2009-09-24 - OPBC Request For Proposal Now Available!

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The Ohio Plant Biotechnology Consortium (OPBC) is seeking research proposals for Fiscal Year 2011.  The Request for Proposal is available on-line at www.opbc.osu.edu.  Proposals are due January 28, 2010.  Funded projects would begin July 1, 2010. Eligibility requirements can be found in the RFP.

The Ohio Plant Biotechnology Consortium was formed to stimulate and facilitate the most effective and financially relevant research efforts among Ohio universities and other interested parties.  The key goal of the Consortium is to strike a balance between the basic sciences that comprise biotechnology and the exploitation of this information for the benefit of Ohio citizens, agriculture and natural resources. Such an agenda, given the structure of Ohio’s economy, is to be distributed as the shared mission of all publicly funded institutions of higher learning.  OPBC was formed to maximize the development of an Ohio-based cooperative community of biotechnologies and to minimize duplication among state-funded institutions. Without doubt, a huge intellectual resource exists within the Ohio university system that can be harnessed either by joining together existing technologies in a collaborative way or by developing synergies among the membership to solve problems of global, national, and local significance.    

Examples of research areas that will potentially be supported by the Consortium include, but are not restricted to:
• Biobased products/energy
• Bio-remediation
• Plant improvement
• Alternate crop/plant development

Please contact Lori Kaser with any questions.

Lori Kaser

Grant Development Support

www.oardc.osu.edu/grantsupport

The Ohio State University

College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center (OARDC)

Office of the Director

1680 Madison Avenue

Research Services Building, 209 L

Wooster, Ohio 44691-4096

Phone:  330-202-3555, ext. 2638

Fax:  330-263-3688

Room 115 Ag. Administration Building

2120 Fyffe Road

Columbus, Ohio 43210-1066

E-Mail:   kaser.37@osu.edu

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