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Medicinal Plant Monograph Student Project Updated
The Medicinal Plant Monograph E-Book and video presentations have been updated with 18 new contributions from students enrolled in Dr. Quave’s Botanical Medicine and Health course at Emory University. Click on the links to learn more about some important medicinal plants. Each monograph provides a thorough review of the scientific…
Student research on food and health strategies among Asian immigrant communities in Atlanta
See this new post about the work of Sandy Jiang, an Emory undergraduate, who recently completed a summer research project with Dr. Quave at the Center for the Study of Human Health.
Dr. Quave featured on Emory blog
http://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2012/08/her-patient-approach-to-health-tapping.html
New Review Paper on Medical Ethnobotany in Europe published
July 31st, 2012. A new review paper by Dr. Cassandra Quave, Dr. Manuel Pardo de Santayana, and Dr. Andrea Pieroni was published today in Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The paper, entitled “Medical Ethnobotany in Europe: From Field Ethnography to a More Culturally Sensitive Evidence-Based CAM?”, can be accessed…
PhytoTEK awarded Georgia Research Alliance Venture Lab grant
July 20th, 2012. PhytoTEK LLC, the start-up biotech company co-founded by Dr. Cassandra Quave and Mr. Sahil Patel, was awarded a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Venture Lab Phase IA award in the amount of $25,000 for the proposal “Anti-infectives for Companion Animals”. The aims of this project are to pursue…
Quave & collaborators awarded research grant from the National Institutes of Health
A grant proposal entitled “Mechanistic Studies on Staphylococcal Quorum Quenching Natural Products” has been selected for funding under the R01 mechanism from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the US National Institutes of Health. The five year research project, totaling $1.829 million dollars, will be led by…
Photos from the Field: Human Health Studies in the Balkans
Dr. Quave has just completed a field study in NE Albania collaboration with Dr. Andrea Pieroni, from the University of Gastronomic Sciences (Italy). The scope of the study was to investigate traditional health practices, including the use of wild plants for food and medicine, in several small Albanian and Gorani…
Controversies and Challenges in Bioprospecting
New Op-ed out with colleagues Drs. Janna Rose and Gazi Islam in the Brazilian newspaper Terra: http://carosamigos.terra.com.br/index2/index.php/artigos-e-debates/2863-controversias-na-bioprospeccao-mundial
New E-book is posted
The newest version of the student-authored collection of Medicinal Plant Monographs is now available under the Teaching tab on the Etnobotanica website. This latest edition includes an additional 26 medicinal plant monographs written by my students enrolled at Emory University in the HLTH385-000 “Botanical Medicine and Health” course.
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Medicinal Plant Monograph Student Project Updated
The Medicinal Plant Monograph E-Book and video presentations have been updated with 18 new contributions from students enrolled in Dr. Quave’s Botanical Medicine and Health course at Emory University. Click on the links to learn more about some important medicinal plants. Each monograph provides a thorough review of the scientific…
Student research on food and health strategies among Asian immigrant communities in Atlanta
See this new post about the work of Sandy Jiang, an Emory undergraduate, who recently completed a summer research project with Dr. Quave at the Center for the Study of Human Health.
Dr. Quave featured on Emory blog
http://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2012/08/her-patient-approach-to-health-tapping.html
New Review Paper on Medical Ethnobotany in Europe published
July 31st, 2012. A new review paper by Dr. Cassandra Quave, Dr. Manuel Pardo de Santayana, and Dr. Andrea Pieroni was published today in Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The paper, entitled “Medical Ethnobotany in Europe: From Field Ethnography to a More Culturally Sensitive Evidence-Based CAM?”, can be accessed…
PhytoTEK awarded Georgia Research Alliance Venture Lab grant
July 20th, 2012. PhytoTEK LLC, the start-up biotech company co-founded by Dr. Cassandra Quave and Mr. Sahil Patel, was awarded a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Venture Lab Phase IA award in the amount of $25,000 for the proposal “Anti-infectives for Companion Animals”. The aims of this project are to pursue…
Quave & collaborators awarded research grant from the National Institutes of Health
A grant proposal entitled “Mechanistic Studies on Staphylococcal Quorum Quenching Natural Products” has been selected for funding under the R01 mechanism from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the US National Institutes of Health. The five year research project, totaling $1.829 million dollars, will be led by…
Photos from the Field: Human Health Studies in the Balkans
Dr. Quave has just completed a field study in NE Albania collaboration with Dr. Andrea Pieroni, from the University of Gastronomic Sciences (Italy). The scope of the study was to investigate traditional health practices, including the use of wild plants for food and medicine, in several small Albanian and Gorani…
Controversies and Challenges in Bioprospecting
New Op-ed out with colleagues Drs. Janna Rose and Gazi Islam in the Brazilian newspaper Terra: http://carosamigos.terra.com.br/index2/index.php/artigos-e-debates/2863-controversias-na-bioprospeccao-mundial
New E-book is posted
The newest version of the student-authored collection of Medicinal Plant Monographs is now available under the Teaching tab on the Etnobotanica website. This latest edition includes an additional 26 medicinal plant monographs written by my students enrolled at Emory University in the HLTH385-000 “Botanical Medicine and Health” course.
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