Research at Georgia State University focusing on Ethiopian medicinal plants is showing potential in combating cervical cancer. Led by Professor Paulos Yohannes under the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, the collaboration involves extracting and analyzing plant compounds for their anticancer properties, with promising preliminary results. Credit: SciTechDaily.com
Paulos Yohannes is a chemistry professor and serves as associate dean for STEM/research at Georgia State University’s Perimeter College. He is leading the work as part of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program . The research includes collecting samples of plants native to Ethiopia that are recognized for their medicinal benefits to test their effectiveness in fighting disease.
Yohannes is working with Georgia State Regents’ Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Binghe Wang to analyze the plants and compounds. So far, the team has analyzed more than 30 plant extracts from Ethiopia and found several of them to be active on cervical cancer cells. Yohannes said the work underway by Wang and his team of postdoctoral and student researchers has yielded important results, including the discovery of a new compound not found in the existing database.
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