The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications that seek to identify natural products with the potential to inhibit or induce Phase I and Phase II drug metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters, thereby possibly contributing to pharmacokinetic interactions with
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other medications.
These in vitro studies may include screening libraries of complex extracts and/or purified natural products in suitable medium to high throughput assays to identify potential interactions.
They may also include isolation and identification of novel, or not commercially available, natural products within complex mixtures that exhibit pharmacokinetic interactions.
This FOA is part of a larger investment from NCCIH that includes a U54 Center of Excellence for Natural Product Drug Interaction Research.
It is expected that data generated in projects supported under this FOA will be uploaded and made publicly available through the data repository maintained by the U54 Center.