Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: PolyCone Project - An Integrated Approach for Sustainable Pathways of Marine Resources: Cone Snails in French Polynesia

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：PolyCone 项目 - 海洋资源可持续途径的综合方法：法属波利尼西亚的锥螺

• 批准号: 2022885
• 负责人: Thomas Duda
• 金额: $ 26.5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-15 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022885&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; PolyCone

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support to foster global transdisciplinary research teams to address critical issues in ocean sustainability including, conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. This complex challenge required that the projects utilized integrated, transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approaches and bring together natural and social sciences as well as policymakers, resource managers, industries, citizens and other societal partners. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries to increase our knowledge of the complex linkages and pathways needed to accelerate sustainable use of oceans and minimize the effects from global change. The project focuses on developing a model to sustainably culture and harvest cone snails. Toxins of cone snails are an important source of pharmaceuticals for treating human health and may have other significant molecular properties with diverse applications. The potential benefits and uses of cone derived pharmaceuticals are evident in current clinical trials and the approval of one cone derived pain medication. This project will focus on French Polynesia and seeks to provide critical information to help communities develop integrated, ethical, and sustainable harvesting and aquaculture practices. The project will develop a model for the maintenance and enhancement of the sustainable wellbeing of these communities and their linked marine environments and ecologies through an integrated approach to developing new blue economics including significant advances in its aquaculture and venom exploitation processes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这一方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球意义的主题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国方法加以解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在这一合作研究行动中，伙伴机构共同努力，为培养全球跨学科研究团队提供支持，以解决海洋可持续性方面的关键问题，包括，养护和可持续利用海洋和海洋资源以促进可持续发展。 这一复杂的挑战要求这些项目采用综合、跨学科和跨部门的方法，并将自然科学和社会科学以及决策者、资源管理者、行业、公民和其他社会伙伴聚集在一起。 该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，以支持他们与来自至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟进行合作，以增加我们对加速可持续利用海洋和最大限度地减少全球变化影响所需的复杂联系和途径的了解。 该项目的重点是开发一个可持续养殖和收获锥形蜗牛的模型。锥螺毒素是治疗人类健康的药物的重要来源，并且可能具有其他具有不同应用的重要分子特性。锥细胞衍生药物的潜在益处和用途在当前的临床试验和一种锥细胞衍生止痛药的批准中是显而易见的。 该项目将重点关注法属波利尼西亚，并寻求提供关键信息，以帮助社区发展综合，道德和可持续的收获和水产养殖实践。 该项目将开发一种模式，通过综合方法开发新的蓝色经济，包括在水产养殖和毒液开发过程中取得重大进展，维护和增强这些社区及其相关海洋环境和生态的可持续福祉。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过利用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估，被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。