DATE:     12/13/02
CONTACT:  David Gangemi (864) 656-6463; gangemi@clemson.edu
WRITER:   Susan Bedingfield, (864) 656-3876; sbeding@clemson.edu
          
Clemson PSA receives
$50,000 donation

	CLEMSON   Clemson University's division of Public Service and
Agriculture (PSA) has received a $50,000 donation from a South Carolina
company.
	W. Greg Hyman, president of Dermacon Inc., presented the check 
to John Kelly, vice president for PSA, in a brief ceremony on Nov. 26 
on the Clemson campus. 
 	"Giving back to Clemson is an obvious choice for us for two 
reasons. First Dermacon is a company that started out as an 
agricultural endeavor, and second we are based in nutraceuticals.  
Clemson and the research going on at National Nutraceutical Center have 
been of great importance to us," said Hyman. 
	Dermacon, started in 1997, is located in Conway and opened its 
new corporate facility there on Oct. 10. The company offers a skin care 
line called E'llage, which is all natural and derived from a 
water-based extract of raspberry seeds. 
 	The NNC was organized in 1999 as a consortium of Clemson 
University, the South Carolina Research Authority and the Medical 
University of South Carolina (MUSC). NNC brings the combined resources 
of academia, government and industry together as a national research 
center.
	Nutraceuticals are foods or parts of foods, including dietary
supplements, that are able to prevent or treat diseases.  The 
nutraceutical industry accounts for a $90 billion market in the United 
States and has an ever-increasing presence in South Carolina with the 
location of General Nutrition, Perrigo and Leinet to the state, 
according to David Gangemi, executive director National Nutraceutical 
Center. 
	"This industry accounts for a significant part of South 
Carolina's annual income and is rapidly expanding," said Gangemi. "The 
center provides an environment where academia and industry can partner 
for the promotion of nutraceuticals in mainstream American healthcare," 
said Gangemi. 

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