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May 8th, 2012Ikhlas Khan receives honorary doctorate
April 9th, 2012Ikhlas A. Khan, Professor of Pharmacognosy, Assistant Director of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy’s National Center for Natural Products Research and director of its FDA Center for Excellence in Botanicals, received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Hamdard University in New Delhi, India, March 22, 2012.
Bad news for Bionovo and herbal drug development
March 15th, 2012Bionovo reports lay-off of most employees and review of ongoing Menerba trial.
Thomas Prisinzano To Receive 2012 David W. Robertson Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry
March 12th, 2012ACS Division Newsletter – The Division of Medicinal Chemistry is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas E. Prisinzano has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 David W. Robertson Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry. This award, supported by Pfizer, Inc., is in memory of David W. Robertson, a widely respected, highly successful and [...]
Natural Products Discovery Institute Signs First Major Deal
January 31st, 2012Dr. David Kingston, Virginia Tech, the first outside research to access Merck natural products library since transfer to the Hepatitis and Virus Research Institute.
Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research Receives Merck Natural Products Library
January 31st, 2012“Comprehensive Natural Products Library Finds New Home and Mission at Hepatitis B Foundation’s Research Institute”
Les Mitscher named ACS Fellow
August 18th, 2011Lester A. (‘Les’) Mitscher, University of Kansas Distinguished Professor, natural products researcher, past ASP President, ASP Fellow, and AAAS Fellow has been named to the 2011 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Mitscher has numerous awards and honors related to his research career. Congratulations on this latest recognition! The full list of [...]
Infinity Pharmaceuticals Advances Cyclopamine Derivative in Phase II Cancer Trials
June 29th, 2011A sulfonamide derivative of cyclopamine, IPI-926, targeting the Smoothened target in the Hedgehog pathway is entering Phase II clinical trials for myelofibrosis.
Conservation, Research & Education Opportunities (CREO) program
March 29th, 2011The Conservation, Research & Education Opportunities (CREO) program, with funding from the Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) Program, is an opportunity for upper-level undergraduate students and recent graduates to do research in Panama for up to 6 months in summer and fall 2011, with possible extension to spring 2012. The research [...]
Bromophycolides kill fungi, malaria parasites
March 9th, 2011Julia Kubanek, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, reports the inhibition of heme crystallization, a mechanism behind the killing of Plasmodium parasites, by compounds isolated from the red alga Callophycus serratus from Fiji.
