The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

CHITOWOUND
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Biological Tools Implementation for New Wound Healing Applications of Byproducts from the Crustacean Seafood Processing Industry
International Cooperation
National-European
Kjell Morten Varum
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2017
2019
€ 884,000
http://chitowound.elearning-chemistry.ro/project/
The aim of the project is to develop an efficient process that can be upscaled for isolation of chitin and protein/peptides from crustacean waste in a more environmentally friendly than the current technology. Additional advantageous are increased quality and reproducibility of the chitin and thereby the chitosan products, as well as potential for utilizing the protein fraction present in this abundant marine biomass. Two chitosans of widely varying degree of deacetylation (DD) will be targeted for their biodegrability and wound healing applications. The objectives of Chitowound are as follows: 1. To increase the quality and reproducibility of chitin from crustacean waste by development of processing steps utilizing non-destructive enzymatic treatment of the biomass. Specifically, proteases with low pH optimum will be used in the acidic demineralization step to facilitate matrix opening and ease subsequent deproteinization. 2. To characterize the isolated protein/peptide fraction and explore potential use of this as a media component for microbial cultivation and for bioactive properties 3. To produce large batches of chitosans with widely different chemical composition; one with DD of 80-90 (present commercial qualities) and a new chitosan not commercially available with DD of 50% being soluble at physiological pH and with very different biodegradabily. 4. To increase functionality and value of these chitosans by peptide modifications 5. To use the functionalized chitosans for creating new biomaterials targeted for wound healing applications, including also the preparation of new chitosan-based biomaterials
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