Productivity in Natural Products
Research, Teaching & Service

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to natural products research, our team strives to achieve scientific and academic excellence in:

• Collaborative research and publication of research results, including publication of scientific articles and books
• Training of the future generations of natural products scientist graduate education, postgraduate mentoring and training
• Public service to the academic and health sciences communities
• Member of the PDQ® Editorial Board on Integrative, Alternative, and Complementary Therapies (IACT)
• Physician Data Query (PDQ®): The Comprehensive Database of the National Cancer Institute (NCI/NIH)
  • This Editorial Board consists of experts in the fields of oncology, pharmacology, natural products, drug discovery and development, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and homeopathy. The board meets quarterly to write and update information summaries on integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies for cancer
  • Active summaries include: Acupuncture, Aromatherapy With Essential Oils, Cannabis and Cannabinoids, Coenzyme Q10, High-Dose Vitamin C, Laetrile/Amygdalin, Medicinal Mushrooms, Milk Thistle, Mistletoe Extracts, Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements
• PDQ® Cancer Information Summaries: Integrative, Alternative, and Complementary Therapies
  • Provides Healthcare Professionals and Patients with summaries that are reviewed and updated constantly to reflect findings from recent research

Collaborative Research

The scientific research activities outlined under Science are carried out collaboratively, in laboratories located in the following units:

• UIC College of Pharmacy
  • Department of Phamaceutical Sciences
  • Institute for Tuberculosis Research
  • Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaeutical Sciences (PCRPS)
  • UIC WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine
  • UIC Center for Botanical Dietary Supplement Research
  • Center for Natural Products Technologies (CeNAPT)
• UIC College of Dentistry

Publications & Presentations

• A complete List of Publications can be found here
• Recordings of presentations can be found here

Teaching, Training & Mentoring

• Teaching in the Professional Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) Program at UIC's College of Pharmacy
• Teaching in the Graduate Program PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Training and mentoring of Ph.D. graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and research faculty
  • T32 - Training of PhD Students in the NCCIH/NIH T32 Training Grant program entitled "Research Training in Natural Product Complementary and Integrative Health"
  • K12 - Training of Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the IRDCDA K12 Postdoctoral Training grant
• Training in quantitative NMR
• Training in countercurrent separation

PhD Graduates from the Pauli Laboratory at UIC

• Ryan Hitzman, PhD (2021)
  • Dissertation "The Role of Botanicals and Their AhR-Active Compounds in Estrogen Chemical Carcinogenesis"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF]
• Mary Choules, PhD (2018)
  • Dissertation "Methodologies for the Discovery and Quality Control of Therapeutic Peptides"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF]
    Raw Data [Dataverse]: dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4BSFITI
• Yang Liu, PhD (2018)
  • Dissertation "Pharmacognostic Studies of Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF]
• Rasika Phansalkar, PhD (2017)
  • Dissertation "Metabolomic Methodology for Botanical Discovery and Standardization of Red Clover and Grape Seed Extracts"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF]
• Wei Gao, PhD (2014)
  • Dissertation "Discovery of In-Vivo Active Anti-Tuberculosis Peptides from Actinomycetes"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF]
• Rene Ramos, PhD (2014)
  • Dissertation "Methods for the Metabolomic Standardization of Natural Health Products"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF]
• Geping Cai, PhD (2014)
  • Dissertation "Closing the In Vitro/In Vivo Gap in Tuberculosis Drug Discovery"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF]
• Feng Qiu, PhD (2012)
  • Dissertation "The Complexity of Natural Products
    at the Chemistry‒Biology Interface"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF]
• Chang-Hwa Wang, PhD (2012)
  • Dissertation: "Anti-TB Drug Leads from Diverse Natural Sources"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF]
• Ayano Imai, PhD (2011)
  • Dissertation: "Pharmacognosy of Raw Materials for Black Cohosh Dietary Supplements"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF]
• Taichi Inui, PhD (2008)
  • Dissertation: "Phytochemical and biochemometric evaluation of the Alaskan anti-TB ethnobotanical Oplopanax horridus"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF; directlink to PDF file]
• Allison Turner, PhD (2006)
  • Dissertation: "The pharmacognosy of cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon) as a urological dietary supplement"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF; direct link to PDF file]
• Ryan Case, PhD (2006)
  • Dissertation: "Integrative pharmacognostic evaluation of anti-TB ethnobotanicals from Manus"
    [UIC INDIGO Repository with PDF; direct link to PDF file]
• Daniel Fabricant, PhD (2006)
  • Dissertation: "Pharmacognostic investigation of black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt.)" [link to PDF file]
• Shixin Deng, PhD (2005)
  • Dissertation: "Phtyochemical investigation of bioactive constituents from Angelica sinensis" [link to PDF file]
• Lucas Chadwick, PhD (2004)
  • Dissertation: "Estrogens and congeners from spent hops (Humulus lupulus) " [link to PDF file]

Prospective students: If you are interested in joining my research group as a student in the UIC Ph.D. Graduate Program in Pharmacognosy, you are encouraged to download the PDFs of the dissertations of the graduates and our publications to get insights into the techniques used and the type of research carried out in my laboratory. Please note that the dissertations examplify graduate research proejct rather than provideing full coverage of all ongoing research activities.

Service

National & International Scientific Community

• Active support of the peer-review process of federal funding agencies as well as scientific journals in the area of natural products science, pharmacognosy, pharmaceutical biology, phytochemistry, NMR, microbiology, chemical and pharmaceutical analysis, and chromatography
• Member of the Experts Committee on Dietary Supplements of the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP)
• Service to professional societies and their journals, as well as on-line publication of scientific content
  • American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP), which co-publisheds the Journal of Natural Products (JNP) together with the American Chemical Society (ACS)
    ASP Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer (2005-2014)
    JNP Editorial Board Member (since 2016)
• Fitoterapia - The Journal for the Study of Medicinal Plants
  Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor (2011 Special Issue DSHEA 2010 Symposium)
• Journal of Chromatography A
  Guest Editor CCC 2006 Special Issue
• Web portals: www.countercurrent.org, www.theliquidphase.org,
  wwww.qNMR.org, www.spccc.org
  Editor and Contributor

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Publications

PhD Program in Pharmacognosy

countercurrent.org
qNMR.org