Research on didemnin anticancer agents highlighted

Research highlight in Nature Middle East: “An international team involving scientists from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, now reports in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that didemnim B and its related precursors …

Moore Lab’s Kersten Awarded Frieman Prize

Roland Kersten, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego graduate student, has been selected as the 17th recipient of the Edward A. Frieman Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research, established in 1996 to honor the eighth director …

Moore Receives Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award

Bradley Moore, PhD who holds a joint appointment with the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Scripps Center for Marine Biotechnology and at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, recently received the 2013 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award …

New Center Targets Ocean Contaminants and Human Health

Capitalizing on UC San Diego’s unique ability to address environmental threats to public health, a new center based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will target emerging contaminants found naturally in common seafood dishes as well as …

Glycogenomics Debuts

“Sugar-containing microbial natural products are rich sources of potential drugs. But the vast array of glycosylation (sugar-addition) pathways makes characterizing previously unknown glycosylated natural products difficult. To speed up characterization, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Bradley S. Moore, and coworkers at the University of …