Taking Australia from the farm to the pharm

将澳大利亚人从农场带到制药厂：该奖学金项目旨在设计基于环肽的新型药物，这些药物将在植物种子中表达，以生产生物药丸-为患者和医疗保健系统节省资金。植物产生独特的环肽（迷你蛋白质）来保护自己免受害虫和病原体的侵害。该项目旨在通过化学方法重新设计这些肽，以生产可食用的稳定蛋白质药物。人们希望这些设计师药物将是廉价的，有效的，易于摄入，没有传统药物的副作用。该项目的成果预计将是高价值的药物和农业化学品，这将为澳大利亚农民开辟新的高价值作物和新的澳大利亚“制药”行业。

Taking Australian from the farm to the pharm: This fellowship project aims to design novel drugs based on cyclic peptides that will be expressed in the seeds of plants to produce bio-pills — saving money for patients and the health care system. Plants produce unique cyclic peptides (mini-proteins) to protect themselves from pests and pathogens. This project aims to chemically redesign these peptides to produce stable protein-based pharmaceuticals that can be eaten. It is hoped that these designer pharmaceuticals will be inexpensive, effective, easy to ingest and without the side effects of traditional drugs. The outcomes of this project are anticipated to be high-value drugs and agri-chemicals which will open up new high-value crops for Australian farmers and a new Australian ‘pharming’ industry.