BotanyCassandra Quave
2007 The Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany
Cassandra L. Quave, Florida International University. Her study includes the Anti-pathogenic activity of natural products from Italian medicinal plants against MRSA. She plans to evaluate plants she has collected from ethnobotanical healers in Italy against multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureau, a pathogen that has become increasing difficult to control with existing antibiotics. She is using an innovative approach, called quorum sensing, to study how these bacteria make film-like colonies that are difficult for traditional antibiotics to penetrate.
The Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany
To protect, preserve, and expand knowledge about the medicinal use of plants, thus preventing the disappearance of plants with therapeutic potential. Providing this research opportunity for botanists can, in turn, assist medical science to develop therapies that improve the quality of life of patients and develop life-saving medicines.
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