$8 Million NIH Grant To Study Effects of Botanical Estrogens

Swanlund Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Cell and Developmental Biology Benita Katzenellenbogen is among three University of Illinois faculty involved in the Botanical Research Center, funded by a new $8 million NIH grant.

Katzenellenbogen will lead a study on effects of botanical estrogens on gene activation and their interaction with estrogen receptors and regulatory proteins.