Pacifichem 2010 is The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, and will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15-20, 2010. The meeting will host several symposia of interest to the natural products community, including the following:

• Marine Natural Products: Isolation, Biology, Ecology, and Synthesis [Jon Rainier (United States)  rainier@c[email protected]]
• Recent Advances in Natural Products as Anticancer Agents [David G. I. Kingston (USA) [email protected]]
• Novel Synthetic Methodology and Its Application to Natural Product Synthesis [Frederick West (Canada) [email protected]]
• Total Synthesis of Natural Products and Related Compounds [Keiji Tanino (Japan) [email protected]]
• Design and Synthesis of Biologically Active Compounds and Natural Products [Tohru Oishi (Japan) [email protected]]
• Biosynthesis of Natural Products [Professor John Vederas (Canada) [email protected]]

All symposia will include both invited and contributed papers, and there will also be a poster session associated with each symposium. Abstract submission will open on January 1, 2010 through March 15, 2010. General information can be obtained from the website http://www.pacifichem.org/, and specific information about the symposia listed above can be obtained by contacting the organizer listed.

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NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices

The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) plan to continue the Botanical Research Center Program for another 5-year period. ODS and NCCAM invite proposals from both new applicants and currently funded centers. The application process involves two stages. All applicants are required to submit pre-applications under PAR-09-091 for peer review. Applicants submitting the most meritorious pre-application proposals will be invited to apply for center funding under RFA-OD-09-001.  The purpose of the program is to promote collaborative interdisciplinary study of botanicals, particularly those found as ingredients in dietary supplements. The research should have high potential for being translated into practical benefits for human health.

Further information can be found under “Headlines” on the ODS web site http://ods.od.nih.gov/