The North Carolina Biotechnology Center will be taking grant applications until Sept. 23 for proposals, with cost projections of less than $75,000, for projects that will strengthen biotechnology research and development at academic institutions and other non-profits involved in research. Among the specific areas on the Biotechnology Center’s wish list this fall are biotech applications for food safety, nutritional and natural products, and also projects that will have specific applications in agriculture.
To give researchers at lower profile institutions an inside track, scientists at the main campuses of Duke, N.C. State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are ineligible for this funding program. Among the grant recipients in 2008 was the SAES’s Dr. Omon Isikhuemhen, who was awarded $75,000 to investigate potential applications for biotechnology methods in mass propagation, inoculation and screening of truffle-inoculated seedlings.
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