October 5, 2019 Mangosteen research presented at the 2019 GA conference in Austria In September 2019, I had the opportunity to give an oral presentation at the 67th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society ...Read more
September 14, 2019 Visit to Madonna Medical Center in Kidapawan City Philippines While in Kidapawan city I visited Madonna Medical Center and had an opportunity to present our research on the mangosteen. It was a great ...Read more
September 14, 2019 We selected some mangosteen trees in the Philippines for future studies I recently had the chance to visit Dr. Alfred Villarico’s mangosteen farm in Kidapawan. This farm is more than 80 acres with many of ...Read more
September 12, 2019 My first visit to Philippines – Manila to Davao City to Kidapawan City It was a long trek that took about 24 hours to go from Chicago to the Southern Philippines – but it was all worth it! After leaving ...Read more
August 9, 2019 Monica Haughan receives best poster at the UIC SURF/Riback Mini Symposium Monica Haughan was a UIC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow and spent the summer in our lab working on the Bergamot fruit. During her time ...Read more
July 12, 2019 Visit from the Mangosteen King of the Philippines – Dr. Alfred Villarico Recently, I received an email from a friend of Dr. Alfred asking if we could arrange for a time to meet in person while he was visiting the ...Read more
May 22, 2019 New Paper: Oregano as a food preservative and how it can help your GI tract Did you know that there are more than 60 plant species that are referred to as “oregano”? In a recent paper we published in the International ...Read more
February 28, 2019 New Paper: Review of the citrus fruit Bergamot for lowering cholesterol In a new paper out of our laboratory we describe the clinical use of Bergamot, a citrus fruit grown in southern Italy, as a natural way to ...Read more
January 18, 2019 New Grant – NCI funds $1.7 million for mangosteen research on cancer prevention For generations, traditional healers in Southeast Asia have used the mangosteen fruit to treat skin infections, wounds, dysentery and urinary ...Read more
August 18, 2018 New Paper – Carnosol from rosemary activates Nrf2 in colon cells In the European Union Rosemary Extract is approved as a natural food preservative and may have additional health benefits with it. The two ...Read more
