DRUGCROPS
Fighting Drought With Small Molecules
ABOUT THE PROJECT
DrugCrops is a H2020 project aimed to discover and develop new drugs to improve plant productivity under drought conditions. We will acquire and exploit knowledge about the Abscisic Acid (ABA) receptors in crop plants to carry on a drug discovery pipeline in collaboration with the BioFarma Unit at USC. We will also produce structural data on crop ABA receptors through our partnership with the IQFR-CSIC. Structural, biochemical and biological approaches will help us to further develop refined chemicals with better chances to work in real world situations .
MEET THE TEAM
Here to Make the Project to Succed
JORGE LOZANO-JUSTE
Marie Curie Fellow (CSIC) - DrugCrops Principal Investigator
JOSE MANUEL BREA
Head BioFarma HTS (USC) - DrugCrops Partner BioFarma-USC
PEDRO L. RODRIGUEZ
Professor (CSIC) - DrugCrops Coordinator & Host Lab
ARMANDO ALBERT
Associate Professor (CSIC) - DrugCrops Partner IQFR-CSIC
MABEL LOZA
Professor (USC) - DrugCrops Partner BioFarma-USC
IRENE GARCIA
Master Student (CSIC) - DrugCrops Victim
Stay Up To Date
WHAT’S NEW?
Please take a moment to explore our News & Updates room. Follow the link to get an up to date vision on the project status. We also encourage you to post comments and give us feedback on our research plan and latest results. We want to share all of the stories that come out of DrugCrops.
May, 29 2016
DRUGCROPS TRAVELS TO SWITZERLAND
We will bring the project to the Gordon Research Conference on Salt and Water Stress in Plants
October, 10 2016
IRENE GARCIA JOINS DRUGCROPS
Irene Garcia, a Master Student in the Plant Biotech program joins DrugCrops to screen a natural product chemical library. She will also develop CRISPR/Cas9 vectors for genome editing in Setaria viridis
Nov, 7 2016
THE SCREENING IS UP AND RUNNING
We have visited Santiago de Compostela to setup the conditions for the screening. With the help of the BioFarma group at USC the "in vitro" assay is now working on a 348-well plate format. The screening just started. So excited!
CONTACT US!
If there’s anything you’d like to know about our project , please get in touch.
Jorge Lozano-Juste
Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas-CSIC-UPV
Av. Ingeniero Fausto Elio s/n Edificio 8E
46022 Valencia
Spain
+34 963877860