2008 Grant Highlights
Support from Center Friends helps keep the Danforth Center running, while
Center scientists significantly supplement such backing for their research and
their laboratories with scientific grants. The following list highlights their
success in securing funds from a variety of public and private sources in a
competitive intellectual and financial environment.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Dr. Leslie Hicks to purchase additional
added additional Grand Challenge #9 equipment for metabolomics analysis.
funding for:
Drs. Jan Jaworski, Ed Cahoon & Joe Jez
Dr. Paul Anderson to aid in the to collaborate in developing bioplastics
creation of the Biosafety Resource from non-food oilseed crops.
Network, which will assist in clearing
Drs. Oliver Yu & Daniel Shachtman
the regulatory hurdles inherent in
to characterize grape polyphenols and
releasing the four Grand Challenge
how they are produced in plants.
#9 transgenic crops in developing
countries.
Additional Grants:
Dr. Richard Sayre to supplement
Drs. Ed Cahoon, Jan Jaworski, Joe Jez
a previous grant for BioCassava
& Sam Wang secured funds from the
Plus research.
National Biodiesel Board to increase
The Missouri Life Science Research
the oil produced in soybean seeds by
Trust Fund awarded grants for:
altering specific biochemical pathways
that are embedded within the plant.
Drs. Roger Beachy, Tom Smith, Monica
Schmidt & Oliver Yu to improve the
Dr. Chris Taylor was awarded a grant
efficiency of transforming biological
from the National Science Foundation
materials into energy, and improve
to study and characterize genes
the reliability and cost-effectiveness of
important in the development and
biofuels.
function of transfer cells.
Drs. Eliot Herman, Monica Schmidt,
Dr. Meinhart Zenk received funding
& Roger Beachy to investigate
from the National Institutes of
Camelina sativa as a nonfood crop
Health for his continuing research on
for the production of value-added
morphine and the mammalian brain.
biotechnology products, such as
industrial proteins.
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