I received my B.Sc. in Environmental Toxicology from University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada in 1997. I began my studies here at Rutgers in September 1998. My project currently involves developing a screen to detect estrogenic compounds in root extracts. The screen utilizes an estrogen sensitive cell line from a rat pituitary tumor that has been immortalized. This screen will have the capacity to detect phytoestrogens and antiestrogens in the root extracts.

Publications:

• Teresa Cornwell, Wendie Cohick, and Ilya Raskin. Dietary Phytoestrogens and Health. Phytochemistry, Vol. 65, 8, 995-1016, 2004.
• Ilya Raskin, David M. Ribnicky, Slavko Komarnytsky, Nebojša Ilić, Alexander Poulev, Nikolai Borisjuk, Anita Brinker, Diego A. Moreno, Christophe Ripoll, Nir Yakoby, Joseph M. O'Neal, Teresa Cornwell, Ira Pastor and Bertold Fridlender. Plants and human health in the twenty-first century. Trends in Biotechnology, 2002, 20:12:522-531