Author: Dr. Jeremy Johnson

Dr. Johnson received his PharmD and PhD at the University of Wisconsin where he also completed a clinical research fellowship evaluating phytochemicals and botanical extracts. He is an associate professor and licensed pharmacist he offers a unique perspective on the most current scientific literature related to the health and nutrition. His research program is active and has led to more than 50 publications and published abstracts related to the health promoting properties of natural products, phytochemicals and plant extracts. He has presented some of his research findings at international scientific meetings in the US, Italy, Austria, Israel, France, China, Philippines and Turkey.

June 29, 2021

ACMAP Conference 2021 – Three abstracts and one presentation delivered

The 10^th annual conference for the American Council For Medicinally Active Plants was on June 24-25 2021.

You can read more about the

May 23, 2021

Congratulations to Mirielle for receiving the UIC Award for Graduate Research

Mirielle Nauman receives research award from the graduate college

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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