News & Announcements

The Nobel Prize Lectures in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was given today, including ASP Fellow Professor Satoshi Ōmura’s lecture entitled, “A splendid gift from the Earth: The origins & impact of Avermectin.” http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2015/omura-lecture.html…

Nominations are now open for the 2017 Norman R Farnsworth ASP Research Achievement Award. This award is given annually by the American Society of Pharmacognosy, and consists of an honorarium of $5,000 and travel expenses to present the award lecture…

AAAS, publishers of Science magazine, continues its special series on traditional medicine in its November 13, 2015, issue. The supplement can be read at http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6262/871.3  (doi: 10.1126/science.350.6262.871-c).…

The ASP Executive Committee mourns the very great loss on Monday, November 16 of a major figure in the Society and an Honorary Member, Dr. David J. Slatkin, who had been bravely fighting Parkinson’s disease for several years. David became…

The ASP will join the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA), the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE), Società Italiana di Fitochimica (SIF), Association Francophone pour l’Enseignement et la Recherche en Pharmacognosie (AFERP), and the Japanese Society of …

The annual meeting of ASP will be a joint meeting with the European societies in Copenhagen, Denmark. To accommodate those who are unable to attend the Denmark meeting, an interim meeting will be held at the University of Mississippi, April…

The Garden Club of America’s Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany provides at least one grant award of $4,500 annually to support research related to medicinal plants. Further application details are available at http:www.wp.pharmacognosy.us/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Chatham-Fellowship-2016-announcement.pdf…

Applications are warmly invited for a summer school on “Microbial Diversity and  Specialised Metabolites,” the sixth in the series of John Innes-Rudjer Bošković Summer Schools on Applied Molecular Microbiology, to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 10-18, 2016. Full details,…

Satoshi Ömura, noted natural products chemist, shared the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the microbial production of the avermectin class of compounds; These compounds are important in the treatment of river blindness and other…