The American Botanical Council (ABC) added nine new members to its advisory board, including experts from a range of disciplines – from clinical botanical medicine to herb safety issues.
ASHEVILLE: Bent Creek Institute, Inc. is pleased to announce the hire of its new Analytical Chemist, James Lyles.
NEW PRESIDENT HIRED: Bent Creek Institute, Inc., working with the nation’s medicinal herb germplasm repository based at The North Carolina Arboretum, has hired Greg Cumberford as its new President starting January 1, 2011. He succeeds former BCI president Cheryl McMurry who moved to Charleston, SC.
UNCTV NC Rising 2: Christine Rogers continues her "North Carolina Rising" reports focusing on rural economic development. Christine travels west to the Bent Creek Institute in Asheville where scientists are mixing business with botany to develop some of the nearly five thousand regional plant species into natural medicinal botanicals.
Translating Research Innovations into Sustainable Economic Advantage.
The Bent Creek Institute (BCI) champions, catalyzes, facilitates and coordinates research, business development and market opportunities for North Carolina specialty crop growers and botanical medicine developers and processors.
Combining traditional knowledge of medicinal plants with validated science, Bent Creek develops new intellectual property leading to proprietary products for new business creation, existing business ecpansion and improved profitability, and the attraction and site location of natural product and botanical medicine manufacturing companies.
BCI is forming productive partnerships, collaborations, and programs in research, economic development, medical care, product development and commercialization, conservation, marketing, and public outreach to bring international attention to the region’s unparalleled plant biodiversity, exceptional reputation for health and wellness, and cultural distinctiveness.
The BCGR laboratories discover, develop and validate natural medicines and integrative strategies for human health and wellness. Bent Creek Germplasm Repository serves to conserve native medicinal germplasm through research, collaborative projects, database development and resulting publications..