Acronym NA
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Beaufort Marine Biodiscovery Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Alan Dobson Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
UCC - University College Cork (Ireland)
Institutions involved
DCU - Dublin City University (Ireland) ,
NUI Galway - National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland) ,
QUB - Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom) ,
UCD - University College Dublin (Ireland) ,
Start year 2008 End year 2015 Funding (€) € 7,249,444 Website http://www.marinebiotech.eu/sites/marinebiotech.eu/files/public/images/conference/presentations/02DobsonAlan.pdf Summary The Beaufort award provided resources to build the initial capacity for a national Marine Biodiscovery Programme.
This programme is driven by the strategic objectives of the Sea Change Strategy. The underlying aim of the programme is to assess the biological diversity of the flora and fauna of the (IEEZ) with a view to developing natural products as the basis for novel applications in areas such as drug discovery, functional food ingredients, and biomaterials. A key element of the work programme is the interdisciplinary integration of work on ecology, taxonomy and systematics in the context of culture, screening and application research. To make a contribution to national capacity in marine biodiscovery, this approach requires a network across disciplines and institutions as the work could not be carried out by any single laboratory or institution.
The aims of the Programme are to:
1. Develop and enhance interdisciplinary knowledge of Ireland's marine macro- and micro-biota
2. Manage and benefit from marine resources, through a more comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Ireland's marine biocomplexity
3. Benefit human health by contributing to the development of new ethical drugs and therapies
4. Develop new, and enhance existing, industries, through high value commercial ventures based on bioactive substances, biomaterials and biochemical mechanisms
5. Make Ireland a leader and respected international partner in niche areas of research, training development and commercialisation of high-value marine bioproducts
Keywords
Biodiversity;
Bioproduct;
Drug discovery;
Bioprospecting;
Bioactive compounds;
Human food;
Human health;
Biomaterial;
Market;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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