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Herbal industry icon Varro Tyler passed away August 22 in his home in West Lafayette, IN, at age 74. With his death, the nutraceuticals industry has lost a true giant in the field of pharmacognosy and herbal medicine education in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Tyler maintained a distinguished career in academia, serving as the dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences at Purdue University for 20 years and executive vice president for Academic Affairs and provost at Purdue for five years before retiring several years ago. He held the Lilly Distinguished Chair in Pharmacognosy and still remained active at Purdue as dean and distinguished professor of pharmacognosy emeritus.