Biotech Updates

Purdue University to Invest $20 M for Agriculture Research

September 18, 2013

Purdue University's College of Agriculture in Indiana, USA will receive more than $20 million in university funding for plant sciences research and education to strengthen the institution's leadership in developing new and novel ways to help feed a rapidly growing world population.

The plant sciences investment will include enhancing the college's ability to move research discoveries into commercially important crops with development of a plant transformation facility; building high-speed, large-scale capabilities to assess crop characteristics and performance through automated field phenotyping; and establishing a plant commercialization incubator facility to create opportunities for plant sciences faculty and students to move their ideas to the farm and the marketplace through commercialization and licensing arrangements.

See Purdue University's news release at http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2013/Q3/purdue-ag-to-receive-major-funding-for-plant-sciences.html.