Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9880
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2155-9880
+44 1300 500008
Benjamin Gilbert
University of California at Berkeley, Brazil
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Clin Exp Cardiolog
Brazil has the largest flora of any country. Six distinct biomass have been identified, among them temperate subtropical, hot semi-arid, humid tropical rainforest, and ‘cerrado’ (region of nutrient poor disaggregated soils). The flora has been exploited along the years by medical professionals. Modern pharmacology studies support the historical use for a great number of these plants yet international plant lists and pharmacopoeias largely ignore them. A wide area for research and development is thus awaiting attention.
Benjamin Gilbert obtained a B.A. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University in 1994 and a Ph.D. from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2000. His graduate research was based upon synchrotron x-ray spectromicroscopy studies at the Synchrotron Radiation Center of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, for which he received the SRC Aladdin Lamp Award. He performed post-doctoral research at UW – Madison and the University of California at Berkeley. In 2004, he joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and founded (with colleagues Jill Banfield and Glenn Waychunas) the Berkeley Nanogeoscience Center. In April 2007, he was promoted to a career scientist position.