Chair of Molecular Biotechnology

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Science

Enzymes are catalytic active biomolecules rendering outstanding services in the metabolism of living organisms. Science at the chair MBT focuses on functional understanding, molecular manipulation and application-oriented concepts for preparation of enzymes relevant for White Biotechnology and Green Chemistry.

Educational mission

Human life quality considerably benefits from technical use of microorganisms, their molecular structures and products. Transfer of knowledge in this field to future generations of life scientists, chemists and engineers is a central concern of the chair MBT.

Team Molecular Biotechnology

Interdisciplinary as the scientific field and international as its importance is the constitution of Team MBT. Scientific and technical employees, scholars, and students from biological, chemical and engineering sciences do research, teach and learn in close cooperation.

The Chair of Molecular Biotechnology

Biotechnology, science of the technical use of biological material, is considered an important next generation technology of the 21st century. It is expected to improve the global supply with healthy and nutritious food, enable effective treatment of severe diseases and provide chemicals, materials and energy in an environmentally benign and resource-efficient way. Central pillars of this development are understanding and directed manipulation of molecular structures and processes in biological systems. They are topics of research and development of molecular biotechnology as a scientific field. Research and teaching of the chair MBT at TU Dresden focus on molecular understanding and directed development of enzymes as effective catalysts for chemical reactions.

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