Green research grants

Roundtable members published a common industry view on key areas of green chemistry research [12]. Each year the Roundtable awards a research grant to an academic to work on one of the priority research areas identified by its members. These grants are open to any academic and are awarded by a research panel comprising selected members of the Roundtable. A list of research areas funded so far is presented in Table 16.2. It should be noted that any results of these Roundtable projects are to be published, for all to adopt, free from any IP license. 

This study was supported by the project The Model of Green-Hydrogen Community in Honjo-Waseda area of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan, and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant No. B-17360365) by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Technical support and fruitful discussions provided by the staff of ITEC Co., Ltd. was greatly appreciated. 

The concept of Green Chemistry was introduced in the early 1990s in the USA. After the introduction of the US Pollution Prevention Act, the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) explored the idea of developing new or improved chemical processes to decrease hazardous to human health and the environment. In 1991, OPPT launched a research grants program called Alternative Synthetic Pathways for Pollution Prevention. This program was focused on pollution prevention in the design and synthesis of chemicals. 

I wish to thank William Lamar, Susan Novak, Joan Ford, David Duvall, Peg Dunklin, Melva Grisson, Winston Green and Martin Smith for their help with this manuscript. Several of the projects included were supported by University of Texas at Tyler faculty research grants. I also acknowledge the help of my students Carolyn Schofield, James Low, Debera Holland and Michael O Bleness. 

C.S.H. is a Cancer Research Campaign (UK) Clinical Research Fellow and holds ajunior Research Fellowship at Green College, Oxford. This work was supported by grants from the CRC (UK) to J. O D. M. G. 

Gleadow, A.J.W., Duddy, l.R., Green, P.F. Lovering, J.F. (1988) Assessment of hydrocarbon resource potential in Australian sedimentary basins development of fission track techniques. End-of-grant report for National Education, Research Development and Demonstration Council, Project No. 720, Australia (unpublished). 

This work was supported by the Ohio Division of the Americeui Cancer Society, The Bowling Green State University Biomedical Research Support Grant, Alumni Association and Parents dub. 

Green, B.G., Chabin, R. and Grant, S.K. (1996) The natural product noformycin is an inhibitor of inducible-nitric oxide synthase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 225, 621-626. 

McClellan-Green, P.D. et al, Consumer health risks due to incidental exposure of fish to Pfiesteria piscicida, in Research on Toxic Algae Pfiesteria-like Organisms, Sea Grant North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 1998. 

In his research, the author has benefited from consultation and collaboration with numerous individuals including, most prominently, Terrence Green, Seymour J. Klebanoff, and Henry Rosen, and in his own laboratory, J. Michael Albrich, William C. Barrette, Jr., and Diane Hannum. His work is supported by Public Health Service Grant AI-15834 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 

We thank D.A. Young and B.L. Marrs for valuable discussions and for sharing their unpublished data, W.R. Richards and B.R. Green for helpful comments. C.L.W. was supported by a Canadian N.S.E.R.C. postgraduate fellowship. This research was supported by Canadian N.S.E.R.C. operating grant A-2796 to J.T.B. 

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