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Wright Receives 2025 Farnsworth Award

October 23, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By William Gerwick, PhD October 23, 2025 | This article appears in Volume 61, Issue 3 Wright receives the Farnsworth Award artwork at the 2025 ASP Annual Meeting. At the 2025 ASP Annual Meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dr. Amy…

Exploring the Role of Professional Societies when Science Is Under Attack

October 23, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By Brian Murphy, PhD October 22, 2025 | This article will appear in Volume 61, Issue 3. Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC. Photo taken by B. Murphy Since taking office in January of 2025, the second Trump Administration has carried out…

ASP President Cichewicz Addresses Members

October 3, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By Robert Cichewicz, PhD October 3, 2025 | This article will appear in Volume 61, Issue 3. Robert Cichewicz, ASP President Thank you for your dedication to our field and to this remarkable society. Each and every one of you…

Moore Named Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Natural Products

July 13, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By William Gerwick, PhD June 20, 2025 | This article appears in Volume 61, Issue 1 Bradley Moore, Editor-in-Chief, Credit: UC San Diego It is wonderful to see continued strong leadership at the helm of our flagship journal in natural…

Editor’s Corner

July 12, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By Edward J. Kennelly, PhD July 12, 2025 | This article appears in Volume 61, Issue 1 We are extremely pleased to announce the relaunching of the ASP Newsletter, now in a web-only format. I hope you will enjoy…

ASP 2025: A Grand Natural Products Adventure

July 11, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By Amit Chandra, PhD June 20, 2025 | This article appears in Volume 61, Issue 1 Downtown Grand Rapids This year’s ASP annual meeting, ASP 2025, will be held in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan from August 2…

In Memoriam: Mark O’Neil-Johnson

June 27, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By Russell Williams, PhD June 21, 2025 | This article appears in Volume 61, Issue 1 Mark O’Neil-Johnson, Credit: Guido Pauli ASP member Mark O’Neil-Johnson passed away in Saint Louis, Missouri from lymphoma on December 11, 2024. He is fondly…

Hot Topics in Pharmacognosy

June 24, 2024 by ASP Newsletter

HOT TOPICS IN PHARMACOGNOSY: Antibiotic Structures from the Past, and/or Novel Sources Now Being (Re)investigated By David J. Newman, DPhil INTRODUCTION (WITH SOME HISTORY) The search for novel antibiotics by “interrogation” of the massive databases of compounds…

In Memoriam: Heinz G. Floss

June 14, 2024 by ASP Newsletter

Heinz G. Floss: PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, 1988 By Taifo Mahmud, PhD and Bradley Moore, PhD On December 19, 2022, Heinz G. Floss, a world-renowned natural product chemist and a former president of the American Society of…

Behind the Scenes in Pharmacognosy: Smoke Taint in American West Coast Wines

June 10, 2024 by ASP Newsletter

Xiaoling Chen, PhD Candidate and Teal Jordan, MS Fire and wine were the topic of an open access article in the March 2022 issue of the Journal of Natural Products entitled “Natural Product Phenolic Diglycosides Created from Wildfires, Defining Their…