About Kelvin Duncan, Ph.D.

Kelvin (Kelly) Duncan is the Dean of Science at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He has researched bioactive defence compounds in animals, plants and micro-organisms for many years. He also develops new technologies to extract the compounds he discovers. Many of his discoveries have become commercial – enzogenol is a recent example. He is currently working on photobioreactors to grow photosynthetic micro-organisms in a more controlled manner, a new cell disruption technology called "potentiation" that enables a greater range of better products to be extracted from plant and microbial cells, "potentiated" pollen and "potentiated"grasses, and a new class of non-toxic (to humans) natural antibiotics of great curative powers.

Articles by Kelvin Duncan, Ph.D.

  1. Fighting Free Radicals: The Role of Bark Extractives

    Listed in antioxidants

    The rapidly growing volume of evidence in the scientific literature about the nature and role of free radicals has lead to an increasing awareness of their importance in health and ...

Book reviews by Kelvin Duncan, Ph.D.

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