Project PI: Carole L. Cramer (Arkansas State University)
Campus Co-PIs: Kenneth Korth (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
Stephen Grace (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
The EPSCoR P3 Center
- A new direction for Arkansas that builds on the state’s strength in agriculture and the food industry, and recent investments in research at the interface of agriculture, the environment, and medicine
- Enhancing research infrastructure, resources & cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration
- Linking research competitiveness with outreach and entrepreneurship to ensure knowledge-based economic development
Why pursue plant-made specialty products?
- New medicines addressing complexity, scale, safety, cost and chiral specificity
- New sources for enzymes, biofuels, health-promoting phytochemicals, and other industrial compounds
- New Ag-derived products to meet diverse markets
P3 Center strengths
- Extensive experience in plant-based enzyme and “plant-made pharmaceutical” production
- Key model systems for metabolic engineering and bioproduction
- Expertise in regulatory pathways and defense signaling
- Analytics for protein purification and characterization
- Analytics for metabolic profiling and phytochemical identification
- Bioinformatics for genomics, proteomics and metabolomics
- IP and tech transfer experience
- A strong commitment to cross-disciplinary collaborative research, discovery and application
EPSCoR P3 Center, Contact C. Cramer, ccramer@astate.edu |
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Whats New
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AR P3 Center to be Sponsor
of IPMB World
Congress 2009
St. Louis, MO
October 25-30, 2009
Graduate or Undergraduate
students may send questions and inquires about P3 and other
programs to edevereux@astate.edu.
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