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NIH Funds 5 Botanical Research Centers
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The NIH announced the 5 Botanical Research Centers to each be funded at $1.5 million per year for the next 5 years. The funding is being provided by the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), with the National Cancer Institute providing funding to two of the centers. To see the NIH press release, click here.
This is the third 5-year cycle for this program, with 3 of the centers continuing from the prior cycle. The centers will study botanical and metabolic syndrome, botanical supplements and women's health, botanical estrogens, botanical interactions and pathways, and botanical lipids for inflammation and immunity.
The institutions running the centers include Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Missouri, and Wake Forest University.
For complete details about each Botanical Research Center, click here.
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