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”
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USP Herbal Medicines Compendium
May 21st, 2013“Biosortia Pharmaceuticals Creating [Anti-Cancer] Drug Discovery Opportunity with Previously Unstudied Microorganisms”
May 4th, 2013Douglas 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
April 1st, 2013The 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.
Bradley Moore receives ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
March 19th, 2013Bradley 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 [...]
FDA Approves Crofelemer as First-Ever Oral Botanical Drug
January 3rd, 2013“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…”
Anticancer drug development from silvestrol at Ohio State and Sarawak Biodiversity Centre, Malaysia
November 16th, 2012Cooperative agreement will focus on anticancer drug development from Malaysian tree.
PharmaMar advances ecteinascidin drug PM01183 to Phase II for refractory ovarian, lung, breast cancers
November 5th, 2012Search PM01183
Epoxomicin analogue approved by FDA for multiple myeloma
September 12th, 2012Enhanced understanding of proteasome-epoxomicin interaction leads to more specific inhibitor.
Natural product analog targets cancer cells
July 13th, 2012Experimental Drug Based on Thapsigargin Targets and Kills Tumor Cells
