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 …
Farooq Azam, Cathy Constable, Brad Moore and Tony Haymet acclaimed for excellence in science and leadership
Four leading scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been honored with awards that recognize their accomplishments in their respective fields of study. The awards span from marine microbiology to geophysics to pharmaceutical sciences and ocean …
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 …
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 …
“A massively spectacular view of the chemical lives of microbes”
“Watrous et al. offer a brand new way of viewing secreted microbial products that holds great promise in providing the next quantum leap in understanding the fascinating world of microbial chemical ecology” http://www.pnas.org/content/109/26/10128.full
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 …
New ‘Genome Mining’ Technique Streamlines Discovery from Nature
A newly developed method for microscopically extracting, or “mining,” information from genomes could represent a significant boost in the search for new therapeutic drugs and improve science’s understanding of basic functions such as how cells communicate with one another. Analyzing …
Researchers Develop Simple Method to Create Natural Drug Products
Until now, only the intricate machinery inside cells could take a mix of enzyme ingredients, blend them together and deliver a natural product with an elaborate chemical structure such as penicillin. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography …
Scripps/UC San Diego Scientists Solve Genome of Marine Organism Producing Promising Disease-Fighting Agents
Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have solved the genomic puzzle of an organism discovered in the oceans with potential for producing compounds showing promise in treating diseases such …