Overview:
Microbiotec is a research and development company founded in 2009, spin off of the University of Siena, since 2011 incubated at the Toscana Life Sciences Foundation. It operates in the field of microbial biotechnology, diagnostics, vaccines and immune response evaluation, probiotics, as well as perform transcriptomics data analysis. It has developed and validated a kit for the molecular diagnosis of Mycobacterium Tubercolosis infection, another diagnostic kit for vaginal infections and is developing a vaginal probiotic based on strains of Lactobacillus Crispatus.
Microbiotec is a partner in several European research projects.