Donate Now - ASP Foundation
Upcoming Events
ASP Membership Login
https://asph.memberclicks.net/login
Summer Research Fellowship
Applications Accepted February 1 - March 1, 2026
Featured resources
by A. Douglas Kinghorn PhD
This article appears in the ASP Newsletter Volume 61, Issue 3.
ASP member Richard (Dick) G. Powell, a long-time associate editor of the Journal of Natural Products and an outstanding phytochemist, passed away in May 2025 at the age of 86. He was a retired research leader at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, IL, where he worked for 31 years. Powell served as associate editor with great acumen for a total of 23 years, from 1991 through 2013. In recognition of his outstanding editorial service, he was named on the journal masthead page as “Honorary Editor” from 2014-2015. Powell was very capably aided by his late wife, Rosemary, as his editorial assistant during his tenure.
Read More
ASP membership has its advantages! Members of the American Society of Pharmacognosy who publish open access in JNP may request a $500 article processing charge discount by sending an email directly to oaops@acs.org. The provided promo code can be used during the payment process for an open access article accepted […] Read More
We are sorry to announce that longtime member, Fellow and Past President of ASP, Gordon Cragg, has passed away. We will be sharing more information with the community about his accomplishments and impact on the field very soon.
Read More
by William Gerwick, PhD
This article appears in the ASP Newsletter Volume 61, Issue 1.
Distinguished Professor Bradley Moore from the University of California San Diego has started his term as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Natural Products with a vision of continuing the trajectory of our previous editors-in-chief, namely staying current with the newly emerging dimensions of natural products while maintaining the highest levels of rigor and ethics in scientific research.
Read More
by Edward J. Kennelly, PhD
This article appears in the ASP Newsletter 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 this newly imagined presentation. It has been almost a year since we published our last Newsletter, and that time was spent working on developing this new format and was not an easy task. I appreciate all the time and effort so many people have put into this Newsletter makeover.
Read MoreASP Mission
The American Society of Pharmacognosy was founded in 1959 as a society international in scope dedicated to the promotion, growth, and development of pharmacognosy and all aspects of natural products sciences.