Mango Party - Tues. June 5, 2018 3-5 p.m.

Mango Party!

Tuesday June 5, 2018
3-5 PM
Front of Essex Hall
Hosted by: Dr. Pandey

Donations will be accepted for the Canadian World Education Foundation supporting the education of children of widowed mothers in India and Kenya.

Mango Party - Tues. June 20, 2017

Mango Party

Dr. Pandey’s annual Mango Party is on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 3:00p.m. in front of Essex Hall. 

Everyone is welcome to attend.  See attached flyer.

Although there is no fee, Dr. Pandey is accepting donations, which he personally will match, for the Word Education Foundation.

Hope to see everyone there.

Dr. Pandey is honoured for research in cancer therapeutics and neurodegeneration

Prof. Siyaram Pandey is to be honoured with “Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman” at the House of Lords, London UK on Sept 30, 2016 by the Non Resident Indian (NRI) Welfare Society.





The Non-Resident Indians Welfare Society (NRI Welfare Society) of India was established with the noble objective of strengthening the interaction and bonds between India and Non-Resident Indians sprawling throughout the world strongly desire to see their motherland prosper and the common man should have better resources for bringing up his family. With this aim, thousands and thousands of NRIs have shown their readiness to make investments in India.

The Society organizes, seminars, conferences and symposia on national and International levels in different parts of the world and also honours NRI men and women from various parts of the world to recognize their work.

NRI Welfare society of India is organizing the Global Indian Summit in House of Lords, London, UK on 29-30 September and 1 October, 2016.

One of the highlight of the function will be presentation of Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman at House of Lords, London, to those who have made India made Shine. These Awards will be presented to 25 Indians from all over the Globe.

Professor Pandey was nominated and has been selected for this honour for his outstanding achievements as a researcher in the area of cancer therapeutics and neurodegeneration. He will be presented with Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman on Sept 30th 2016 at the Global Indian Summit in House of Lords, London UK.

Mango Party raises $1,000 for CWEF

A message from Dr. Pandey:

Dear All Friends,

Thank you all for joining us for the annual mango party on June 17, 2016.  Thank you for your generous donation for CWEF,  total amount donated n the mango box was Cash $400.00 and a Checque of $100.00 adding up to $500.00.  As a match for this donation I donated $500.00 to CWEF.  Thus we raised total of $1000.00 for CWEF, that is sufficient to support education of eight children of widows in India, Kenya or Tanzania.

Thank you again,

Siyaram Pandey

Mango Party - Fri. June 17

Dr. Pandey's Annual Mango Party takes place on Friday, June 17, 2016 at 3:00p.m. on the front steps of Essex Hall.

Donations will be accepted for the Canadian World Education Foundation supporting the education of children of widowed mothers in India and Kenya.

CBC highlight: Pamela Ovadje recognized for anti-cancer work

Windsor's dandelion tea researcher Pamela Ovadje recognized for anti-cancer work
Pamela Ovadje was 'a little bit skeptical' that dandelions could have cancer-fighting properties

A post-doctoral fellow at the University of Windsor is being recognized for the work she has done investigating the anti-cancer properties of several natural extracts, including those of dandelions.

Pamela Ovadje will receive the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation-Postdoctoral at a ceremony in Ottawa on Tuesday.

Mitacs is a non-profit organization that works with universities, governments and companies in Canada, to build partnerships to promote social and industrial innovation.

Close-up of a dandelion plant

Pamela Ovadje's research has examined the anti-cancer properties of several natural extracts, including dandelion roots. 

Ovadje told CBC Radio's Windsor Morning that the story of the work she has been doing tracks back to 2009.

"We had information from an oncologist, a collaborator here in Windsor, who had patients that showed improvement after taking dandelion-root tea," Ovadje told Windsor Morning.

"And so, with a phone call, we decided to start studying what was in this tea that made patients respond to it, so we started digging up dandelions."

Read the full story at the CBC web site

UWindsor researcher on a roll using natural extracts to fight cancer

UWindsor researcher on a roll using natural extracts to fight cancer

After finding treatment possibilities in dandelion root extract, biochemistry professor Siyaram Pandey and the students in his lab have discovered a second natural extract that successfully targets cancer cells.

His latest paper shows that extract from the flowering plant long pepper makes cancer cells undergo apoptosis—essentially committing suicide.

“It targets the weakness of the cancer cells, the metabolic vulnerability of cancer cells. Healthy cells can tolerate the extract but cancer cells cannot tolerate it, they die,” says Dr. Pandey. In addition to testing the substance on a cellular level and studying cells in a petri dish in the lab, his team also fed it orally to mice with tumours. “We proved it is not toxic. It dissolves into the system, goes to the tumour site and blocks the growth of the tumour.”

Pandey, post-doctoral fellow Pam Ovadje, and graduate and undergraduate student contributors, have just published their long pepper findings in the November 2014 edition of PLOS One.

To read more, see the full Daily News story here!