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New Members of ASP Spring 2024

January 30, 2022 by Amy Henckel

ASP would like to welcome our new members. The Society’s main objectives are to provide the opportunity for association among the workers in pharmacognosy and related sciences, to provide opportunities for presentation of research achievements, and to promote the publication…

Editor’s Corner

January 29, 2022 by Amy Henckel

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…

Meet a New ASP Member: Dr. Jie Li

January 6, 2022 by ASP Newsletter

Jie Li in his microbial culture room. PHOTO: Dan Xue Dr. Jie Li is our featured new member in this issue of the Newsletter. Dr. Li started his independent career as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and…

2022 ASP Fine Art Competition

January 4, 2022 by pharmacognosy

Call for Submissions The American Society of Pharmacognosy, an organization dedicated to the discovery of new drugs and other applications of natural products science, initiated an annual art competition beginning in 2016. We are happy to continue this new tradition…

Join the Challenge! Help Support the ASP Summer Research Fellowship

December 9, 2021 by pharmacognosy

Donate and Help ASP Continue the ASP Summer Research Fellowship! 2021 ASP Summer Research Fellows Click Here to hear from the 2021 Summer Research Fellows. Donate and help to continue the ASP Summer Research Fellowship…

HOT TOPICS IN PHARMACOGNOSY: Revisions of “Repurposing for CoV-2” and Potential Uses of Cationic Peptide Compounds as Antibiotics and Other Diseases

October 22, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

David J. Newman, DPhil REPURPOSING FOR COV-2 In the February 2021 ASP Newsletter I commented on and gave “potted precises” of the work done on large scale repurposing of known drugs in order to try to “short-circuit” the time required…

Inaugural ASP Vanguards Virtual Symposium Series a Great Success!

October 11, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

By C. Benjamin Naman, PhD and Karen VanderMolen, PhD As we collectively surpass a year and a half together in the global COVID-19 pandemic, many of us suffer from online meeting fatigue and sore monitor eyes. The ASP overcame these…

ASP President McPhail Addresses Members

October 8, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

Dr. Kerry McPhail PHOTO: DANIEL SEEMILLER By Kerry McPhail, PhD NOTE: A video of President McPhail’s address to members at the July 28th ASP Business Meeting is available at www.pharmacognosy.us/presidential-remarks-asp-business-meeting-2021/ I am profoundly moved and honored to have this opportunity…

George ‘Bob’ Pettit

September 27, 2021 by pharmacognosy

We are saddened at the passing of colleague, mentor and friend George ‘Bob’ Pettit: a giant in the field, who devoted 60+ years to finding cures for cancer and brought tremendous visibility and continuing impact on natural products research. https://news.asu.edu/20210924-memoriam-regents-professor-george-bob-pettit…

Fieldwork with Family… and a Fake Leg

August 25, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

Cassandra L. Quave, Ph.D. My husband, Marco, and I welcomed our first of three children in the fall of 2005. I was a graduate student at Florida International University in Miami, FL at the time, and finished my qualifying exams…