Federal stimulus dollars go to cooperative group targeting discovery of marine-derived anticancer leads

Posted On: January 28, 2010

The overall goal of the National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group (NCDDG) program is to discover marine natural product leads for cancer  chemotherapy. There are four laboratory programs operating in a close and synergistic fashion as follows:

• Lab Program #1 led by Prof. Phillip Crews (PI of this NCDDG), University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
• Lab Program #2 led by Prof. William Gerwick, Oregon State University (OSU)
• Lab Program #3 led by Dr. Amy Wright, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (HBOI)
• Lab Program #4 led by Prof. William Fenical, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego (SIO-UCSD).

Amount of Award:	$273,147
Award Date:	09/25/2009

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