Collarborative Research: Planning Grant: Center for Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

0934153伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校；布赖恩·坎宁安0934103普渡大学；理查德·林顿农业和药物纳米技术中心将专注于开发可应用于三个需要强有力的产业/学术合作伙伴关系的重要主题的技术平台：纳米技术、农业和药物研究。伊利诺伊大学香槟分校(UIUC)和普渡大学(PU)正在合作建立拟议的中心，UIUC是牵头机构。CAPN旨在专注于纳米技术、农业科学和制药研究的融合，并召集一批具有不同背景和专业知识的研究人员和工业合作伙伴，以解决粮食生产、农业衍生材料和医疗保健中的几种“重大挑战”类型的问题。UIUC和PU计划使用NSF规划赠款基金与潜在的行业合作伙伴举行会议，以建立拟议中心的组织框架，并建立最具相关性的研究项目。三个截然不同的研究领域的结合提供了一个高度互补的环境，可以孕育新的伙伴关系来解决棘手的问题。纳米技术、农业和制药有许多共同之处，可以用来找到解决这些问题的办法。CAPN将提供一个丰富的跨学科研究环境，与工业界合作解决行业挑战，支持对卫生保健和农业具有广泛影响的项目。CAPN计划寻求大公司和小公司的支持，并与伊利诺伊州大豆协会、美国药物研究和制造商等行业财团建立合作伙伴关系。UIUC和PU还计划吸引高素质的国内学生，他们来自工程学和生物学领域代表性不足的群体：女性、少数民族和残疾学生。

Planning Grant for an I/UCRC for Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology0934153 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Brian Cunningham 0934103 Purdue University; Richard Linton The Center for Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology (CAPN) will focus on developing technology platforms that can be applied to three substantially important topics requiring strong industry/academic partnerships: Nanotechnology, Agriculture, and Pharmaceutical Research. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Purdue University (PU) are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with UIUC as the lead institution. CAPN aims to focus at the confluence of nanotechnology, agricultural sciences and pharmaceutical research, and assemble a group of researchers and industrial partners with diverse backgrounds and expertise to address several "grand challenge" types of problems in food production, agriculturally-derived materials, and health care. UIUC and PU plan to use the NSF planning grant fund to hold a meeting with prospective industrial partners to establish the proposed Center's organizational framework, and to establish research projects of greatest relevance. The combination of three vastly different research fields provides a highly complementary environment that can seed new partnerships to address intractable problems. Nanotechnology, Agriculture, and Pharmaceuticals share many linkages that can be exploited to find solutions to these problems. CAPN would provide a rich interdisciplinary research environment, working in concert with industry to solve industry challenges, that supports projects with broad impact on health care and agriculture. CAPN plans to solicit support from both large and small companies, and to form partnerships with industry consortiums such as the Illinois Soybean Association, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and others. UIUC and PU also plan to attract highly qualified, domestic students form constituencies under-represented in engineering and biology: women, minorities, and students with disabilities.