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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…

2021 ASP Annual Meeting Cancellation

February 8, 2021 by pharmacognosy

Please see link for a letter from the ASP President. http://www.pharmacognosy.us/wp-content/uploads/Letter-from-the-President.pdf…

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…

Webinar Recording – Fostering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Scientific Research Groups

November 25, 2020 by pharmacognosy

Thank you to everyone who joined our FREE webinar! We hope you will watch the recording if you missed it or watch it again! …

Announcing the ASP Summer Research Fellowship

November 12, 2020 by pharmacognosy

We are pleased to announce the ASP Summer Research Fellowship! Please see link for details: http://www.pharmacognosy.us/asp-summer-research-fellowship/…

Sign up for NP Career Finder: ASP’s Searchable Interactive Map of NP Labs

October 30, 2020 by pharmacognosy

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 Prize Winners

October 26, 2020 by pharmacognosy

Thank you to everyone that updated their profile in the new ASP membership system. Please use the new system as a social community to connect and share with other ASP members. If you haven't as yet updated your profile, please…

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…