Scientific Methods & Projects

Phytochemistry & Phytopharmacy

• Botanical Research in the UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research in Women's Health, a multidisciplinary and collaborative effort to address standardization, quality, safety, and efficacy of botanical dietary supplements
• Pharmacognosy: Modern phytochemical analysis paired with biological evaluation of natural products and "small" molecules

Metabolome Analysis

• Research on the metabolome of non-replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Institute for Tuberculosis Research at UIC
• Development of biochemomentrics for the analysis of complex bioactive natural products such as botanicals and ethnobotanicals

Chromatography & Spectroscopy

• Development of separation regimens for the analysis of complex natural products
• Method development and application of countercurrent and partition chromatography; adsorption and gel chromatography
• NMR spectroscopy, quantitative NMR (qNMR), mass spectrometry, structure dereplication through HNMR fingerprinting

Biological Activity & Bioassay

• In vitro bioassay Methods for anti-TB drug discovery and standardization of dietary supplements
• Analysis of the active principles of botanicals used in women's health for their estrogenic, serotonergic or chemopreventive properties