AAAS, publishers of Science magazine, continues its special series on traditional medicine in its November 13, 2015, issue. The supplement can be read at http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6262/871.3  (doi: 10.1126/science.350.6262.871-c).

The ASP Executive Committee mourns the very great loss on Monday, November 16 of a major figure in the Society and an Honorary Member, Dr. David J. Slatkin, who had been bravely fighting Parkinson’s disease for several years. David became Treasurer of ASP in 1981, and served superbly in this […] Read More

The ASP will join the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA), the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE), Società Italiana di Fitochimica (SIF), Association Francophone pour l’Enseignement et la Recherche en Pharmacognosie (AFERP), and the Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy (JSP) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-27 July 2016 for the 9th Joint Natural Products Conference 2016. […] Read More

The annual meeting of ASP will be a joint meeting with the European societies in Copenhagen, Denmark. To accommodate those who are unable to attend the Denmark meeting, an interim meeting will be held at the University of Mississippi, April 11-14, 2016. The details of this meeting, in conjunction with […] Read More

The Garden Club of America’s Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany provides at least one grant award of $4,500 annually to support research related to medicinal plants. Further application details are available at http:www.wp.pharmacognosy.us/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Chatham-Fellowship-2016-announcement.pdf