06.01.05
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), along with the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, will fund five university-based dietary supplement research centers. The focus of the new funding will be directed toward determining the mechanisms of action of these preparations and their active phytochemical constituents. The five centers that will receive these funds include: (1) Botanical Center for Age-Related Diseases at Purdue University, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Rutgers University; (2) Botanical Dietary Supplements for Women’s Health Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, IL (UIC); (3) Botanicals and Metabolic Syndrome at Pennington Biomedical Research Center of Louisiana State University System and Center of Agriculture and the Environment of Rutgers University; (4) MSKCC Research Center for Botanical Immunomodulators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, The Rockefeller University, the Institute of Chinese Medicine and the Chinese University; and (5) Wake Forest and Harvard Center for Botanical Lipids at Wake Forest University and Harvard University.