The American Society of Pharmacognosy

2003 ASP Award Winners

Research Achievement Award

Professor D. John Faulkner

Scripps Institution of Oceanography,

University of California at San Diego

Research Starter Grants

Professor Sylvia Urban, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Professor Sergio R. Peraza-Sanchez, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan, Mexico

Undergraduate Research Awards

Navtej K. Dhaliwal, University of Winnipeg (Athar Ata, mentor)

Mark Valdez, Hawaii Pacific University (F. David Horgen, mentor)

Alexander Hoepke, University of California, Davis (Tadeusz F. Molinski, mentor)

Shayna McHugh, Hamilton College (Robin Kinnel, mentor)

Student Research Award

Esperanza Carcache de Blanco

University of Illinois at Chicago

Matt Suffness Award

Dr. Seiichi Matsuda

Rice University, Houston, Texas

Dr. Marcel Jaspars

University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Travel Grants for Students

Lynn Brady Travel Awards

Moyosoluwa Oluwatuyi, University of London

Harald Gross, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat

Travel Awards for Graduate Students

Chen Li, University of Iowa

Fredyc Diaz, University of Illinois at Chicago

Deborah Thiem, Virginia Commonwealth University, The City University of New York

Nancy Booth, University of Illinois at Chicago

Travel Grants for Active Members

Dr. Qiuwen Mi, University of Illinois at Chicago

Kilmer Prize

Laura Johansmann

University of Mississippi

Travel to the ASP Conference and Kilmer Pin

Nature's Sunshine Student Travel Award.

Laura Grochowski, Oregon State University

2002 Arthur E. Schwarting Award

James A. Nieman, John E. Coleman, Debra J. Wallace, Edward Piers, Linette Y. Lim, Michel Roberge,^* and Raymond J. Andersen^*. Synthesis and antimitotic/cytotoxic activity of hemiasterlin derivatives. J. Nat. Prod. 2003, 66, 183-99. (published online 12-31-02).

2002 Jack L. Beal Award

Christie Boros,^* Barry Katz, Scott Mitchell, Cedric Pearce, Karra Swinbank, and Debra Taylor. Emmyguyacins A and B: Unusual glycolipids form a sterile fungus that inhibit the low-pH conformational change of hemagluttinin A during replication of influenza virus. J. Nat. Prod. 2002, 65, 108-114. $1000 and plaque.

Student Poster Awards

Differential display analysis of gene expression in the induction of pseudopterosin biosynthesis. Llanie K. Ranzer* and Russell G. Kerr, Florida Atlantic University.

Identification of Angelica sinensis raw material by a studies of analytical techniques. Shixin Deng*, Danial Fabricant, Guido F. Pauli, Harry HS Fong and Norman R. Farnsworth, University of Illinois at Chicago.

The use of historical herbal texts as a collection paradigm for the identification of anti-cancer compounds. Margret E. Andrews*, John M. Riddle and Nicholas H. Oberlies, North Carolina State University and Research Triangle Institute

A new polyhalogenated monoterpene form the red alga Plocamium cartilagineum collected in Antarctica. Kiran Kumar Avancha*, Sridevi Ankisetty, Charles D. Ansler, James B. McClintock and Bill J. Baker, University of South Florida and University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Potential cancer chemopreventive agents from Aglaia ponapensis. Alison D. Pawlus*, Juliana K. Choi, Kyung Hee Chai, Young Hwa-Kang, Norman R. Farnsworth, John Pezzuto, Rajendra Mehta and A. Douglas Kignhorn, University of Illinois at Chicago.