14th International Conference on
Natural Products and Traditional Medicine

Dr. Randy Burd is an Associate Professor at Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, AZ, USA. Randy Burd received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo/Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA

Dr. Randy Burd current research interests include improving tumor radiation response, metabolism, cytokine stimulation and prostaglandin production, and affect aspects of tumor development, growth and treatment response.

Dr. Freeland-Graves is the Bess Helfin Professor and Head of the Division of Nutritional Sciences. She received a Ph.D. in Nutrition from Rutgers University. She has been an assistant, associate and full professor, graduate advisor, associate chairman, and chairman of the Department of Human Ecology.

Dr. Freeland-Graves research has centered on mineral requirements and metabolism in humans (particularly manganese), obesity, vegetarianism and osteoporosis.

Dr. Dorothy J. Klimis-Zacas is a Professor of Clinical Nutrition at Department of Food Science & Nutrition, University of Maine, USA. Dr. Dorothy J. Klimis-Zacas received his Ph.D. from the The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA

Dr. Dorothy J. Klimis-Zacas areas of research are health aspects of blueberries, effect of blueberries on arterial Glycosaminoglycan composition, metabolism and structure.

Dr. Mary Ellen Camire is a Professor of Food Science & Human Nutrition at Department of Food Science & Nutrition, University of Maine, USA. Dr. Mary Ellen Camire received his Ph.D. from the Texas Woman’s University, Denton, USA.

Dr. Mary Ellen Camire areas of research are food processing, product development, dietary fiber methodology.

Dr. Shuxia Wang is an Associate Professor in Pharmacology & Nutritional Sciences in the University of Kentucky, USA. Dr. Shuxia Wang received his Ph.D. degree from Peking Union Medical College, China and completed his postdoctoral from University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.

Dr. Shuxia Wang research focus has been on the role of matricellular protein-thrombospondin1 (TSP1) in metabolic and cardiovascular and renal diseases. Dr. Shuxia Wang current research in lab focuses on the novel role of TSP1 in obesity and obesity induced metabolic disorders. We also study the important role of cGMP/PKG pathway in the development of obesity and its associated metabolic syndrome using PKG transgenic mice generated in my lab. .