Providing a one-of-a-kind program where students can animate, view, and print three-dimensional models to help them visualize and understand complex concepts and processes.
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The PDI provides contract development and testing services for solid oral dosage forms specializing in early development. In addition, the PDI offers training workshops for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. The workshops offer classroom instruction and hands-on training that can be custom-tailored to the company’s unique needs.
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An educational display of medicinal plants herbs and spices and also as a conservatory source of standard specimens.
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A realistic and objective training facility for learners to practice and perfect patient care without risk to real patients.
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Providing accredited educational programs to pharmacists and other healthcare professionals.
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Providing the Rhode Island community with the latest, most complete information regarding medications.
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Providing healthcare practitioners with timely, evidence-based drug information to promote the safe, rational use of medications.
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The United States Department of Agriculture has awarded two University of Rhode Island researchers $470,000 to advance their pioneering work exploring the anti-inflammatory properties of maple syrup phytochemicals. The study, titled “Beneficial effects of maple syrup phytochemicals against inflammation associated with metabolic syndrome,” aims to evaluate the anti-inflammatory effects of a polyphenol-enriched maple syrup extract […]
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In the 1992 film Medicine Man, biochemist Robert Campbell, played by actor Sean Connery, searches for new drugs in the Amazon’s vast rainforests. There Campbell finds a cure for cancer not in the rainforest’s rare flowers – which don’t have “juju,” or the power to heal – but in an indigenous ant species.
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While the maple tree is known for delicious syrup, researchers at URI have discovered that maple trees provide much more than a way to make breakfast taste better. In its branches, leaves, and sap, maple species, including Rhode Island’s state tree, the red maple, may be the key to regulating blood glucose levels in humans. Thanks to $110,000 in funding from Verdure Sciences, this important research will continue.
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