Delaware Biotechnology Institute

Welcome
The Delaware Biotechnology Institute is a partnership among government, academia and industry to help establish the First State as a center of excellence in biotechnology and the life sciences. The Institute mission is to facilitate a biotechnology network of people and facilities to enhance existing academic and private-sector research, catalyze unique cross-disciplinary research and education initiatives, and to foster the entrepreneurship that creates high-quality jobs.

Faculty Profile
	Pamela J. Green Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences and Professor of Marine Studies Research in our lab focuses on post-transcriptional mechanisms that regulate the expression of genes in higher plants. More >>

Highlights
	SEPP grants May 17, 2013 The Center for Science, Ethics and Public Policy (SEPP), with support from the National Science Foundation's EPSCoR program, announces a grant competition to integrate considerations of science, ethics and policy into undergraduate and graduate instruction at the University of Delaware.. More >>

Research
	Reducing arsenic in food chain May 1, 2013 Harsh Bais and Janine Sherrier of the University of Delaware's Department of Plant and Soil Sciences are studying whether a naturally occurring soil bacterium can create an iron barrier in rice roots that reduces arsenic uptake. More >>

Delaware Biotechnology Institute
University of Delaware
15 Innovation Way
Newark, DE 19711

Phone (302) 831-4888 · Fax (302) 831-4841

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