News

• During the Action, a novel Molecular Farming database has been built up grouping published and unpublished data. This database is searchable using queries like plant platform, expression level etc. It can be reached through the following link: http://mped.ab.wur.nl and is accessible to everyone interested.

• "Protalix"

• Pharma-Planta launches a pivotal phase I clinical trial of a plant-derived microbicidal protein
  http://www.pharma-planta.net/images/file/Pharma-Planta_Press_release_July2011.pdf
  http://www.pharma-planta.net/index.php?pg=50

• Rolinde Demeyer (ILVO, Belgium) obtained an ESR travel grant from COST to participate in PBVA 2011. In competition with 17 other candidates, Rolinde was elected to get the Early Stage Researcher Travel Grant. Rolinde Demeyer is a PhD student in the group of Bart Van Droogenbroeck, studying the further development of Arabidopsis as a seed-based platform for the production of recombinant proteins"