Updated on 24 September 2026
R&D Services - Biotechnology
About
The Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) is a private, non-profit, research institution with 30+ years of experience. It is a multidisciplinary centre with research in disciplines: such as Organic Chemistry/Biocatalysis, Molecular-, Structural-, and Cell Biology, (Bio)Process Engineering, Bioinformatics and Synthetic Biology.
In addition to its more than 200 employees, acib has framework contracts with several scientific partners in Austria and beyond. acib can thereby provide additional expertise and equipment to the industry and act as a hub for industrial biotechnology in Europe.
acib has a budget from 2010-2024 of more than EUR 200 millions with international contributions from small start-up companies to multinational companies such as BASF, Sanofi, Evonik, Sandoz, Boehringer Ingelheim, Clariant, Henkel, 3M, Lonza, etc. (in total > 100 companies).
Follow this link for project ideas/offers: https://acib.at/offers/
Visit our biotech-blog: https://acib.at/blog/
acib is looking for R&D project-partners for:
- long-term (co-)development projects
- flexible fee-for-services
- partnerships in transnational funding programmes
acib offers:
+ contract research in all areas (from R&D to production and analysis)
+ extensive literature studies and IP search
+ consulting for funded research
+ professional project management for (funded) projects
+ professional dissemination activities
+ innovative and reliable partnership in (inter)national funding calls´
+ organization of events and conferences
+ training courses (theoretical and 'hands-on‘)
+ partner search
+ looking for technologies
+ 'acib task force' => solving challenging problems at your R&D Facility
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