The American Society of Pharmacognosy

USP Herbal Medicines Compendium

webmaster — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:35:14 +0000

United States Pharmacopeial Convention announced Monday the availability of a new compendium that “offers freely available testing standards to help ensure the quality of herbal ingredients used in traditional medicines”

“Biosortia Pharmaceuticals Creating [Anti-Cancer] Drug Discovery Opportunity with Previously Unstudied Microorganisms”

webmaster — Sat, 04 May 2013 17:15:08 +0000

Douglas Kinghorn (PI, Ohio State University College of Pharmacy) and colleagues will work closely with Guy Carter (Biosortia Chief Scientific Officer) to discover new, active compounds with activity toward human colon and other cancers from pre-fractionated extracts from microorganism corsortia.

SciFinder Science in the News – Natural Products Chemistry

webmaster — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:51:04 +0000

The SciFinder Science in the News series has posted three videos (Feb 22 to Mar 21) on YouTube highlighting “ever-evolving and important world of” natural products chemistry. Featured in the videos are Doug Kinghorn, Gordon Cragg and Roger Schenck. Part 1 can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyxaVbtBZ9Q, Part 2 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG9Cn_WYexk, and Part 3 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdwQBpC9fm4.

GA 2013

webmaster — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:28:36 +0000

61st International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society of Medicinal Planta and Natural Products Researfch (GA), Münster, Germany, September 1-5, 2013 (abstract deadline: April 15, 2013); http://www.ga2013.org

Bradley Moore receives ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award

webmaster — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:02:42 +0000

Bradley S. Moore (ASP Vice-President) has been named as a 2013 receipient of the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (C&E News, Mar 4, p 60). The award is bestowed to recognize outstanding achievement in organic chemistry. Bradley’s award is in recognition of his efforts to understand the biosynthesis of complex marine nature products. Congratulations!

The Mary Frances Picciano Dietary Supplement Research Practicum

webmaster — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:32:41 +0000

The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is pleased to announce that online applications are now being accepted for the 7th Annual Mary Frances Picciano Dietary Supplement Research Practicum scheduled for June 4– 7, 2013. The practicum will be held at Natcher Conference Center and Lister Hill Center, located on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

FDA Approves Crofelemer as First-Ever Oral Botanical Drug

webmaster — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:07:34 +0000

“On New Year’s Eve of 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its approval of crofelemer (Fulyzaq™, Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., Raleigh, North Carolina) — marking the second time a botanical, and the first time an orally administered botanical, has received drug approval…”

ACS to post ASP members’ JNP manuscripts to PubMed Central

webmaster — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:44:58 +0000

As a new member benefit to American Society of Pharmacognosy members, the American Chemical Society will post the peer-reviewed, ready-for-publication manuscripts in the Journal of Natural Products of ASP members to the NIH PubMed Central. This will allow ASP members to more easily comply with the NIH requirement that all NIH-funded research be made available without charge to the public. The deposit will be made at no extra cost to the ASP member author. Further details can be found at http://asph.memberclicks.net/asp-benefit-free-nih-pmc-submission.

Anticancer drug development from silvestrol at Ohio State and Sarawak Biodiversity Centre, Malaysia

webmaster — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:08:03 +0000

Cooperative agreement will focus on anticancer drug development from Malaysian tree.

PharmaMar advances ecteinascidin drug PM01183 to Phase II for refractory ovarian, lung, breast cancers

webmaster — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 06:28:23 +0000

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