Year: 2024

The futureSAX Innovation Forum I – Chemistry as a Building Block of the Future: Innovations, Sustainability and the Molecules of Progress will take place in Delitzsch on March 21, 2024

Designing innovative solutions and exchanging ideas: How is chemistry finding practical use as a connecting element in the fields of materials science, life science and energy? Which innovative products, services and processes are already being used today? You will receive answers to these questions and further impulses at the futureSAX Innovation Forum in North Saxony.

Dr. Susanne Ebitsch, Managing Director of the Research and Transfer Centre for Bioactive Matter at the University of Leipzig, and Dr. Oliver Uecke, Managing Director of Lipotype GmbH and Chairman of biosaxony e.V. will jointly moderate the World Café Panel Services Life Science, in which innovative, future-oriented services for the transformation of the chemical industry will be discussed in an interdisciplinary manner.

Workshop „Transforming Discoveries into Products”

You are cordially invited to our b-ACTmatter workshop on March 19 2024 entitled “Transforming Discoveries into Products”. This workshop will discuss the strategies and practices needed to transform your research results into products and services. It will also discuss how Leipzig University approaches the patenting and licensing of inventions and how to realize spin-off ideas.

When?
March  19 2024, 10.00 – 12.30

Where?
BBZ, Seminar Room 1.3,
Deutscher Platz 5, 04103 Leipzig

Learning Objectives

  • A broad overview of the field of Technology Transfer;
  • Gain insights into patenting and patent evaluation, and the licensing process;
  • Increase knowledge on setting up a spin-off company, including the broad financing possibilities;
  • Understanding which steps are necessary for developing a product or service
10:00 – 10:10Welcome and introduction
(Dr. Susanne Ebitsch)
10:10 – 10:35How to protect and valorize IP at Leipzig University?
(Dr. Dirk Wilken, Stefanie Funke)
10:35 – 11:00 SMILE: Startup support and funding opportunities for prototyping at UL
(Christian Scheffler, Christian Hauke)
11:00 – 11:10 Break
11:10 – 11:20Introduction  to the Workshop (Dr. Susanne Ebitsch)
11:20 – 12:20Steps toward the successful commercialization of your research results
12:20 – 12:30Wrap-Up

Flyer of Event

Contact
Dr. Susanne Ebitsch,
E-Mail

Please register by 29 February by E-Mail.

Utilising active microparticles for artificial intelligence

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Artificial intelligence with neural networks performs calculations digitally with the help of microelectronic chips. Physicists at Leipzig University have now realised a form of neural network that works not with electricity but with so-called active colloidal particles. In their publication in the renowned journal “Nature Communications”, the aim is to use these microparticles as a physical system for artificial intelligence and the prediction of time series.

Go to press release of Leipzig University

Woman Power at Research and Transfer Center b-ACT matter

b-ACTmatter– scientist to take part in the Exist-Women start-up initiative from mid-January

Biotechnologist Subhashini Singh will be funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK ) from mid-January via the EXIST-Women start-up programme.

The young scientist completed her Master’s degree in “Development of point-of-care devices for the detection of carbapenem-resistant bacteria” in Mumbai, India, and has been working in Dr Henri Franquelim’s Biomimetic Nanotechnology junior research group at the Research and Transfer Centre for Bioactive Matter b-ACTmatter since 2022. Her research focus is in the field of Membrane-active DNA origami for biosensing and antimicrobial applications. As the demand for DNA-origami nanostructures has been surging a lot due to their easy chemical modification and self-assembly properties, she would like to utilize her knowledge to develop a groundbreaking platform for targeting membrane-active pathogens by developing origami sensors.

With the EXIST funding programme, the BMWK supports start-up networks, universities and non-university research institutions in their start-up projects. The aim is to improve the start-up climate at universities and non-university research institutions and to increase the number of technology-orientated and knowledge-based spin-offs from research institutions. The EXIST-Women programme is part of the initiative and specifically promotes start-up projects by female university graduates, scientists and students and is implemented at Leipzig University by the SMILE start-up initiative.

The programme enables Singh to familiarise herself with the topics of start-ups and self-employment and to network and exchange ideas with other prospective female founders. The funding includes a 3-month scholarship and a programme of events, advice and support for one year.

Biotechnologist Subhashini Singh . photo: b-ACT^matter
Biotechnologist Subhashini Singh will receive funding through the EXIST-Women start-up programme from mid-January. Photo: b-ACT^matter

Biochemical Colloquium

Joint colloquium of the Faculty of Life Sciences and b-ACT^matter

The Faculty of Life Sciences at Leipzig University and b-ACT^matter jointly invite you to the next lecture of the Biochemical Colloquium.

23 January 2024 | 4:00 pm

Topic:

The electro-biotechnology for biosynthesis of chemicals and fuels

Dr. Bin Lai

Dr Bin Lai is BMBF Junior Research Group Leader for Biophotovoltaics in the Department of Environmental Microbiology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ Leipzig.

The lecture will take place in presence and online.

Venue of the event

Presence :
Kleiner Hörsaal
Brüderstraße 34
04103 Leipzig

Online:
https://uni-leipzig.zoom.us/j/65597072918
Meeting-ID: 655 9707 2918
Kenncode: 328510

Plastics meets medical technology

Lecture as part of the network event of the Leipzig Plastics Center

From January 31 to February 1, 2024, the networking event “Plastics meets Medical Technology” of the Plastics Center will take place in Leipzig. The series of events offers an interface between plastics and medical technology, where experts from both sectors can meet and share their specialist knowledge on innovative approaches and tried-and-tested experiences.
As part of the event, Dr. Susanne Ebitsch, Executive Director of b-ACT matter, will give a presentation at BIO CITY Leipzig.

The plastics and medical technology industries are currently operating in a dynamic market environment: global megatrends such as sustainability, digitalization and demographic change are having a significant impact on decisions in companies and research institutions. How are both sectors dealing with the current challenges and far-reaching changes? What can be derived from this for your own company? The networking event will address these questions.
Theoretical requirements versus practical experience will be examined in detail in high-caliber presentations on topics such as materials, design, function & research, processes, measurement technology and quality.
Around 150 participants from all over Germany, Austria and Switzerland are expected to attend the event.

The event will be accompanied by exhibitors from both sectors, excursions to companies and scientific institutions involved in medical technology and medical research in Leipzig, as well as a networking evening at Da Capo.

One of the event excursions will go to BIO CITY: Dr Susanne Ebitsch, Executive Director of the Research and Transfer Centre for Bioactive Matter b-ACT matter, will give a lecture during the event and present the work of the centre as well as technologies based on so-called hybrid living materials.

  • Technologies for the sustainable production of polymers with living hybrid materials and enzymatic plastics recycling
    Lecture by Dr Susanne Ebitsch
    31 January 2024 at 16:00 | Seminar room 2 of the Biotechnological-Biomedical Centre (BBZ)

If you are interested in attending the event, please register via the Kunststoff-Zentrum Leipzig website:

Website of Event “Plastics meets medical technology”