January 28, 2014
Russ Mumper, PhD, is the recipient of a 2014 Molecules Best Paper Award for a 2010 review of plant phenolic compounds, their processing, and health and medical applications. Mumper is vice dean of the School and the John A. McNeill Distinguished Professor in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics.
Mumper and Jin Dai, PhD, received second prize in the review category for “Plant Phenolics: Extraction, Analysis and Their Antioxidant and Anticancer Properties.” Dai was a graduate student in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Kentucky at the time the paper was published.
The authors wrote:
“Plant polyphenols have drawn increasing attention due to their potent antioxidant properties and their marked effects in the prevention of various oxidative stress associated diseases such as cancer. In the last few years, the identification and development of phenolic compounds or extracts from different plants has become a major area of health- and medical-related research.”
The review covered:
- phenolic extraction, purification, analysis and quantification;
- the antioxidant properties of phenolics;
- the anticancer effects of phenolics; and
- possible mechanisms of action involving antioxidant and pro-oxidant activity as well as
interference with cellular functions.
The winners of the 2014 Molecules awards were chosen from among all the papers published by the journal in 2010. The paper has been viewed on-line more than 35,000 times and cited by other authors in their papers almost 300 times.
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