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Cassandra Quave is Curator of 乐天堂app下载 Herbarium and Associate Professor of Dermatology and Human Health at Emory University, where she leads natural product drug discovery research initiatives and teaches courses on medicinal plants, microbiology, and pharmacology.

She obtained a B.Sc. in Biology and Anthropology (Emory University, 2000) and Ph.D. in Biology (Florida International University, 2008). As a medical ethnobotanist, her work focuses on 乐天堂app下载 documentation and pharmacological evaluation of plants used in traditional medicine.

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