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The Garden is a partner, with UMC and the University of Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa, in The International Center for Indigenous Phytotherapy Studies (TICIPS), directed by Bill Folk (UMC) and Quinton Johnson (UWC), a new and unique project designed to test traditional South African herbal remedies in contexts ranging from in vitro assays to a clinical trial. With researchers from Washington University [Ming You] and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center [Karel Schubert], the Garden has also begun to study a set of Chinese herbs that have potential cancer-preventing effects. Likewise, researchers [Ikhlas Khan's lab] at the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi have collaborated with the Garden to explore chemical variation in plant materials ranging from wild ginger rhizomes to pumpkin seeds, and the Garden engages in field collections to support NCNPR's program of in vitro screening for potentially useful new compounds. These are only a portion of the many projects in which the Garden's taxonomic expertise, field experience and access to plant material work synergistically with the chemical or biomedical expertise brought to the table by our many collaborators to enhance our understanding of natural products. |
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