{"id":85152,"date":"2019-01-25T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=85152"},"modified":"2019-01-26T04:16:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T10:16:48","slug":"professor-gets-grant-produce-anticancer-natural-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/professor-gets-grant-produce-anticancer-natural-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Gets Grant to Produce Anticancer Natural Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85564\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/professor-gets-grant-produce-anticancer-natural-products\/cole-stevens\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85564\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85564\" src=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/UCIMG-628-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/UCIMG-628-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/UCIMG-628-768x1368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/UCIMG-628.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cole Stevens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Cole Stevens, a faculty member in the University of Mississippi <a href=\"http:\/\/pharmacy.olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">School of Pharmacy<\/a> has been awarded a grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Cancer Institute <\/a>for cancer prevention research using natural products.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens, an assistant professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/pharmacy.olemiss.edu\/biomolecularsciences\/divisions\/pharmacognosy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pharmacognosy <\/a>in the <a href=\"http:\/\/pharmacy.olemiss.edu\/biomolecularsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of BioMolecular Sciences<\/a>, is working to engineer bacteria to produce significant amounts of&nbsp;gephyronic acid, a polyketide&nbsp;that has potential as an anticancer therapy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Developing bacterial platforms&nbsp;capable of producing polyketides with anticancer activities&nbsp;will allow us to thoroughly evaluate their potential as therapeutics,&#8221; Cole said.<\/p>\n<p>Once Stevens has produced sufficient amounts of the gephyronic acid, a research group led by Kristie Willett, chair of biomolecular sciences and professor of pharmacology, will test zebrafish grafted with human breast cancer cells to determine if any anticancer activities are present.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Cole Stevens, a faculty member in the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy has been awarded a grant from the National Cancer Institute for cancer prevention research using natural products. 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