PharmaSea www.pharma-sea.eu Contacts Project Leader: Marcel Jaspars m.jaspars@abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen King’s College Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, UK Media Contact: Annette Langbehn info@pharma-sea.eu BIOCOM AG Lützowstraße 33-36, 10785 Berlin, Germany
Exploring the hidden potential Novel bioactive compounds
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PharmaSea The Partners
PharmaSea The Project
The Partners
PharmaSea | The PharmaSea project focuses on biodiscovery research and the development and commercialisation of new substances from marine organisms. Its primary goal is to collect samples from some of the hottest, deepest and coldest places on the planet. These samples will be screened to uncover new marine microbes and new bioactive compounds to evaluate their potential as new drug leads, antibiotics or ingredients for nutrition or cosmetic applications. PharmaSea is funded by the European Union under its FP7 programme.
Partners | The PharmaSea project builds upon a highly interdisciplinary consortium of 24 partners:
Consortium | PharmaSea brings together a broad international, interdisciplinary team of academics, industry researchers and specialists focused on marine biodiscovery. The collaborative project will build upon a highly interdisciplinary consortium of 24 partners from 13 countries from industry, academia and nonprofit organisations. World-leading experts from Belgium, UK, Norway, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Denmark as well as partners from China, South Africa, Chile, Costa Rica and New Zealand are taking part in the PharmaSea project.
• Advanced Chemistry Development ACD Labs, UK
• IUCN Environmental Law Centre, Switzerland
• Aquapharm Biodiscovery Ltd, UK
• KU Leuven, Belgium
• BioBridge Ltd, UK
• Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
• BIOCOM AG, Germany
• Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy
• c-Lecta, Germany
• The Institute of Microbiology IMCAS, China
• Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
• Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Deep Tek Ltd, UK
• University College Cork, Ireland
• eCOAST Marine Research, Belgium
• University of Aberdeen, UK
• Fundación MEDINA, Spain
• University of the Western Cape, South Africa
• Instituto de Dinamica Celular y Biotecnologica, Chile
• University of Tromsø, Norway
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad INBIo, Costa Rica
• University of Waikato ERI, New Zealand
• Istituto di Biochimica delle Proteine IBP-CNR, Italy
• Wuhan University, China
Project Leader | PharmaSea’s project leader is Marcel Jaspars from the University of Aberdeen. Research in the Jaspars group focuses on the functions and applications of natural products, particularly those from marine organisms.
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