Scientific Advisory Board
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BIONOVIX, INC. Research and Development
The company is in the early stages of building a Scientific Advisory Board to assist us in establishing the direction of future research and product development, while serving as spokespersons for the science that underlies our existing products. To date, we have successfully recruited two of the most distinguished and active scientists in the area of isoprostane research:
L. Jackson Roberts II, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Roberts is an internationally renowned professor of Pharmacology and Medicine whose discovery of isoprostanes—compounds important in the measurement of free-radical damage—has given researchers the ability to reliably quantify oxidative stress. In the past 10 years, Roberts has given more than 50 invited presentations—including the keynote address at the First European Workshop on Isoprostanes—and authored more than 120 articles in referred journals. For his discovery of isoprostanes, the Society of Free Radical Biology and Medicine selected him for its Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Roberts was also presented with the Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research on August 24, 2006: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=28233
Jason D. Morrow, M.D., Chief of the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, F. Tremaine Billings Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Morrow is the Principal Investigator at the Jason D. Morrow Laboratory. The laboratory’s research focuses primarily on the biochemistry and pharmacology of isoprostanes. The importance of this work is that the isoprostanes exert potent biological activity and represent the most accurate method to assess oxidative stress status in vivo in humans, revolutionizing the examination of oxidant injury in disease processes. Dr. Morrow and Dr. Jackson were honored for their research on free radicals.
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy and Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University. Fred Stevens, Ph.D. focuses on causes on the interactions of biological antioxidants with lipid peroxidation products, which are formed through radical-mediated oxygenation of polyunsaturated lipids. He is interested in these interactions because lipid peroxidation contributes to the development and progression of chronic inflammatory and age-related diseases.
Assistant Faculty Professor at the College of Health and Human Sciences Oregon State University joins our Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Ho’s research interests Research interests are in the area of antioxidants and gene expression and dietary chemoprevention strategies. She is currently interested in understanding the role of the antioxidant nutrients such as zinc in maintaining DNA integrity and cancer development. Specifically, she is concerned with the effects of zinc status on DNA damage, DNA repair and stress-response signal pathways.
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