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Presentations
1. Ginger and orange peel extracts inhibit pro-inflammatory genes (COX-2 and iNOS) in mouse macrophage (RAW 264.7) cell line. Annual meeting of Institute of Food Technologist, New Orleans, July 16-20, 2005.
2. Invited Speaker at the 62nd Annual American College of Advancement in Medicine’s International Educational Conference on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine (CAIM) scientific conference at San Diego, November 19-21, 2004).
3. Modulation of transcription factors in antioxidant mechanisms using nutraceuticals-nutragenomic approach at the cellular level. Invited speaker at 228 th American Chemical Society National meeting at Philadelphia, August 22-26, 2004.
4. “Update on Herbals-Interaction”, Grand Rounds talk at Department of Medicine for Full time Faculty, community physicians, specialists and generalists, medical residents, students, nurses and Pharmacist at St. Peters’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, May 11, 2004.
5. Nutrigenomics in Health & Disease, Invited speaker at Nutrigenomics and Nutritional genomics: A Whole New World, at 6th Annual Ambulatory Nutrition Conference on April 2, 2004 at NewYork_Presbyterian, The University Hospitals of Columbia and Cornell, NY. (6 Continuing Education Credits requested from the Commission on Dietetic Registration).
6. Nutragenomics studies to target over expressed proteins in cancer using nutraceuticals, 4 th International Conference and Exhibition on Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, Worldnutra, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, Sept 29-October 1. Chairperson of session and invited speaker on the session “Nutragenomics and Angiogenesis”.
7. Targeting COX-2 and iNOS gene expression in inflammation using a diarylheptanoids from Lesser galangal. 226 th Annual Meeting of American Chemical Society, New York, September 7-11, 2003, Invited symposium speaker.
8. Cytotoxic and Bcl-2 phosphorylating molecules from a Chinese medicinal flower (Inula Britannica). 224 th American Chemical Society meeting, 2002 at Boston, MA, August 18-22.
9. Targeting overexpressed proteins in cancers using Nutraceuticals. First National Conference on Nutragenomics, 2002 at Cook College, NJ, May 13. Chairperson of the conference.
10. Novel compound isolated from Vietnamese coriander induces bcl-2 phosphorylation and apoptosis in cancer cell lines. Experimental Biology, 2002 at New Orleans, LA, April 20-24.
11. Bcl-2 phosphorylating molecules from Vietnamese Coriander. 223 rd ACS National meeting, 2002, Orlando, FL. April 7-11.
12. Nutragenomics: Development of Future Foods ? Invited speaker in CAFT meeting for Industrial Monitors, October 31, 2001 at New Brunswick. NJ.
13. Britannilactone, a Novel derivative from Inula Brittannica is cytotoxic through the phosphorylation of Bcl-2 at a paclitaxel phosphorylation site. Invited speaker in joint ACS-JsoFF meeting at San Diego, 2001, April 1.