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

Applications are warmly invited for a summer school on “Microbial Diversity and  Specialised Metabolites,” the sixth in the series of John Innes-Rudjer Bošković Summer Schools on Applied Molecular Microbiology, to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 10-18, 2016. Full details, including the availability of grants to attend the summer school, are at http://www.jic.ac.uk/science/molmicro/summerschool/index.htm. […] Read More about Microbial Diversity and Specialised Metabolites summer school

Satoshi Ömura, noted natural products chemist, shared the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the microbial production of the avermectin class of compounds; These compounds are important in the treatment of river blindness and other parasitic diseases. Ömura isolated avermectin from Streptomyces avermitilis isolated from […] Read More about ASP Fellow Satoshi Omura wins Nobel Prize for avermectins

A Symposium in honor of Professor Amos B. Smith, III, on October 17th, 2015, co-organized by the Philadelphia Organic Chemistry Club and the Department of Chemistry at University of Pennsylvania.  The Symposium theme will be “Recent Advances in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry.” In recognition of his outstanding contributions to our […] Read More about Symposium in honor of Amos B. Smith, III