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Pharmanex Scientific Advisory Board
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Pharmanex Scientific Advisory Board is actively involved in clinical research
and product development. In addition, Pharmanex currently has 76 PhD/MD scientists
on staff and more than 150 collaborating scientists at leading academic centers
around the world, creating a product development engine unparalleled in the
marketplace.
United States – Advisory Board: |
The "father of the
birth control pill," Carl Djerassi, Ph.D., Chairman of the Pharmanex
Scientific Advisory Board, is both an internationally renowned chemist and a
prolific writer, not only of scientific works but also of best-selling fiction
and two autobiographical works: From the Lab into the World : A Pill for
People, Pets, and Bugs (Creators of Modern Chemistry) and The Pill, Pygmy
Chimps, and Degas' Horse/the Remarkable Autobiography of the Award-Winning
Scientist Who Synthesized the Birth Control Pill. A Stanford University
professor of chemistry, he has written more than 1,200 scientific publications
and seven monographs. The recipient of numerous scientific honors, he is one of
the few Americans to have received both the National Medal of Science (for
creating the first steroid oral contraceptive) and the National Medal of
Technology (for promoting new approaches to insect control). Dr. Djerassi has
also been awarded 17 honorary doctorates and many other prestigious honors,
such as the first Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the first Award for the Industrial
Application of Science from the National Academy of Sciences, and the American
Chemical Society's highest award, the Priestly Medal. His fiction works, mostly
in the genre of "science-in-fiction," illustrate the human side of
scientists and the personal conflicts they face. His Djerassi Resident Artists
Program, founded in 1982, has assisted more than 1000 persons in the visual
arts, literature, choreography, performing arts and music. |
Georges Halpern, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of California Davis, and Visiting
Professor, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
The author of Cordyceps: China's Healing Mushroom and of Ginkgo: A Practical
Guide, Georges Halpern, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., has written 12 books, 50 book
chapters, 118 original research papers and hundreds of scientific reviews and
abstracts. Dr. Halpern serves the Pharmanex Scientfic Advisory Board in the U.S.
and Hong Kong. He is a Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Nutrition, University
of California, Davis, and Visiting Professor in the School of Traditional
Chinese Medicine, University of Hong Kong. He has worked and/or lectured in 71
countries and is recognized worldwide for his many contributions to the field of
medicine. Born a French citizen in Warsaw, Poland, he grew up in Paris, where he
attended the Sorbonne, then received his medical degree from the Faculty of
Medicine of Paris. He received his Ph.D./D.Sc. degree, with highest honors and
jury honors, from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Paris-South. Dr.
Halpern is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (London) and of 26 other
prestigious national, foreign and international academies and scientific
societies. Dr. Halpern is also widely recognized for his gourmet cooking, for
which he has won various awards |
Barbara Hansen, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology, Director of Obesity & Diabetes Research Center,
University of Maryland School of Medicine
A leading authority and
lecturer on the relationships between overweight and diabetes, Barbara C.
Hansen, Ph.D. is a professor of physiology at the University of Maryland School
of Medicine and director of the university's Obesity and Diabetes Research
Center. Dr. Hansen is interested in preventing and treating these disorders,
through her research into causes from the perspective of defective conditions
in the body, its cells and even its molecules. For more than a dozen years, her
research group has been conducting a study to see if a weight-control regimen
can prevent middle-age diabetes and extend life span. Dr. Hansen is a member of
the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She has served
as an advisor and consultant to many other leading scientific societies and
organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation and the National Institute for Environmental Health
Sciences. An author of more than 100 scientific papers, her new book, released
by the American Diabetes Association, is A Common Sense Guide to Weight Loss
for People with Diabetes. She holds B.S. (summa cum laude, valedictorian) and
M.S. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in
physiology and psychology from the University of Washington.
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Lester Mitscher, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Kansas
Green tea has been found to
contain the strongest of all known antioxidants, in research by Lester A.
Mitscher, Ph.D., at the University of Kansas, where he is University
Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, and former chairman
of that department. Dr. Mitscher found in some studies that the antioxidant
EGCG, a substance in green tea, neutralized free radicals over 100 times more
effectively than vitamin C, and 25 times better than vitamin E. Free radicals
are believed to cause cell damage that triggers certain diseases, especially
cancer. When Dr. Mitscher tested green, black, and oolong teas for
antioxidants, he observed that green teas had by far the highest amounts of
active EGCG, and he believes that is because it is harvested at the right time
and immediately steamed. Dr. Mitscher holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Wayne
University, Detroit. In addition to Dr. Mitscher's work in academia, he has
held research and consulting positions with major pharmaceutical firms. He has
published extensively on drug chemistry, antibiotic synthesis and non-tradition
medicine. He has written numerous scientific papers and recently co-authored
The Green Tea Book - China's Fountain of Youth. |
Koji Nakanishi, Ph.D.
Centennial Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University
The very first research on
ginkgo biloba, 30 years ago, was the work of Prof. Koji Nakanishi, Ph.D., who
isolated the active component of ginkgo extract. A scientist described as one
who has "transformed the field of natural products chemistry," Dr.
