I/UCRC: Center for Innovation Instrumentation Technology (CIIT)

农业生物医学和制药纳米技术中心（CABPN）将重点开发纳米技术平台，这些平台可以应用于需要强有力的工业/学术伙伴关系的三个非常重要的主题：农业、药物研究和生物医学应用。拟议的中心将是一个位于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校（UIUC）的单一大学中心。该提案鼓吹在生物技术和纳米技术的“前沿融合”中，医疗保健和农业取得进展。重点将是将生物纳米医学的发展从板凳上带到农业和医疗保健领域。预计该中心的进展将促进食用动物疫苗的开发、食品供应的安全性、重症监护患者的监测以及使药物研究更有效的工具。拟议中的中心将促成一个有凝聚力的大学与产业联盟，使产业参与者能够将他们的研究需求与学术界交流，促进不同市场空间公司之间的合作，并培养研究生成为有效的未来领导者。促进核心纳米技术实践者（主要来自电子和材料部门）与农业、生物医学和制药领域的实践者之间的合作，可以提供一个跨学科的平台，在这个平台上搅动智力熔炉并产生创新的解决方案。如果CABPN成功地将纳米技术工具转化为这些不相关领域的商业用途，同时从它们在中心的相互作用中获得协同效应，它可能成为商业创新的真正驱动力。成功可以创造就业机会，改善国民生活。CABPN计划在指导学生方面发挥积极作用，并将其纳入其总体计划。拟议中的中心有一个向少数民族推广纳米技术的系统，以促进向尽可能广泛的个人群体提供纳米技术培训，并计划在研究所/UCRC框架内举行会议，在研究所/UCRC的工作人员以及合作组织中广泛传播纳米技术。还计划出版作品，PI有一个考虑到伙伴组织商业利益的出版途径。

The Center for Agricultural Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology (CABPN) will focus on developing nanotechnology platforms that can be applied to three substantially important topics requiring strong industry/academic partnerships: Agriculture, Pharmaceutical Research, and Biomedical Applications. The proposed center will be a single-university center located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The proposal touts advances in health care and agriculture at the confluence of biotechnology and nanotechnology in a "convergence of frontiers." The emphasis will be on taking bio-nanomedical developments from the bench to benefit agriculture and healthcare. Advances in this center are anticipated to enhance the development of vaccines for food animals, and safety of the food supply, monitoring patients in intensive care and tools to make pharmaceutical research more effective. The proposed center will enable assembly of a cohesive University0Industry alliance that will enable Industry participants to communicate their research needs to academia, to facilitate collaboration between companies in different market spaces, and to train graduate students as effective future leaders. Fostering cooperation between the hard core nanotechnology practitioners (mostly coming out of electronics and materials departments) and those in agriculture, biomedicine, and pharma could provide a cross-discipline platform on which to stir the intellectual melting pot and generate innovative solutions. Should CABPN succeed in transitioning the tools of nanotechnology to commercial use in these unrelated fields while gaining synergies from their interaction at the center, it could be a real driver for commercial innovation. Success could produce jobs and improve the life of the nation. CABPN has planned an active role in mentoring students and has incorporated them into its overall plan. The proposed Center has a system for outreach to minorities to foster training in nanotechnology to the widest group of individuals possible, and plans to have meetings within the I/UCRC framework to widely disseminate the technologies within the staff of the I/UCRC as well as partnering organizations. Publication of works is also planned and the PI has a path to publication that takes into account the commercial interests of the partner organizations.