Objective

Dig4Bio is a Twinning Action that aims to revolutionize the biomanufacturing landscape through digitalization, enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring precise quality control in the production of biopharmaceuticals and advanced therapy modalities. This Twinning action is set to advance IST’s research capacity and profile in digital biomanufacturing, while also bolstering research management and administrative skills.

Overall methodology

A biomanufacturing process typically comprises a string of activities grouped in stages (upstream processing, downstream processing, fill & finish) that are designed and appropriately monitored and managed with the goal of producing a certain amount of a target product with specific quality attributes. By analogy, the workflow of the project Dig4Bio encompasses a series of activities that we group in three stages and manage with the ultimate goal of stepping up and stimulating scientific excellence and innovation capacity in digitalization of biomanufacturing, as well as the scientific quality of the partners involved. We will start with UPSTREAM training and capacitation activities (WP1 & WP2) and then build upon their outcomes to tackle a new research challenge and engage in clustering activities DOWNSTREAM (WP3 & WP4). The results of the research and of the project will be communicated and disseminated to stakeholders, scientific community and general public – FILL & FINISH (WP5 & WP6).