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TWU’s Prasad
participates in national nutrition practicum on dietary supplements
6/05/07
June 5, 2007 —
DENTON — Chandan Prasad, Ph.D., professor and chair
of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at Texas
Woman’s University, joined more than 50 other professors
and graduate students from university nutrition and food science
departments throughout the United States at the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements’ (ODS)
first intensive practicum on dietary supplement research.
The course, “Current
Issues and Recent Developments in Dietary Supplement Research:
An Intensive Practicum,” was held on the NIH campus
in Bethesda, Md., from May 21 to 25.
ODS offered this
course to provide essential knowledge of dietary supplements
to professors and their doctoral or post-doctoral students
with a serious interest in this subject. Experts from NIH,
academic institutions, and federal regulatory agencies such
as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) served as speakers.
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