The contributors to this part of the World of Fungi website are the many medical students who have completed their special study module (SSM) under my supervision, together with a few Honours biology students who have completed projects with me.
SSMs are for Year 1 Medics and aim to encourage students to have an active approach to learning by performing literature-based research on a biomedical topic. They then produce a written report on that topic, and this report forms the basis of the webpages you have here. I generally offer titles under two heading: 'Origin of drugs in current use' (with emphasis on drugs derived from fungi) and 'Potential of Fungi Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine'. Only the best SSMs make it to this website, so I think you'll be impressed. But remember the limitations - the authors are first year medical students and they have a total of less that two months to research the topic and, in fact, have only two weeks of that time free of their main (and very demanding) course work.
 | The Cyclosporin story: by Harriet Upton (2001) |
| The Diflucan story: by Abrar Malik (2001) |
| The Ergot Alkaloids: by Ziad Madlom (2002) |
| The Statins: by Mark Gilson (2000) |
| The Latest about Statins: by Chee-Peng Lydia Pavey (2003) |
| Patenting Statins: by Ian Ramsay (2003) |
| Medicinal Auricularia: by Ana Bonell (2001) |
| Medicinal Cordyceps: by James Matthew Howard (2003) |
| Medicinal Ganoderma: by Mark Dunham (2000) |
| Medicinal Shiitake/shiang-gu (Lentinula edodes): by Mohammad Ismail Haji Mokhtar (2000) |
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Medicinal Shiitake (Lentinula edodes): by Dawn Soo (2002) |
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Nutritional value of fungi: by Stephanie Ingram (2002) |
| Potential of fungi used in Chinese remedies for cancer treatment: by Sinthujah Jeganathan (2003) |
These websites are a different matter. They are written by biological sciences students in their final undergraduate year. Students have around 2 days each week for up to 12 weeks to research the topic and learn how to create websites and then put their own website together. Most of my topics are non-medical and can be found in the Mostly Mycology section, but there are a few that are medical.
| Mycoses: by Pamela Appleby (2001): A detailed survey of human diseases caused by fungi, the organisms that cause them, symptoms, and treatments. |
| Gene Therapy: by William Bates (2001): Insight into what gene therapy has to offer. |
All this talk of getting old; it's getting me down, my love; like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown.
