MARBLES

Harnessing marine microbes for drug discovery and sustainable production of fish and crops

MARBLES is a €7.5 million, 5-year EU-funded project that will develop new methods for the sustainable collection and use of biological resources from marine environments and assess their commercial potential.

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“MARBLES will have a significant impact across the European pharmaceutical and food industries. The project will unlock some of mother nature’s secrets, and harness marine biodiversity’s potential to address some of society’s greatest challenges. Our diverse team will ensure the project’s outcomes will have practical applications in a range of settings. I’m looking forward to sharing our developments!”

Professor Gilles van Wezel, MARBLES Project Coordinator

Project Overview
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Explore our work

Through nine Work Packages, MARBLES is addressing the challenges of finding and identifying the bacteria and their molecules, extracting their active ingredients in a sustainable, effective way, and the commercial and regulatory difficulties of bringing a discovery from the lab to market

Work Packages

Bringing together 14 partners from 10 European countries

Working together, the interdisciplinary team will harness the unexplored potential of marine microorganisms as producers of novel antimicrobial agents and as bioprotectants in aqua- and agriculture.

Consortium

Impact on aquaculture, agriculture and the environment

The results of MARBLES are expected to improve the use of marine microbes as a sustainable resource for drug discovery and bioprotectants for aquaculture and agricultural crop diseases.

Results
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