Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering

Biotechnology can be defined as a technology that efficiently applies various functions such as material conversion functions, information conversion functions, and energy conversion functions of living organisms (cells) to the production of useful substances such as pharmaceuticals, variety improvement, and elucidation of life phenomena.

Therefore, the application fields of biotechnology have spread not only to the pharmaceutical production industry, but also to a wide range of fields such as chemical industry, fermentation industry, food industry, agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery, energy-related industry, environment-related industry, as well as biological resources and bioelectronics, thus forming a new industry of biotechnology.

Research in the laboratory includes: 1st. Examination of the separation and characterization of useful microorganisms for the development of functional traditional fermented foods, 2nd. Search and characterization of useful microorganisms secreting bacteriocin for growth inhibition of plant disease and mushroom disease strains, 3rd. Development of optimal medium for stable production of mushrooms, 4th, The production of useful substances using immobilized biosystems and the development of functional fermented foods.