Projects: Funding Results

Additional Funding Resulting from This Award

2003-2004: A “Technological Pole” has been established to facilitate technology transfer from the Facultad de Química to the private sector, with substantial extramural funding from both industry and the government of Uruguay. This group received a major grant from the EEC in February 2004 to further these activities

The new Technology Pole (the Polo Tecnológico) at Pando of the Facultad de Quimíca of the University recently received word that they will be receiving a substantial grant, entitled "Technology development in key sectors of Uruguayan economy", from the European Economic Community to upgrade the capacity of the Pole, and to initiate several projects. This grant will mainly (75%) be used to buy industrially - oriented equipment to develop pilot scale plants for several uses (fine chemistry, natural products, supercritical fluid extraction, etc), as well as some analytical equipment necessary to provide high technology services to some of the more relevant industries in these fields in Uruguay.

One of the leaders in this technology management effort is Andres Lelanne, who spent a 3-week visit at UC Davis last year acquainting himself with entrepeneurship and technology transfer activities in Northern California, which have served as a model for the Technology Pole in Pando. The Polo Tecnológico strategy was designed to facilitate and promote the introduction and intensive use of locally generated knowledge by the pharmaceutical and food sectors. The medium and long term objective is to increase the competitiveness of Uruguayan industry, so as to help them to grow in terms of exports as well as in the internal market.

Investigators affiliated with this group have already developed a product for skin care derived from the essential oils from Camomile flowers. A new commercial process is up and running. They are growing the flowers as a row crop, which makes taller and larger flowers than in the normal garden variety. This Pole is aimed to provide some kind of incubation of R&D departments for already existing companies in the pharmaceutical and food sectors, as well as environmentally linked services to all industries. Cooperation with UCD related to the wine sector, involving Jim Lapsley and Francisco Carrau, is part of our activities in the food sector, and equipment specifically oriented to the wine sector will be acquired through the EC grant, to provide hi tech analytical assessment to wine industry, as required to us by INAVI (the national wine institute).

 

Additional Funding for Fogarty Program Generated by FIC “Seed Funds”

Funding Agency	Amount ($USA, year of award)	Purpose
Uruguay: Government and Industry Sources	$ Hundreds of thousands (2003-2006)	Operating Funds, “Polo Technologia”, UdelaR
UC Davis	$10,000 (2005-2006)	Distance Learning Project, (J. Last + V. Rajal), Salta
CONICET (Argentina)	$15,500 (2005-2007)	Faculty Support, V. Rajal, Research, Salta
Fulbright Commission, Uruguay, and U.S. State Department	$8,000 (2005)	Support, James Lapsley (UCD), New Curriculum Development, UdelaR
SAREC (Swedish Agency for Research Co-operation).	$5,000 (2004)	Hydatidosis Workshop, G. Gonzalez, Montevideo
Montevideo Provincial Government (IMM)	$60,000 (2002-2006)	Trainee support and research support on immunoassays for IMM, B. Brena
DINACYT PDT (Uruguay)	$50,000 (2004-2005)	Aquifer Monitoring, B. Brena and A. Fernandez
DINACYT PDT (Uruguay)	$20,000 (2004-2005)	ELISA development, G. Gonzalez
CSIC (UdelaR)	$10,000 (2005-2006)	Microcystin ELISA kit development, B. Brena
OSE (Uruguay)	$11,000 (2005-2006)	Drinking water analysis by ELISA, G. Gonzalez

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