Nakanishi is not only one of the most honored in his field but also the mentor
of so many others that a list of his former students reads like a Who's Who in
research. In 1999, a group of these scientists published The Biology -
Chemistry Interface: A Tribute to Koji Nakanishi, co-edited by Ray Cooper,
Ph.D., Pharmanex Executive Director, Research and Scientific Affairs. Professor
Nakanishi has been on the faculty of Columbia University's Department of
Chemistry for 30 years, is a former chairman of the department and since 1980
has held the title of Centennial Professor. In what has been referred to as
"an extraordinarily productive career," he has opened the doors to
fuller understanding of natural products by determining the chemical structure
of nearly 200 bioactive compounds and how they function to affect human, plant
and animal life. He has been given awards by nearly a dozen nations and
numerous scientific organizations. In an unusual international alliance, a
major prize was named for him; the Nakanishi Prize of the American Chemical
Society and the Chemical Society of Japan. He has published 700 scientific
papers and written nine books, including an autobiography, A Wandering Natural
Products Scientist (1991). And, when Dr. Nakanishi appears to receive an award
or present a scientific paper, the audience usually is in for an added treat -
his famous talents as an accomplished magician. |
James Rippe, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
An internationally renowned
cardiologist and leading authority on health, fitness and weight loss, James
Rippe, M.D., supervises the Pharmanex Institute for Cardiovascular Health and
Sports Nutrition at Tufts University, Boston. He is also Director of the Center
for Clinical and Lifestyle Research and Associate Professor of Medicine
(Cardiology) at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Rippe is interested in
the practical aspects of health that help make fitness more accessible by
motivation, through simplifying it and making it as interesting, pleasurable
and painless as possible. He is the author of over 200 academic publications
and 12 medical texts, plus 8 books on health and fitness for the general
public. A well-known advocate of health strategies for athletes and older
persons, his books include Fit Over Forty, The Exercise Exchange Program and
The Rockport Walking Program. He has worked with baseball legend Nolan Ryan,
figure skating gold medalist Peggy Fleming and the American Association of Retired
Persons. An honors graduate of Harvard and its Medical School, he received
numerous honors in health and fitness and is frequently quoted in the media for
his lively, positive and knowledgeable approach to a healthier life style.
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Chi-Huey Wong, Ph.D.
Ernest W. Hahn Professor of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
An
award-winning organic chemist trained in both Eastern and Western science,
Chi-Huey Wong, Ph.D., is Ernest W. Hahn Professor of Chemistry at the Scripps
Research Institute, La Jolla, California. Prof. Wong serves Pharmanex
Scientific Advisory Boards, not only in the U.S., but also in Taiwan at the
Academia Sinica, where he heads the Bioorganic Chemistry lab and holds the title
of Distinguished Chair in Chemistry.
A native of
Taiwan and a graduate of its National University, Prof. Wong holds a Ph.D. from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a postdoctoral fellow at
Harvard. His honors include the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope
Scholar Award, International Carbohydrate Award, Enzyme Engineering Award and
the Presidential Young Investigator Award. He recently presented his work at
the Nobel Symposium on catalytic asymmetric synthesis. He is the author of more
than 400 peer-reviewed scientific papers and holds 60 patents on his
discoveries.
Dr. Wong's
principal research interests are in carbohydrate chemistry and how chemistry
can be used to modify enzymes to increase or decrease enzymatic function and
create better biologically active compounds. The work of his research group
thus has major implications for improving human health with safer and more
effective substances, such as natural products of biomedical importance.
Dr. Wong was elected April
30, 2002 to the National Academy of Sciences, membership in which is considered
one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Click here |
Lester Packer, Ph.D.
Dr. Lester
Packer, the world's foremost antioxidant research scientist, received his Ph.D.
in Microbiology and Biochemistry from Yale University and has been a Professor
and Senior Researcher at the University of California at Berkeley for the past
40 years. Most recently, Dr. Packer has established an additional research
laboratory in the Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology & Toxicology within the
School of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California to pursue studies related
to the molecular, cellular, and physiological aspects of free radical and
antioxidant metabolisms in biological systems.
In addition to
his membership in more than a dozen professional research societies, Dr. Packer
has held offices as President of the International Society of Free Radical
Research, President of the Oxygen Club of California, and Vice-President of
UNESCO - the United Nations Global Network on Molecular and Cell Biology.
Dr. Packer is
also the recipient of numerous scientific achievement awards and serves on
editorial advisory boards for scientific journals related to biochemistry,
antioxidant metabolism and nutrition.
Dr. Packer has
published over 700 scientific papers and 70 books on every aspect of
antioxidants and health, including the standard references "Vitamin E in
Health and Disease", "Vitamin C in Health and Disease",
"The Handbook of Natural Antioxidants" and "Understanding the
Process of Aging: The Roles of Mitochondria, Free Radicals, and
Antioxidants".
The
Antioxidant Miracle, published in 1999 by John Wiley & Sons, is his first
book for non-scientists.
Dr. Lester Packer has an
unmatched scientific record on antioxidants, now considered key components in
achieving healthy aging and extending human life. |
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