Dr. Elizabeth Hood, Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Technology, recently traveled to Prague, the Czech Republic, to present the invited keynote talk at the COST Action conference on plant molecular farming. Her talk, "Reducing the Regulatory Burden for Molecular Farming in the United States," examined proof-of-principle for Molecular Farming in order to move from research and development to develop product-oriented platforms, to enable new classes of products, to lower the costs and ultimately to make the products commercially viable. Plants dedicated to Molecular Farming will constitute new high-value crops, both in Europe and in the U.S. COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology. COST Action is an international group that is focused on commercializing research resulting from projects funded through the European Union Framework Programmes. Dr. Hood also serves on the steering committee of Battelle Technology Partnership Practice's Regional Strategy for Biobased Products in the Mississippi Delta.