Underneath the churning tides of the Indian and Pacific oceans lies a wealth of natural resources with the potential to heal what ails us.
A new global partnership among the University of Florida Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, or CNPD3, Singapore’s Duke-NUS Medical School and Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency, or BRIN, aims to translate the rich biodiversity of the waters surrounding Indonesia into medicines and therapeutic products for patients.
Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D., a professor in the UF Department of Medicinal Chemistry, the Debbie and Sylvia DeSantis Chair in Natural Products Drug Discovery and Development and director of CNPD3, said Indonesia is the perfect place to discover novel marine natural products because of its rich biodiversity with therapeutic potential.
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