BotanyMatthew Bond
2015 The Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany
Matthew Bond is a Ph.D. student in the Botany Department of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. He will conduct ethno-botanical fieldwork in a less-studied region of the Solomon Islands, North Malaita, to study how the local people select, prepare, and consume plants for medicine. Mathew has made previous visits to build relationships, obtain and apply for permits, and learn local languages. He will be collecting samples and will analyze medicinal plant harvesting practices of traditional healers’ to test if the local people are using the plants and plant parts that are most effective for treating disease.
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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