Dr. Altman received his Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. He is currently the Director of the Tennessee Center for Botanical Medicine Research (TCBMR) and a Professor in the Department of Biology at Middle Tennessee State University. The TCBMR specializes in developing new drugs or nutraceuticals from plants that have medicinal value and is particularly interested in the study of plants that have been used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Dr Altman’s laboratory has three primary research interests, developing fermentation approaches to produce industrially important biochemicals, creating new or improved peptide drugs and finding new uses for natural products. Dr. Altman has over 50 publications in refereed journals and 16 issued US patents.
