{"590816":{"#nid":"590816","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Billion-dollar project would synthesize hundreds of thousands of molecules in search of new medicines","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMartin Burke, a chemist at the University of Illinois in Urbana, has watched biologists pull\u0026nbsp;in billions of dollars to decipher the human genome, and physicists persuade\u0026nbsp;governments to fund the gargantuan Large Hadron Collider, which discovered the Higgs boson. Meanwhile chemists, divided among dozens of research areas, often wind up fighting for existing funds.\u0026nbsp;Burke wants to change that. He has\u0026nbsp;proposed that chemists rally around an initiative to synthesize most of the hundreds of thousands of known organic natural products: the diverse small molecules made by microbes, plants, and animals. He has teamed with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/jeffrey-skolnick\u0022\u003EJeffrey Skolnick\u003C\/a\u003E, a computational biologist and professor in the School of Biological Sciences, to come up with a potentially easier way to synthesize natural products.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-04-24 17:48:08","changed_gmt":"2017-04-24 19:57:24","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"sustainability award","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/04\/billion-dollar-project-would-synthesize-hundreds-thousands-molecules-search-new","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"590818":{"id":"590818","type":"image","title":"Jeffrey Skolnick","body":null,"created":"1493056241","gmt_created":"2017-04-24 17:50:41","changed":"1493056241","gmt_changed":"2017-04-24 17:50:41","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225103","name":"Jeffrey Skolnick.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jeffrey%20Skolnick.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jeffrey%20Skolnick.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":31057,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jeffrey%20Skolnick.jpg?itok=5bXXa1vT"}}},"media_ids":["590818"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"11937","name":"Jeffrey Skolnick"},{"id":"140461","name":"Computational Biology"},{"id":"7572","name":"microbes"},{"id":"174137","name":"natural products"},{"id":"174138","name":"synthesis"},{"id":"5926","name":"Molecules"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}