Join me in Pittsburgh or Online - February 12th
I'll be speaking at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens next week. Grab your tickets while they last!
About the Event
Phipps’ new virtual speaker series features leading voices from across the country to grow your understanding of our natural history and future vision for Pittsburgh. Talks will bring the speakers virtually to Pittsburgh, and can be enjoyed in-person in our historic Botany Hall Lecture or online via Zoom.
Have you ever taken an aspirin? Thank a willow tree for that. Do you have a loved one who has fought cancer? Many of our most important cancer medicines originated in the yew tree, mayapple and Madagascar periwinkle. Plants are the basis for a vast array of lifesaving and health-improving medicines. Ethnobotanist Dr. Cassandra L. Quave shows us how important studying plants is while sharing her own incredible journey as told in her memoir The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines.
Member tickets are $15; general admission tickets are $20. Doors open at 6:30 PM for in-person attendees.
I hope you can join us!
Yours in health, Dr. Quave
Cassandra L. Quave, Ph.D. is a Guggenheim Fellow, CNN Champion for Change, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, recipient of The National Academies Award for Excellence in Science Communication, and award-winning author of The Plant Hunter. Her day job is as professor and herbarium curator at Emory University School of Medicine, where she leads a group of research scientists studying medicinal plants to find new life-saving drugs from nature. She hosts the Foodie Pharmacology podcast and writes the Nature’s Pharmacy newsletter to share the science behind natural medicines. To support her effort, consider a paid or founding subscription to Nature’s Pharmacy or donation to her lab research.
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