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University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy faculty members Michael Jay, Ph.D., and Paul Bummer, Ph.D., and Czarena Crofcheck, assistant professor of biosystems and agricultural engineering, were honored by Gov. Paul Patton as recipients of a 2002 Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation Award on Feb. 27.
The awards are designed to aid researchers in developing products and attracting high tech companies to the Commonwealth that are essential to the state’s economic future.
The Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation Grant Awards are for R&D projects funded by the Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation (KSEF) for investments in research priorities designated by the Commonwealth.
The 32 awardees represent research in the Kentucky’s five priority research areas of biosciences, environmental and energy technologies, human health and development, information technology and communications and materials science and advanced manufacturing.
Crofcheck, Jay and Bummer received $56,069 for “Improved Recovery of Engineered Pharmaceutical Proteins from Tobacco Plant Extract.”
They propose to use a biotechnology-oriented approach to genetically alter the part of the tobacco plant which can be used as a source for the production of proteins so that it can be isolated from tobacco plant extracts using a technique called foam fractionation. If successful, this technique will improve the efficiency of producing drug products from tobacco plants and enhance the output of "molecular farming" by Kentucky's tobacco growers.
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UK College of Pharmacy - Rose Street, Lexington, KY 40536-0082 - Phone (859) 323-5761 - Fax (859) 257-2128 |
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W. Lopez, Last Modified:
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