Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology

About the department

The department of Chemistry and Biotechnology was created in the School of Science in 2017, founding director was Ivar Järving. The institute merged the former Institute of Chemistry and the Institute of Gene Technology from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the Institute of Food Science from the Faculty of Chemistry and Materials Technology. Recent scientific discoveries in chemistry, molecular biology and food technology have opened up completely new perspectives in fields as medicine, industry, agriculture and the environment.

Programmes

General info about Applied Chemistry, Food and Gene Technology Programmes

Seminars

Information about the department seminars

Division of Food and Biotechnology

Research groups of Division of Food and Biotechnology

Division of Gene Technology and Biomedicine

Research groups of Division of Gene Technology and Biomedicine

Division of Chemistry

Research groups of Division of Chemistry

Social media

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News

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03.07.2025

Two Marie Curie Fellows Cross Paths at TalTech’s Sustainable Chemistry Lab

This spring, two Marie Curie fellows crossed paths in the same laboratory at TalTech – one arriving, one departing. In an interesting coincidence, both resear...