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 Overview |
Aumgene’s R&D team is presently working on the following areas |
- Screening and isolation of novel microorganisms for production of,
- Industrial Enzymes (Mesophilic and Thermotolerant enzymes with wide pH range)
- Speciality Enzymes
- Biofertilizers & Biopesticides
- Prebiotics & Probiotics
- Decomposition of lignocellulosic waste for ethanol production.
- Use of molecular biology tools for genotyping and strain development.
- Molecular cloning for development of recombinant strains for therapeutic and non-therapeutic proteins.
- Bioprocess Development and Scale-up of fermentation and downstream process.
- Formulation and application testing of Enzymes, Proteins, Biofertilizers & Probiotics.
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| Infrastructure |
Aumgene has a dedicated Biotech R&D center based in GIDC, Surat, Gujarat. The R&D center has received the recognition of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) by the Government of India. The R&D center has been designed and equipped with the necessary equipments / instruments required to undertake groundbreaking biotech innovations to bring novel products to the market.
Dedicated and clean supply of utilities like Steam, Water supply, Air, Power back up, Air-conditioning, RO-Plant are available at the R&D center. For efficient communication and literature search wireless Internet and Intranet is available. Current Protocols, US Pharmacopoeia & other books and subscriptions are available in our in-house library.
Below is a brief description of the facilities presently available at the company’s R&D center. |
- Synthetic chemistry lab
- Microbiology lab
- Laminar air flow workstations, incubators, walk-in cold chamber, deep freezers (-20 & -80oC, rotary shakers, incubater shaker, two refrigerated centrifuge, lyophilizer, double door autoclave, fluorescence microscope etc, are some of the equipments we have in our microbiology lab.
- Plitol scale fermentation facility
- PLC based fermenters of 7 lt, 20 lt (6 nos.) & 100 liter working volume, double door autoclave. The fermenters are equipped with temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, foam, mass-flow and agitation speed controls.
- Enzymology Lab
- For screening and assay systems for industrial and specialty enzymes.
- Molecular Biology lab
- DNA & Protein gel electrophoresis, PCR, Gel documentation System, Microcentrifuge, etc.
- Analytical lab
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| Production scale fermenters |
| We presently have PLC based production fermenters of following working volumes. The fermenters are equipped with temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, foam, mass-flow and agitation speed controls. |
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| Downstream processing |
- Microfiltration
- Ultrafiltation
- Chromatography
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