To promote a collaborative and interactive research environment to develop an internationally recognized center of excellence in the area of botanicals and mechanisms of metabolic disease.

To identify and further study botanicals with potential efficacy in metabolic syndrome, to identify their bioactive constituents, to standardize and optimize those botanicals,  to provide necessary preclinical and mechanisms of action data, and to translate the foregoing findings into clinical studies in humans.
To expand the critical mass of investigators addressing botanical research by identifying, recruiting and mentoring promising young investigators

 

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