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STEP Forum Explores Natural Product Drug Discovery |
By Belle Waring |
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Panel members include (from l) Dr. Alice Clark of the University of Mississippi, Dr. William Gerwick of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC-San Diego and NCI’s Dr. Gordon Cragg. |
Your cold capsule. Dad’s aspirin. Nana’s eye drops. We may take such therapies for granted, but safe and effective medications don’t grow on trees—or do they? In fact, their sources may. Since modern chemistry has not kept pace with the need to treat many illnesses, scientists are returning to nature as the inspiration
for new drugs.
Mother Nature is making a comeback.
“The NIH has always played an important
role in the discovery of drugs to improve public health,” moderator
Chris Ketchum told the crowd in Natcher Conference Center, where a recent
Staff Training in Extramural Programs
(STEP) forum explored “Drug Discovery: Is Nature the Answer?”
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