Food as Medicine Functional Food Plants of Africa Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals Series
Auteur : Iwu Maurice M.
Maurice M. Iwu (M. Pharm., Ph.D. Bradford) was a Professor of Pharmacognosy at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, and a Senior Research Associate at the Division of Experimental Therapeutics of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington D.C. He is the President of Bioresources Development Group (BDG), an African-based independent biosciences research and development organization that cultivates, processes and produces medicines and cosmetics from natural products.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals Plc (formerly Pfizer Nigeria). He is the founder and chairman of Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme (BDCP), Bioresources Institute of Nigeria (BION), Intercedd Health Products (IHP) and the International Centre for Ethnomedicine and Drug Development (InterCEDD). He was the Vice President, Research and Development at Tom’s of Maine. Prof. Iwu has received many academic and professional honors, including the World Health Organization (WHO) Visiting Scholar at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford (1980), Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio and the Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York (1983); Senior Research Scholar Award, U.S. National Research Council, Washington D.C. (1993 – 1995) and the Richard Schultz International Prize for Ethnobiology (1999). Commendation and tribute at the United States House of Representative, 106th Congress (2002). He was awarded the Doctor of Letters degree (Honoraris Causa) of Imo State University, Nigeria (2009).
He has presented over 300 scientific papers, published more than 200 research articles and is the author of four books, including the highly cited "Handbook of African Medicinal Plants" (First Edition 1994; Second Edition 2014) published by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. He is the Series Editor of the Elsevier Science Series "Advances in Phytomedicine". He is also a member of the E
Date de parution : 11-2016
17.8x25.4 cm
Thèmes de Food as Medicine :
Mots-clés :
Garcinia Kola; functional; Functional Foods; vernonia; Bitter Kola; amygdalina; T2 Dm; garcinia; Volatile Oil; kola; Essential Oil; alligator; Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; pepper; Xylopia Aethiopica; cocoa; Cocoa Polyphenols; polyphenols; Kolaviron; mucuna; Vernonia Amygdalina; Gut Microbiota; DNA Methylation; IG; Aloe Emodin; CP Extract; Histone Modications; Dietary Ber; Green Tea Intake; Stem Bark; Solanum Aethiopicum; FMD; Epigenetic Drift; African Names; SIRT1