CBioPT is located at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) in Stockholm. The Centre was founded in January 1996 and provides a concentrated research environment for continuous collaboration between academia, industry and VINNOVA (The Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems, formerly NUTEK). The collaboration is bound by the terms of a three-party contract. The Centre has now entered the third contract period.
The aim of CBioPT is to develop and integrate the disciplines of chemistry, biology and engineering and to initiate and conduct long-range research and education that lead to advances in industrial bioprocessing.
The benefits of participation in the centre are that advances lead to technological breakthroughs which are unique, as a result of the multidisciplinary approach and the close and continuous industrial-academic collaboration. The centre contract also provides first hand access to intellectual property among the partners. In addition, the centre provides a unique environment for knowledge development and knowledge transfer between the partners, through joint participation in the projects and through the industrial PhD-students. The staff of CBioPT make site visits to the partners and an annual Centre Day is arranged. CBioPT also provides an advanced human and technical network for common use and provides a basis for the recruitment of personnel skilled in the field of bioprocessing research.
The area of excellence of bioprocess technology is represented by the participating industries and by academia, but central to CBioPT is the long-term establishment of selected senior scientists with a competence profile of interest for the CBioPT collaboration. These scientists cover several of the most important fields of bioprocessing from molecular biology to chemical engineering, and they provide the basis for PhD supervision and research programme coordination.
The strategy of the Centre is to focus the research into a few areas of critical mass working with multi-disciplinary programmes defined, decided upon, executed and evaluated by academia and industry in collaboration. The research programme is based on the joint identification of critical areas for scientific development in the field of CBioPT expertise. The present research programme involves four sub-programmes and covers both large-scale industrial protein production and rapid small-scale high-throughput parallel protein production. The work is continuously peer reviewed by an international board of experts.
In addition to research, education is a main area of interest at the Centre. As in the case of research, the education is defined by common industrial and academic needs. Here lie new possibilities for the design of specific industrial educational courses. A minor part of the activities has so far been devoted to contract research outside the limits of the main contract.

Program Advisory Board (1)
Thursday February 5
9.30 am- 4 pm
AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

Program Advisory Board (2)
Thursday April 22
9.30 am- 4 pm
AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

Program Advisory Board (3)
Thursday September 2
9.30 am- 4 pm
AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

CBioPT's Centre-day 2004
Wednesday September 29
AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm
Gunilla Appelgren Andres Veide

Program Advisory Board (4)
Wednesday November 10
South of Sweden

Board (1)
Friday January 30 
10 am- 4 pm

Board (2)
Thursday February 19
10 am-2 pm
AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

Board (3)
Thursday March 30
11 am-4 pm
AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

Board (4)
Tuesday May 18
10 am-2 pm
AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

Board (5)
Tuesday October 5
10 am- 2 pm
AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

Board (6)
Wednesday den 1 december
10 am-2 pm
AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm