UM BDSRC

The University of Mississippi Botanical Dietary Supplements Research Center (UM BDSRC) is a component of the NIH Consortium for Advancing Research on Botanicals and other Natural Products (CARBON) Program. It was created to foster collaborations between scientists at the University of Mississippi housed at the main campus in Oxford and the Medical Center in Jackson... Arthrospira platensis (commonly known as spirulina) is a top selling botanical for improving immune health. This center's research is directed towards generating sufficient data to optimally design future human intervention studies to evaluate the utility of Spirulina-derived oral supplements in promoting resilience against viral infections such as influenza. The use of a Spirulina-derived oral supplement may provide an important complementary approach to currently available antiviral therapies that is inexpensive, safe and readily available to the public.

Also known as: University of Mississippi Botanical Dietary Supplements Research Center