June 29, 2021 ACMAP Conference 2021 – Three abstracts and one presentation delivered The 10th annual conference for the American Council For Medicinally Active Plants was on June 24-25 2021. You can read more about the ...Read more
May 23, 2021 Congratulations to Mirielle for receiving the UIC Award for Graduate Research Mirielle Nauman receives research award from the graduate college ...Read more
May 21, 2021 Jacob Veenstra accepted a Post Doc fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Congratulations to Jacob Veenstra for completing his PHD and starting a new position at the University of Pittsburgh. Jacob will be joining ...Read more
May 18, 2021 Mirielle Nauman receives T32 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Congratulations to Mirielle Nauman for receiving a T32 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship to support her thesis work on evaluating mangosteen fruit for ...Read more
April 29, 2021 Jacob Veenstra completes his PhD in Pharmacognosy Congratulations to Jacob Veenstra for successfully defending his PhD in Pharmacognosy on April 21, 2021! The title of Jacob’s thesis is ...Read more
April 4, 2021 Are there ways to optimize doxorubicin for cancer patients? – New Paper Doxorubicin is a chemotherapy drug that was originally isolated from Streptomyces peucetius var. caesius in the 1970’s and has been ...Read more
April 4, 2021 Welcome Rocio Rivera Rodriguez – New Graduate student in our group! We are excited to share that Rocio will be joining the lab as a new graduate student. She first visited UIC in 2019 as a part of our Summer ...Read more
March 27, 2021 Can rosemary extract be beneficial for colitis? – New Paper In a recent paper we describe how rosemary extract, an approved food preservative in the European Union, has the potential to treat colitis ...Read more
February 27, 2021 Can phytochemicals from mangosteen fruit improve gastrointestinal health – new paper We recently published a paper describing how the mangosteen fruit (Garcinia mangostana) has anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative properties ...Read more
January 27, 2021 New publication on Plant derived Natural Products and Proteomics Plants are well known to contain a variety of polyphenols with electrophilic functional groups. These phytochemicals can covalently modify ...Read more
