BioZone has infrastructure for pilot fermentation and biomanufacturing trials at 5 to 80 L scales. Services are available for the University of Toronto research community as well as external clients.
Humans have been making use of fermentation processes in food and drink preparation since ancient times. For 21st-century scientists and engineers, biomanufacturing offers the possibility of using well-defined cell lines and enzymatic processes to generate materials or chemicals of interest for research or commercial application.
Our facility is equipped to work with cell-free processes and organisms in the Biosafety Level 1 category (which includes common microbes such as Saccharomyces, Komagataella, and Escherichia coli) suitable for piloting industrial processes and for protein expression in common hosts. For safety reasons, we cannot work with animal cell lines or pathogens.