Algal Biomass Research Lab’s objectives:
- To isolate valuable algal strains showing high growth rate, high oil production efficiency, high temperature tolerance, functional chemical substances production, etc from Malaysia and ASEAN countries.
- To establish algal mass culture systems which optimized in Malaysia including utilization of waste water.
- To improve the quality of research methodology and results by collaborating with other sources of expertise and technology.
- To provide chemical engineering, metabolic engineering, chemical biology command, such as training, short course or other educational medium to enable knowledge transfer to industry and sustainable production of energy source.
- To encourage higher impact research output such as journals, intellectual properties, patent, commercial products and etc.
- To make the i-Kohza as one of the Centre of Excellence MJIIT-UTM.
Astaxanthin compound, due to astaxanthin’s antioxidant activity, it may be beneficial in cardiovascular, immune, inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases
From left, our Head of iKohza, Koji Iwamoto-sensei with YB Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh, Ministry of Higher Education and Norio Sugiura-sensei (member of Algal Biomass iKohza) #soaringupwards