Professor Eve Syrkin Wurtele of GDCB, along with Professor Basil Nikolau of BBMB and other colleagues at institutions around the country, have developed resources that may lead to the discovery of new, medicinally important compounds found in plants. The research data can be found at the Medicinal Plant Genomics Resource. The resources grew from their Medicinal Plant Consortium (MPC) research project funded by a $6 million initiative from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how the genes of plants contribute to production of various chemical compounds, some of which are medicinally important. This research was recently highlighted in an ISU News Service article.