Program 1
Marine bio-products for human health and nutrition
- Improve existing marine-derived bio-products
- Novel bioactive bio-products
- New product formulation technologies for functional ingredients
- Integrated bio-product functional test platforms for nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, functional foods and ingredients
- Health claims and efficacy of nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, foods and ingredients
- Innovative integrated biorefinery processing technologies optimising profitability and sustainability metrics
- Capacity to support regulatory approval of functional bio-products
- Market assessment & development human nutrition and health products industry
Program 1 Leader
Professor Colin Barrow
Deakin University
Program 1 Deputy
Dr Michael Conlon
CSIRO
Industry Co-leader
Dr Damien Stringer
Marinova
Program 2
Marine-Derived Agricultural Products
- Improved existing marine-derived agricultural products
- Novel and bioactive agricultural products
- Efficacy of marine agricultural products in greenhouse and field applications
- Market assessment and development Australian marine agricultural products industry
- Cost efficient green processing technologies for agriproducts with competitive advantages
- Innovative processing technologies for new agricultural products
Program 2 Leader
Professor Ben Hankamer
University of QLD
Program 2 Deputy
Professor Rob Capon
University of QLD
Industry Co-leader
Rob Velthuis
Xeron
Program 3
Sustainable Marine Bioresources
- Marine animal and algae species bioactive libraries ready for marine bio-product commercialisation.
- Sustainable, scalable and cost-effective cultivation of species compatible within Australian environments
- Sustainable wild harvesting and cultivation of species for bio-products demanded by global markets
- Cost-effective on-farm harvesting, drying, storage of marine biomass ready for advanced processing
- Environmental, ecological and risk assessment of culture methods
- Policies for wild harvesting and cultivation of marine species at industry scale
Program 3 Leader
Professor Catriona MacLeod
University of Tasmania
Program 3 Deputy
Professor Peer Schenk
University of Qld
Program 3 Deputy
Steven Clarke
SARDI/PIRSA
Industry Co-leader
Dr Graeme Barnett
Qponics
CET Leader
Professor Kirsten Heimann
Flinders University
Connect Educate train (CET)
- Creating globally connected leaders
- Building the future workforce
- Community education and engagement
- Enabling and accelerating commercialisation
Intellectual Property and Commercialisation
The MBB-CRC’s prime objective is to provide a cooperative platform to accelerate the translation of marine bioproduct discoveries and create an energetic and expansive bio-economy industry in Australia, through adoption of the MBB-CRC’s IP, processes and candidate products.
