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Endowed professorships are among the highest honors a college can bestow on a faculty member and are reserved for scholars of national and international acclaim.

Hendrik Luesch’s discovery and complete chemical and pharmacological characterization of a novel marine natural product that can potentially fight cancer has earned him a 2021 UF Innovation of the Year award.

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...

Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D., a professor and chair of medicinal chemistry and the Debbie and Sylvia DeSantis Chair in Natural Products Drug Discovery and Development, received the Golden Medal Award for his presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Herbal and Traditional Medicine.

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.

Led by principal investigator, Rob Huigens, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry, the grant aims to establish a drug discovery pipeline to generate and identify new small molecules that possess anticancer activities.

Known as the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, the grant will fund several of Huigens’ research projects, including efforts to develop compounds that will eliminate bacterial biofilm-associated infections.

With the funding from the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, Ding aims to access and expand chemical diversity of microbes through the use of new, innovative strategies.

A UF College of Pharmacy researcher team led by Dr. Hendrik Luesch recently developed a novel molecule based on marine cyanobacteria, Apra S10, to target pancreatic cancer cells.

Luesch presented on the expanding chemical space for drug discovery at the conference in Kuwait City.