CURRENT FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS:

        1.   RO1 CA 90997             Wang (PI)      06/16/03 – 05/31/09

NCI/NIH                                           $469,061/first year; $1,834,573/whole project

            Chemoprevention of green tea polyphenols on liver cancer

The major goal of this project is to study chemopreventive effect of green tea polyphenols on reducing various carcinogen biomarkers and incidence of primary liver cancer in a 5-year clinical trial in 1,800 high-risk people.

      2.     W911SR-04-C0050    Wang (PI)      10/01/2000 – 04/01/2009                  

            RDECOM, US Army                  $178,000/Current year; $2,400,569/whole project

            Combinative Toxicity Studies of Biotoxin Mixtures

The major goal of this research contract is to study acute toxicity of various biotoxin mixtures in rats and fish model and to develop method to detect these biotoxin mixtures in environmental samples and biological fluids.

      3.   1R21AT003735-01A1 (Shen)      09/01/2007-08/31/2009

 NCCAM/NIH                                     $572,720/whole period

GTP and Tai Chi for Bone Health: a Pilot Study

The major goal of this project is to conduct a clinical trial for assessing Tai Chi and green tea polyphenols in enhance bone health in women.

Role: TTU-PI

The major goal of this study is to evaluate safety of NovaSil in healthy human volunteers.

      4.   ECG-A-00-07-00001-00  Wang (PI)   01/01/2008-12/31/2012

            USAID/Peanut CRSP                          $990,000

            Development of methods for establishing a global network for aflatoxin exposure

The major goal of this project is to develop analytical method for measurement of blood samples collected from world-wide and to establish a global aflatoxin exposure network using biomarker as approach.