despite being recent, we have extensive experience in the areas of bioengineering, pharmaceuticals, analytical chemistry and bioeconomics, having been an accredited laboratory since the beginning (ISO/IEC 17025/2017).

Our main goals are:

- Valorization of agro-industrial residues
- Biotechnological processes
- Analytical chemistry
- Research and Development in Bioengineering
- Bioeconomy
- Circular economy

Short CV of CEO:

Amin Karmali (CEO) has a B.Sc. (Honours) degree and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry (Enzymology) from King's College London (U.K.), post-doctorate in Immunochemistry at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science (Lisbon-Portugal) and Aggregation in Enzyme Technology at the University of Évora. For further information,please  click here

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Research and Development in Bioengineering

Biosensors are analytical devices for monitoring and quantification of metabolites, enzymes, proteins, antibodies and nucleic acids in biological samples.

Bioeconomy and Circular Economy

The bioeconomy plays a key role in the use of renewable raw materials for the production of high added value chemicals in several fields of industrial biotechnology such as food, feed, pulp and paper and biofuel production . The food processing industry and agriculture generate huge volumes of bio-waste which is an environmental problem. These bio-wastes contain a high diversity of functional compounds that can be converted into fine chemicals.

Analytical Chemistry of e-liquids, e-electronic cigarettes and mushrooms and medicinal plants

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have been exhibited an exponential growth in popularity in many parts of the world. Despite its growing acceptance, there is little analytical work to characterize its vapour. The e-liquid used consists of propylene glycol, glycerol, distilled water, appropriate flavorings and nicotine. The cigarette vapor is analyzed by HPLC-DAD, GC-MS, GC-FID and ICP-OES. Medicinal plants and mushrooms have high concentrations of nutrients in beta glucans, secondary metabolites and enzymes of great therapeutic interest for several diseases.

The aim of this research and development (R & D) work is the extraction, detection and monitorization and quantification of beta glucans, secondary metabolites and enzymes in the extracts as well as their stability over time under different storage conditions.

Analytical work will be also carried out for the presence of heavy metals, pesticides and organic solvents in these samples. Therefore, several laboratory analytical techniques will be used for the analysis of enzymes, secondary metabolites and beta-glucans, organic solvents, heavy metals and pesticides, namely GC-MS, HPLC-DAD, GC-FID, ICP-OES and high-resolution chromatographic techniques for proteins

Valorization of agro-industrial waste

As far as the planet sustainability is concerned, it is compulsory to valorize bio-waste in order to reduce the emission of environmental pollutants and to obtain products with high added value. There is enough know-how in the extraction and purification of enzymes, beta glucans and secondary metabolites from several bio-wastes. Examples: spent composts of  mushrooms, wine, beer, juices and olive oil among others.

Biotechnological processes

These processes involve the production of enzymes, beta-glucans, monoclonal antibodies and secondary metabolites that can be produced by microbial fermentation by wild-type and recombinant microbial strains and extracted from biomass with several unit operations of extraction and purification by using high-resolution chromatographic techniques.