ITP on Natural Products Course Information
Please use the links below to learn more about the Rutgers 2008 ITP on Natural Products Coures. PDF versions of the course description and Registration forms are also available to download.
Please use the links below to learn more about the Rutgers 2008 ITP on Natural Products Coures. PDF versions of the course description and Registration forms are also available to download.
Mr. Steven Foster, medicinal and aromatic plant specialist, writer, lecturer, and photographer as well as an international consultant to growers, researchers, and others in the medicinal and aromatic industries. One of the nations leading experts and authors on American medicinal plants, Mr. Foster's expertise on botanical identification, traditional uses of herbs and medicinals and models to conserve our medicinal plant heritage while developing sustainable approaches to their commercialization will be featured. Foster is also internationally known for his photography of botanicals, medicinal and native plants.
Dr. Ramu Govindasamy, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Food Resource Economics, Rutgers University. Dr. Govindasamy's expertise is in agricultural economics and marketing from the development of base-line survey, community participation, crop budgets and economic analysis of new crop enterprises. His work in the USA on ethnic produce, on organic agriculture and niche products compliments his international experience within the ASNAPP team evaluating new MAPs for rural community development in sub-Sahara Africa. Linking product development to the market and using a market-first approach is one of his approaches to commercial development.
Dr. H. Rodolfo Juliani, Rutgers University. Director of Quality Assurance and Quality Control for Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Product Program (ASNAPP) and Associate Director of NUANPP. Dr. Juliani’s expertise is in the areas of germplasm selection, plant physiology, chemistry (GC/MS/FID and UV Vis spectrophotometry), quality of medicinal and aromatic plants, and nutritional crops.
Dr. Adolfina Koroch, New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program, Rutgers. Dr. Koroch's expertise is in plant physiology and the biology of aromatic and medicinal plants. She has published extensively on using tissue culture to better examine the biology of MAPs and as a tool to select and improve germplasm and rapidly increase elite clones of MAPs.
Dr. James S. Miller, Dean and VP for Science, Rupert Barneby Curator for Botanical Sciences, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NYC, NY. Dr. Miller's expertise is in botanical taxonomy, the collection and search for new medicinal compounds, bioprospecting and IP issues surrounding the discovery of new bioactive agents. He has worked extensively in sub-Sahara Africa including Madagascar.
Prof. James E. Simon, Director of the New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program, Rutgers. Dr. Simon’s areas of expertise include plant genetic diversity, crop improvement, conservation, sustainable environmental and economic development using indigenous plants, phytochemistry, and quality control of botanicals and MAPs.
Dr. Qing-Li Wu, Assistant Research Professor and Associate Director of the New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program, Rutgers. A natural plant products chemist, Wu's expertise is in Traditional Chinese Medicines, natural products chemistry and in botanical standardization and authentication. As co-Director of NUANPP, Wu brings his expertise to the chemical characterizing of natural products using the latest analytical equipment and techniques including LC/UV/MS, MS/MS, NMR, and in the establishment of new analytical protocols and searching for new plant sources of known bioactive compounds.
Dr. Nathan Swami, Rutgers University and Xechem International. Dr. Nathan Swami, a microbiologist, has considerable expertise in searching for new antimicrobial agents from plants and fungi. His experience in searching for plants with new bioactive chemical entities from around the world has lead to his development of robust screening methodologies.