Funding

Department of Energy (DOE), “Protein Targeting to the Chloroplast Thylakoid Membrane:
Structure of a chloroplast signal recognition particle.” $500,000 for 3 years (8/16 to 7/19),
PI: Dr. Ralph Henry; Co-PIs: Dr. TKS Kumar and Dr. Colin Heyes.

Department of Energy (DOE), “Protein Targeting to the Chloroplast Thylakoid Membrane:
Structure of a chloroplast signal recognition particle.” $250,000 for 2 years (8/13 to 7/15),
PI: Dr. Ralph Henry; Co-PIs: Dr. TKS Kumar and Dr. Robyn Goforth.

Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA), “To Uncover and Understand the Bioactivity of Graphene.” $110,368 for 1 year (10/13 to 9/14), PI: Dr. Ralph Henry; Co-PIs: Dr. David McNabb and Dr. Ravi Barebote.

National Institutes of Health (NIH),COBRE: “Center for Protein Structure and Function Phase III.” Sub-Project: “Peptide and Protein Production Core.” $375,000 for 5 years (9/10 to 5/15), PI: Dr. Frank Millett; Co-PIs: Dr. Ralph Henry and Dr. Roger Koeppe.

Department of Energy (DOE), “Protein Targeting to the Chloroplast Thylakoid Membrane:
Structure of a chloroplast signal recognition particle.” $495,000 for 3 years (8/10 to 7/13),
PI: Dr. Ralph Henry; Co-PIs: Dr. TKS Kumar and Dr. Robyn Goforth.

National Institutes of Health (NIH), COBRE: “Center for Protein Structure and Function.”
Administrative Supplement for: “Exploring Novel Strategies to Prevent and Treat Viral
Infection.” $854,803 for 2 years (8/09 to 7/11), PI: Dr. Frank Millett; Co-PIs: Dr. Yuchun Du,
Dr. TKS Kumar, and Dr. Robyn Goforth; Dr. Ralph Henry, mentor. (Press Release in University
of Arkansas’ Newswire.)

Department of Energy (DOE), “Protein Targeting to the Chloroplast Thylakoid Membrane:
Structure of a chloroplast signal recognition particle.” $450,000 for 3 years (8/07 to 7/10),
PI: Dr. Ralph Henry; Co-PIs: Dr. TKS Kumar and Dr. Robyn Goforth. (Press Release in University of Arkansas’ Newswire.)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education (HHMI), “Undergraduate Research Center in Nanobiology.” $1,501,315 for 4 years (9/06 to 8/10), PI:
Dr. Donald Bobbitt; Co-PIs: Dr. Gregory Salamo, Dr. David Paul, Dr. Roger Koeppe, Dr. Ralph
Henry. (Press Release in University of Arkansas’ Newswire.)

National Science Foundation (NSF), “Efficient Bioseparation by Intertwining Strain,
Chromatography and Affinity Tail Design.” $494,602 for 3 years (5/06 to 4/09), PI: Dr. Bob
Beitle; Co-PI: Dr. Ralph Henry. (Press Release in University of Arkansas’ Newswire.)

National Institutes of Health (NIH), COBRE: “Center for Protein Structure and Function.”
$10,200,000 for 5 years (10/05 to 9/10), PI: Dr. Frank Millett; Dr. Robyn Goforth is
Subproject-PI for cornerstone project (one of five featured in COBRE grant) titled “Protein
Targeting” along with Dr. TKS Kumar (Co-PI); Dr. Ralph Henry, mentor. (Press Release in
University of Arkansas’ Newswire.)

Department of Energy (DOE), “Protein Targeting to the Chloroplast Thylakoid Membrane:
Structure of a chloroplast signal recognition particle.” $360,000 for 3 years (8/04 to 7/07),
PI: Dr. Ralph Henry; Co-PI: Dr. Chin Yu.

Arkansas BioSciences Institute (ABI), “Instrumentation for Automated Recombinant Protein
Purification.” $185,000 for 1.5 years (8/04 to 12/05), PI: Dr. Ralph Henry; Co-PIs: Dr. Joshua
Sakon, Dr. Chin Yu, Dr. Roger Koeppe, and Dr. Frank Millett.

Arkansas BioSciences Institute (ABI), “Instrumentation for Recombinant Protein Production
in High Density Fed Batch Culture.” $160,244 for 1.5 years (1/04 to 5/05), PIs: Dr. Ralph
Henry and Dr. Bob Beitle; Contributors: Dr. David McNabb, Dr. Mack Ivey, Dr. Joshua Sakon,
Dr. Chin Yu, Dr. Roger Koeppe, Dr. Frank Millett, Dr. Dan Davis, and Dr. Robert Gawley.

Arkansas BioSciences Institute (ABI), “Development of Electrosensors for Detection of
Saxitoxin.” $125,000 for 1.5 years (1/04 to 5/05), PI: Dr. Robert Gawley; Co-PIs: Dr. Ingrid
Fritsch and Dr. Ralph Henry.

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH), Development of “Therapeutic
Methamphetamine Antibodies from Plants.” $1,242,211 for 5 years (9/01 to 8/06). PI: Dr.
Ralph Henry; Co-PIs for this project of the program grant are Dr. Christine Farrance and Dr.
Joshua Sakon (U of A). Dr. Mike Owens (UAMS) is the PI for the Program Project titled
“Preclinical Testing of Antibody Therapy for (+)METH Abuse” (total $5,522,972).

Department of Energy (DOE), “Protein Targeting to the Chloroplast Thylakoid Membrane:
Structure of a chloroplast signal recognition particle.” $288,000 for 3 years (8/01 to 7/04),
PI: Dr. Ralph Henry; Co-PI: Dr. Joshua Sakon.

National Institutes of Health (NIH), COBRE: “Center for Protein Structure and Function.”
$9,631,312 for 5 years (10/00 to 9/05). PI: Dr. Frank Millett; Dr. Ralph Henry is PI for
cornerstone project (one of five featured in COBRE grant) titled “Protein Targeting” along with
Dr. Joshua Sakon (Co-PI). (Press Release in University of Arkansas’ Newswire.)

National Science Foundation (NSF), “Molecular and Biological Engineering of Plant-derived
Antibodies.” $498,920 ($997,840 with matching funds from the state of Arkansas) for 2 years
beginning July 1999. PI: Dr. Mike Owens (UAMS); Co-PIs: Dr. Ralph Henry and Dr. Brad Murphy
(U of A). U of A’s portion of the grant $247,000 from NSF (plus an additional $247,000 from
state match.)

National Science Foundation (NSF), “Function of a chloroplast signal recognition particle in
protein targeting and integration.” $331,500 for 3 years (8/98 to 7/01). PI: Dr. Ralph Henry.

Arkansas Science and Technology Association (ASTA), “Protein targeting to the thylakoid
membrane.” $44,000 for 1 year 5/98 to 5/99. PI: Dr. Ralph Henry.