I/UCRC: BioMolecular Interaction Technology Center

制药和生物技术产业在维持和促进人口健康方面发挥着至关重要的作用，是美国经济的主要组成部分。这些行业已经从疾病的经验性治疗演变为药物开发的复杂方法，这需要对生命过程的生物化学有更深的了解。因此，对生物分子相互作用的准确描述已经成为了解疾病机制的核心要素，现在也是设计安全有效的药物的关键因素。各种仪器和方法被用来表征生物分子间的相互作用。这一I/UCRC将使制药、生物技术和仪器公司能够共同努力，开发表征分子相互作用的先进技术。

The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries play a vital role in maintaining and promoting a healthy population, and constitute a major sector of the US economy. These industries have evolved from the empirical treatment of disease to a sophisticated approach for drug development which requires a deeper understanding of the biochemistry of life processes. As a consequence, the accurate description of biomolecular interactions has become a central element in understanding disease mechanisms, and now is an essential ingredient for devising safe and effective pharmaceuticals. A variety of instruments and methods are used to characterize biomolecular interactions. This I/UCRC will enable pharmaceutical and biotechnological, and instrumentation companies to work together toward the development of advanced technologies for characterizing molecular interactions.