Marine Bioproducts Engineering Center

97-31725 ZABORSKY该奖项由海洋生物产品工程工程研究中心发起。牵头机构是夏威夷大学马诺阿分校，加州大学伯克利分校是核心伙伴机构。根据一项新的合作协议，该奖项为头五年的努力提供资金，潜在期限为十年。海洋生物产品工程ERC的愿景是为21世纪的海洋生物技术业务奠定工程研究和教育的基础，该业务致力于为化学、制药、保健品、化妆品、食品、饲料和生命科学行业提供高价值产品。ERC将海洋科学和过程工程这两个不同的主题结合在一起，以解决以前未得到充分利用的生物产品资源--世界海洋。该中心的基础是夏威夷大学在海洋科学和加州大学伯克利分校生物处理方面的成熟专业知识、夏威夷大学的公海采集资源以及该中心与新兴海洋生物技术产业的伙伴关系。世界海洋是一个巨大的、基本上尚未开发的海洋生物资源，其中含有许多不同行业使用的产品或产品的原材料。该中心的研究范围从探索海洋寻找新的产品线索，到开发生物反应器和分离技术等生产工艺，再到通过组合化学和其他技术开发新发现的海洋生物产品的配方和稳定性。该研究项目涉及化学家、海洋学家、生物学家、生物工程师和化学工程师。通过将海洋概念引入两所大学教授的本科生和研究生课程，该中心将培养出具有理论和实践工程专长以及对海洋和生命科学NCES学科和实践具有实用知识的海洋生物技术工程师。该中心还将为专业海洋生物工程师提供培训，将通过火奴鲁鲁的主教博物馆向K-12学校的儿童和普通公众宣传，并将与社区大学合作。该中心将与夏威夷、美国大陆和环太平洋地区的工业合作伙伴合作。它还将得到银行和风险投资公司的支持，这些公司为夏威夷新兴的海洋生物技术产业提供资金。这一奖项是根据ERC计划公告，NSF 97-5，ERC在1997-98财年工程研究中心竞赛中提出的预提案的结果。

97-31725 ZABORSKY This award initiates the Engineering Research Center for Marine Bioproducts Engineering. The lead institution is the University of Hawaii at Manoa with the University of California, Berkeley as a core partner institution. The award funds the first five years of effort under a new cooperative agreement, with a potential duration of ten years. The vision of the ERC for Marine Bioproducts Engineering is to build the foundations of engineering research and education for a 21st century marine biotechnology business devoted to high-value products destined for the chemical, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic, food, feed, and life sciences industries. The ERC brings together two disparate topics, marine sciences and process engineering, in order to address apreviously under-utilized bioproducts resource, the world's'oceans. The Center builds on well-established expertise in marine sciences at the University of Hawaii and in bioprocessing at the University of California, Berkeley, the open ocean collection resources at the University of Hawaii, and the Center's partnership with the nascent marine biotechnology industry. The world's oceans represent a great, and largely untapped, resource of marine organisms containing products or the raw materials for products that are of use in many different industries. The Center's research spans from exploration of the oceans for new product leads, through the development of production processes, such as bioreactors and separation technologies, to the formulation and stability of newly discovered marine bioproducts through combinatorial chemistry and other techniques. The research program involves chemists, oceanographers, biologists, bioengineers and chemical engineers. By introducing marine concepts into undergraduate and graduate courses taught at both institutions, the Center will produce marine biotechnology engineers who have theoretical and practical engineering expertise and a working knowledge of marine and life scie nces disciplines and practices. The Center will also provide training for professional marine bioengineers, will outreach to K-12 school children and the general public through the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and will partner with community colleges. The Center will collaborate with industrial partners from Hawaii, the U.S. Mainland and the Pacific Rim. It also will have support from banks and venture capital firms that fund the nascent marine biotechnology industry in Hawaii. This award is the outcome of the entry of the ERC's preproposal in the FY 1997-98 Engineering Research Centers Competition under the ERC Program Announcement, NSF 97-5.