MARPLAST is led by the Norwegian Structural Biology Centre (NorStruct), Department of Chemistry, UiT the Arctic University of Norway. The project is a part of the UiT financed project MARVAL – From unexploited marine biomass to high value products, and is additionally financed with a grant from ERA-Net in Marine Biotechnology (ERA-MBT).
Partners in the ERA-MBT project is Prof. Knut Irgum, Umeå University, Sweden and Dr. Ana-Maria Tanase, University of Bucharest, Romania.