St. John's Wort "SuperFluids" Manufacturing Method Receives NIH Grant
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Aphios Corp. has been awarded a $1.1 mil., two-and-a-half-year "fast-track" Small Business Innovation Research grant from the NIH National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine. The subject of the grant is a manufacturing method using "SuperFluids," which the firm says allows better standardization of St. John's wort and other herbs.
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