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Learn about the latest news and events involving CNPD3 research and faculty. Upcoming Events The College of Pharmacy’s Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, or CNPD3, will host the 2019 UF Drug Discovery Symposium, April 25-26, 2019, at the Hotel Indigo in Gainesville. This year’s symposium will feature an exciting lineup of invited...
Jürgen Bulitta, Ph.D., is among a team of UF researchers exploring how drug combinations can be tuned to defeat resistant bacteria.
University of Florida pharmacy researchers have modified a toxic chemical produced by tiny marine microbes and successfully deployed it against laboratory models of colon cancer. Writing today in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, UF medicinal chemists describe how they took a generally lethal byproduct of marine cyanobacteria and made it more specifically toxic — to cancer...
The UF College of Pharmacy’s 2020 Annual Research Showcase featured a record number of poster presentations, as the popularity of the event builds year after year. The 105 poster and nine oral presentations explored diverse topics, including how not to grow marijuana and the relationship between asthma medications and type 2 diabetes. Headlining the event...
Dr. Hendrik Luesch’s new joint appointment will expand UF’s natural products research to one of the world’s prime areas for marine biodiversity.
Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D., the Debbie and Sylvia DeSantis Chair in Natural Products Drug Discovery and Development in the UF College of Pharmacy, was one of two faculty named as the UF Foundation 2014 Preeminence Term Professors. Now in its second year, the University of Florida Foundation’s Preeminence Term Professorship program supports UF’s Preeminence goals. Each...
The researchers found a more efficient way to harvest the UV-absorbing amino acid known as shinorine, which marine organisms like cyanobacteria and macroalgae produce.
Dr. Hendrik Luesch and a team of researchers have discovered a novel marine natural product that binds to a new site of tubulin, an important target for cancer drugs.
Consuming a seaweed found near the Florida Keys may offer health benefits in preventing colon cancer and inflammatory diseases of the digest tract, according to researchers in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy.
Researchers in the UF College of Pharmacy teamed with collaborators in Singapore to study a novel drug candidate with marine origins as a new method to prevent or treat vision loss.
