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Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery from New England Plants
Plants have been used as traditional medicines for centuries and have provided several modern chemotherapeutic drugs such as Taxol (Paclitaxel). Currently, there are a number of un-investigated New England plants which offer an exciting opportunity for the discovery of new anticancer drugs. Our laboratory, the Bioactive Botanical Research Laboratory, has already collected several of these plants and have completed preliminary bioassays for anticancer activities. The objective of this project will be to conduct further evaluation of a selected plant extract using state-of-the art chemistry instrumentation and cell culture anticancer bioassays. This project may result in the identification of new and/or known chemical compounds with anti-cancer potential.
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RI-INBRE Newsletter Fall 2009

RI-INBRE Newsletter Fall 2009

Grant Workshop PowerPoint Presentations & Handouts

Balancing Teaching and Research at PUIs

Components of a Successful AREA (R15) Grant

NSF-RUI Program: Strategies and Tips for Success

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Important Dates

RI-INBRE Calendar

12/3//09 - Shahram Khademi, Ph.D, University of Iowa - "The structure and mechanism of ammonia channels"

12/4/09 - 4th Annual BioNES Meeting, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI

1/29/10 - RI-INBRE Research Fellows Meeting & Faculty Retreat, Providence College, Providence, RI

3/1/10 - Application Deadline for the 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships

6/16/10 - 6/18/10 National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence, Bethesda, MD

 Supported by grant #  P20RR016457 from:
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