About Me

In short, medicine is simply the science of the effects of Love on repletion and depletion of the body, and the hallmark of the accomplished physician is his ability to distinguish the Love that is noble from the Love that is ugly and disgraceful.

-Plato's Symposium, 428-347 B.C.

Contact Information

Cassandra Leah Quave, Ph.D.

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
College of Medicine
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

4301 W. Markham St., Mail Slot 511
Little Rock, AR 72205-7199

E-mail

Fax: (501) 686-5359

• Open Science Network in Ethnobiology (OSN) travel award to attend the 2nd Annual OSN meeting and 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany; $1,330. 2010
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Postdoctoral Training in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (F32). Proposal Title: Anti-biofilm activity of white horehound extract in catheter-associated infection. #F32AT005040; PI: C.L. Quave, 1/1/2009-12/31/2011. Year 1: $51,332; Year 2: $53,312; Year 3: $56,132. CRISP link to abstract
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research. Proposal Title: Anti-pathogenic activity of natural products from plants. # F31AT004288; PI: C.L. Quave, 10/1/2007-12/31/2008. Year 1: $33,723; Year 2: $34,076. CRISP link to abstract
• Florida International University MBRS RISE (Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement), a NIH/NIGMS sponsored research fellowship: R25 GM061347; $21,000 annual stipend and tuition. May 2007-current
• Access to Biomedical Research (ABR) Biomedical Research Initiative summer research award, a NIH/NIGMS sponsored research fellowship, $2,600 laboratory research supplies; 2007
• Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany, The Garden Club of America; $4,000 research supplies; 2007
• Botany in Action, A Research Program of Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens; $3,000 field research; $500 to attend the annual Society for Economic Botany Meeting; 2007
• USDA CSREES FIU Agroecology Grant# 2005-38422-15940; $2,000 field research; 2006
• Botany in Action, A Research Program of Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens; $3,000 field research; 2006
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Institutional Pre-doctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA) #1-T32-AT01060-01; $19,968 annual stipend/ $5000 tuition per semester; 8/2003-8/2006
• The Foundation for Science and Disability; $1,000 field research; 2001
• The National Kappa Alpha ThetaFoundation; $1,800 field research; 2001
• Emory College International Scholars Program; $2,951 field research; 2000

• Direttore Onorario del Giardino Etnobotanico (Honorary Director of the Ethnobotanical Garden of Ginestra, Italy); 2008
• Graduate Student Poster Award at the meeting of the American Society of Pharmacognosy; 2008
• First place award for an oral presentation in the Life Sciences at the FIU Scholarly Forum; 2008
• The Edmund H. Fulling Award for the best contributed oral paper by a junior professional at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany; 2007
• The National Charles R. Jenkins Award for Excellence in Anthropology; 2000
• The Outstanding Senior Award in the Dept. of Anthropology at Emory University; 2000
• The Outstanding Junior Award in the Dept. of Anthropology at Emory University; 1999

Citizenship

• United States Citizen