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Alfred Deakin Professor Colin Barrow, Deakin University’s Chair in Biotechnology, will lead a multi-million-dollar research program in the new $270m Marine Bioproducts Cooperative Research Centre (MB-CRC).
Transforming fish skin into collagen for wound healing, food or cosmetics, or harvesting omega-3 from micro-algae for food supplements, fish food and pharmaceutical products are just some of the expected applications of a major Deakin research program that aims to seed new advanced manufacturing industries and help transform Australia’s emerging marine bioproducts sector into a sustainable and globally competitive industry.
Alfred Deakin Professor Colin Barrow, from Deakin’s Faculty of Science, Engineering and the Built Environment, will lead the Innovative Bioprocessing Technologies research program – one of three research programs in the Marine Bioproducts Cooperative Research Centre (MB-CRC) recently announced by the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, the Hon. Christian Porter MP.