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
November 15, 2020 Restituto Tocmo receives award during 2020 UIC COP research day for mangosteen research Congratulations Resty! Restituto Tocmo, a post-doctoral fellow received the Lundbeck Award for Excellence in Research (2nd Place) in ...Read more
November 14, 2020 Jacob Veenstra receives award during 2020 UIC COP research for rosemary research Congratulations Jacob! Jacob Veenstra, a PhD student in the pharmacognosy program, received the AAPS Student Chapter Choice Award (2nd Place ...Read more
September 12, 2020 Does piperine from black pepper increase the absorption of resveratrol in people? In a new paper just published we describe the results of our double blind randomized controlled human clinical trial to determine if piperine ...Read more