The submitted master thesis deals with assessment of the possibility of using of cheese whey for biotechnological production. Study content composition of lyophilized whey, optimization of acid hydrolysis and preparation of cultivating mediums with different content and treatment of cheese whey. Between the aims of this thesis belong also screening of microbial producers, interesting for biotechnology and looks at their growth and production of selected metabolites of cultivation mediums containing cheese whey. All substrates and produced metabolites where examined with UHPLC-PDA-RI and GC-FID: Amount of produced microbial lipids was determined by gravimetric analysis. Examined microorganisms belonged to yeast genus Saccharomyces, Metschnikowia and bacterial genus Lactobacillus and its focused on production of ethanol, microbial lipids and lactic acid. The highest yields with using yeasts were obtained using production medium containing hydrolysed lactose in cheese whey. The highest production, in case of bacteria, was obtained using non-hydrolysed, untreated cheese whey production medium.