Huntsville, Ala. ---- 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.
In 2007, AAMU’s Food Science graduate students won three of the four awards presented—capturing 1st, 3rd and 4th places, said Verghese. In 2006, AAMU student researchers won 4 of the 5 awards in the Division (1,3,4 and 5th places) and, in 2005, researchers won the 1st and 3rd places (2 of the 3) in the same competition.
IFT’s Nutrition Division is its largest division. The IFT strives to select the “best of the best” papers/abstracts each year, and the review and judging are very stringent.
Posted By: Jehan Bunch
Thursday, July 31st 2008 at 4:05PM
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