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Solicitation of nominations for 2025 ASP Fellows

January 6, 2025 by pharmacognosy

Deadline February 15th This year, a new process for nomination of new ASP Fellows has been approved by the ASP Executive Committee which allows for open nomination of ASP Fellows from any member of the ASP. By way of this…

Prof. Dr. A. Douglas Kinghorn Appointed as the Chair of the 2024 Tu Youyou Award Committee

November 21, 2024 by pharmacognosy

Prof. Dr. A. Douglas Kinghorn College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University Photograph by Kevin Fitzsimons It is a great honor to announce that Prof. Dr. A. Douglas Kinghorn will serve as the Chair of the Award Committee for the…

ASP Announces new Editor-in-Chief for JNP

November 6, 2024 by pharmacognosy

The American Society of Pharmacognosy is pleased to announce that Dr Bradley Moore will become the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Natural Products. Dr Moore is a Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UC San Diego where…

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…

ASP Seeking JNP Editor-in-Chief Position

May 10, 2024 by pharmacognosy

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Natural Products The American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) is seeking a broadly experienced and visionary natural products scientist for the position of Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for its flagship journal, Journal of Natural Products (JNP), which is a…