(AAMU release) Two Alabama A&M University graduate students conducting research in the area of dietary chemoprevention of colon cancer recently received an award for their work by the Chicago-based Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) at the recent 2008 Annual IFT Meeting in New Orleans.
Reuel Field (2nd place) and Vishnupriya Gourineni (3rd place), both graduate student researchers in AAMU’s Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory, studied the use of phytochemicals, neutraceuticals and functional foods and reported on their relationship to colon cancer. The student researchers are advised by Dr. Martha Verghese, a professor of nutritional biochemistry and interim chair of the Department of Food and Animal Sciences. Student researcher Field is being supported by the Title III Program.
The two AAMU students competed against students from Cornell University, Purdue University, Rutgers, North Carolina State Ohio State University, University of Georgia and other institutions of higher education.
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