BioRegions Innovation Prize awarded during the annual German Biotechnology Days 2023 (DBT) in Wiesbaden The prize honors innovative patents from modern biotechnology and life science research, including medical technology, and is awarded by the German BioRegions Working Group. For 16 years, the prize has successfully supported scientists in making their patented ideas visible, turning them into marketable products and founding their own companies.
This year, an innovator from North Rhine-Westphalia is also among the winners: the BioThrust led by Dr. Patrick Bongartz from RWTH Aachen was honored for his project “Integral gassing and stirring unit for bioreactors”. The patent describes the invention of a membrane stirrer that, for the first time in the world, makes it possible to supply organisms and cell cultures in a bioreactor with sufficient gas without the formation of bubbles. The jury justified its decision with the associated significant increase in process yield, which offers particular potential for pharmaceutical production.
Source: BIO.NRW
