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Mary Frances Picciano Dietary Supplement Research Practicum

March 17, 2016 by Webmaster

The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now accepting applications for the Mary Frances Picciano Dietary Supplement Research Practicum on June 7–9, 2016, at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. This 3-day practicum…

Nobel Prize Lecture in Physiology or Medicine, Satoshi Omura

December 7, 2015 by Webmaster

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 open for 2017 Norman R Farnsworth ASP Research Achievement Award

December 3, 2015 by Webmaster

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…

Special Science Supplement on Traditional Medicine

November 28, 2015 by Webmaster

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).…

ASP Executive Committee mourns passing of David Slatkin

November 17, 2015 by Webmaster

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…