Acronym NA
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Marine Chiroptics 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 NA Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
NUI - National University of Ireland (Ireland)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2017 End year 2018 Funding (€) € 199,936 Website NA Summary Marine Chiroptics is a proposal that will mainly contribute to the first two goals of Harnessing Our Ocean Wealth. The main aim of the Marine Biodiscovery group at NUI Galway is to transform marine bioresources into final products of high added values that are relevant for different biotechnological sectors including but non exclusive to the pharmaceutical sector mainly but also the food and cosmetical industries. The main thematic area we will contribute to is Integrated Marine Capacity & Capability providing new products in the market and trying to "marinise" the pharmaceutical sector in Ireland. Through the identification of new ingredients from the Ocean bioresources we will also strengthen the already established marine industries like the seafood and biodiscovery. The equipment we want to purchase with this proposal is related to the structure elucidation of the marine natural products isolated in the course of our different ongoing and future projects in Marine Biodiscovery at NUI Galway but also within the framework of the National Marine Biodiscovery Laboratory in Ireland we are leading at the Marine Institute, Oranmore. While infrastructure at the school of chemistry of NUI Galway is of top level to elucidate the 2D planar structures of bioactive metabolites produced by marine organisms, the spatial structure must be assessed by interpretation of chiroptical properties given by circular dichroism techniques. The description of the spatial structure of molecules is a critical step in drug discovery in particular. This equipment is absent in Galway and its region and today we must collaborate with research groups in Dublin or Paris to assess the full 3D structure of the pure marine natural products. Having full access to circular dichroism in Galway will be a decisive step towards the full structure determination of marine metabolites and will therefore end up the Marine Biodiscovery process.
Keywords
Drug discovery;
Nutraceutical substances;
Bioprospecting;
Human food;
Bioactive compounds;
Human health;
Pharmaceuticals;
Cosmetics;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
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