The Institute of Medical Biotechnology provides an umbrella research and teaching facility that brings biomedical and natural scientists together with engineers from process engineering, mechatronics, optical engineering and sensorics to work in a multidisciplinary and competitive research environment. We provide an interface between biomedical sciences, life sciences and bioengineering. Our focus in Medical Biotechnology is dedicated towards Technologies in Life Sciences and Biotechnology to increase our understanding and manipulation of organ (dys)function. This is fuelled by combining research on medical diseases and principles of biotechnology and biomedical engineering to develop technical strategies to assess diagnostics and possible disease therapies.
Topics covered at the Institute of Medical Biotechnology reach from bio-mechatronics in muscle, advanced optical technologies in Life Sciences (e.g., multiphoton (endo-)microscopy), to regenerative medicine (tissue engineering). A joint focus through the different groups is to develop and expand the field of opto-biomechatronics, and area that brings together biophotonics and biomechatronics in holistic engineering of novel systems technologies to directly assess structure-function relationships in tissues and bioartificial constructs in health, disease and bioengineering.
Our institute is well connected to local and international collaborators (i.e., USA, Canada, Australia) and promotes internationalisation of state-of-the-art research to meet the rapid growing expectations in biotechnology research and industry for the future of Life Sciences.