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Campus News, College of Arts & Sciences, Press Releases, Research - Monday, May 7, 2012 11:55 am
UNCG faculty member receives NIH grant to study echinacea
Dr. Nadja Cech, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UNCG, has received a grant of $444,658 from the National Institutes of Health for a study that will focus on “Unraveling Immunostimulatory and Immunosuppressive Effects of Echinacea purpurea.”
Echinacea constitutes a greater percentage of the multibillion dollar US dietary supplements industry than any other herbal medicines, with annual sales of more than $100 million, the study’s abstract notes: “A major goal of this project is to develop methods to produce Echinacea extracts with consistent, high anti-inflammatory activity. In so doing, we also seek to address a confounding factor in Echinacea research, which is that some immunostimulatory compounds may be produced by bacterial endophytes – microbes living asymptomatically within the Echinacea plant.”
Read more about the study on the Office of Research and Economic Development Office website.
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- White attends reception at Vice President’s Residence
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- Collecting memories of 9/11
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- Pubantz interviewed by High Point Enterprise
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- Glenn leads discussion of Tyler Perry movies Sept. 13
- Intellectual capitol: UNCG joins Folger Institute
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- Wagner, co-author write about Mladic arrest
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- Justice for war crimes fugitive
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- Interior architecture students design new exhibit for Greensboro Children’s Museum
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- McElveen-Hunter to UNCG grads: We keep what we give away
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- More than 2,500 will graduate at spring commencement May 4
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- UNCG faculty member receives NIH grant to study echinacea
- McElveen-Hunter to UNCG grads: We keep what we give away
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- NSF-funded music exhibit in Danville through Sept. 3
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