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May 19, 2011

From: Laura J. Woodard, Director of Media Relations
318-342-5440, woodard@ulm.edu

ULM Endowed Professor to present in Malaysia

Paul SylvesterSylvester

University of Louisiana at Monroe Pfizer Endowed Professor of Pharmacology, Dr. Paul Sylvester, will give a Plenary talk in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the PINC 2011 conference this month.

Sylvester will attend the Palm International Nutra-Cosmeceutical Conference, "Bioactives for a Healthy Lifestyle," under the sponsorship of Malaysian Palm Oil Council from May 19-21.

The title of Dr. Sylvester's talk is "Efficacy and Physiological Outcomes of Different Vitamin E Isomers."

Sylvester, a world-renowned expert in the anticancer effects of tocotrienols, commonly known as Vitamin E, has a lifetime of work devoted to eradicating one of the most devastating diseases for women, breast cancer.

Sylvester is the Pfizer Endowed Professor of Pharmacology and Director of Graduate Studies and Research at ULM.