ASP Newsletter: Fall 2022, Volume 58, Issue 3
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 ASP members may not be aware of the significant contributions made as a result of studies by the Pettit group starting in the middle 1960s.
After 25 years of working as a scientist in increasingly entrepreneurial environments, including positions at early stage platform and drug discovery/development companies, a late-night chance encounter in 2000 at Raleigh Durham airport with Arthur Pappas, a life science investor, was my introduction into the world of venture capital.
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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 historian known for his work in BBC’s Life series. The 58-minute film shows the effects of biodiversity loss and climate change. Attenborough, together with renowned scientists from different fields, provide a series of shocking facts that make this documentary a compulsory watch for all.
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By William Gerwick, PhD
The value of international engagement in US science is enormous, and recent proposed changes in immigration law for foreign students is having a devastatingly negative impact. It has been expressed that the biggest impact of the current administration is to have “sown the seeds of fear” in our foreign student population. This essay explores some of the highly positive aspects of foreign students being trained in the US and gives my perspective on some things that should be done to reverse the negative trend of the current administration.
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 do so. LOGIN HERE And now to announce the prize winners! 1st Prize – […]
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 eager graduate student with a long, dark ponytail, possibly wearing a lobster bib. I sported that ponytail with a great deal of pride for over 4 years, and then one day, I cut it off, essentially shaving my head. Later that day, there was a parade of sorts coming by the labs at Purdue, all to see ”the new Nick,” so to speak. My boss, Dr. Jerry McLaughlin, a former associate editor of the Journal of Natural Products and president of the ASP in 1982-1983 (aka the six of clubs in the ASP deck of cards), came by and said: “You know, Nick, there is only one constant in life, and that’s change.”
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