Education

Botanicals and Metabolic Syndrome Curriculum

Ethics Core

1. Responsible Conduct of Research
2. NIH Research Ethics
3. Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research
4. Professional Ethics
5. Environmental Ethics
6. Protection of Human Subjects
7. Clinical Trials Ethics
8. Professional Development
9. On Being a Scientist
10. Ethics Education and Scientific and Engineering Research
11. Reading Scientific Literature
12. Reference Management With Mendeley and EndNote Software
13. Scientific Writing

Botanical and Analytical Core

1. General Botany
2. Plant Anatomy and Physiology
3. Plant Taxonomy
4. Plant Evolution
5. Plant Vouchering
6. Plant Filed Collection
7. Plant ID Keys
8. Extraction
9. Plant Biochemistry
10. Metabolic Profiling and Structural Characterization of Botanicals
11. Ethnobotany and Medicinal Plants
12. History of Plants and Human Health
13. Dietary Supplements
14. Functional Foods
15. Botanical Integrity / Botanical Validation
16. Botanical Integrity / iNaturalist

Preclinical Core

1. Drug Discovery & Drug Development
2. Lead Detection Assays
3. Basic Pharmacology and Formulation
4. Nutrition & Gut Microbiome
5. Molecular and Clinical Nutrition I
6. Molecular and Clinical Nutrition II
7. Plants, Food and Human Health
8. Safety Evaluations

Clinical Core

1. Human Anatomy and Physiology I
2. Human Anatomy and Physiology II
3. Metabolic Syndrome
4. Herb-drug Interactions
5. Clinical Effects of Phytochemicals
6. Foods, Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease
7. Biostatistics
8. Clinical Trial Design I
9. Clinical Trial Design II

CBCD Resources

• Links for learning and improving English skills

Online Library

• Application for Scholarship