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Making STEM a Safer Place

April 22, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

By Alison Hughes, PhD Candidate February 11 was International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a United Nations initiative actioning “full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality.” It…

HOT TOPICS IN PHARMACOGNOSY: Chemistry and CoV-2 Treatments

April 12, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

By David J. Newman, DPhil INTRODUCTION Over the last eight or so months there have been a series of papers, some short, some long, covering what can be considered as four major topics: natural products, repurposing of approved drugs, use…

HOT TOPICS IN PHARMACOGNOSY: The Evolution of Dolastatin 10 Derivatives as Sources of ADC Warheads

February 8, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

By David Newman, DPhil Though natural product chemists who specialize in marine-sourced agents are usually aware of the contribution of structures based upon dolastatin 10 as warheads in antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), targeted against cancers of varying etiologies, the majority of…

Investing in Natural Products

February 8, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

Published as a SIDEBAR to: HOT TOPICS IN PHARMACOGNOSY: The Evolution of Dolastatin 10 Derivatives as Sources of ADC Warheads By David Newman, DPhil By Cedric Pearce, PhD After 25 years of working as a scientist in increasingly entrepreneurial…

O’Keefe Interviewed for BBC Documentary

December 18, 2020 by ASP Newsletter

O’Keefe being interviewed for the BBC documentary Extinction: The Facts. By Mario Figueroa, PhD On September 2020, the BBC released Extinction: The Facts, a documentary about the sixth mass extinction. It is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, a natural…

Opinion: Current Federal Policies Are Injurious to US Science and Natural Products Research

October 30, 2020 by pharmacognosy

Editor’s Note: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the ASP or this Newsletter. By William Gerwick, PhD The value of international engagement in US science…

ASP President Oberlies Addresses Members

October 24, 2020 by pharmacognosy

By Nicholas H. Oberlies, PhD The first ASP meeting I attended was in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1984. If you can find pictures from that meeting’s final banquet (and I fear that Barry O’Keefe already has), you might see an…

Exploring Berry Patches at the Top of the World

October 24, 2020 by ASP Newsletter

The main three indigenous berries around Point Hope, Alaska. (From L to R) Rubus chamaemorus (cloudberry), Vaccinium uliginosum (lowbush blueberry), and Empetrum nigrum (black crowberry). Photo credit: Joshua J. Kellogg. By Joshua J. Kellogg, PhD As natural product researchers, field…