Department of Pharmacology
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
Midwestern University
555 31st Street
Downers Grove, IL 60515

Phone: (630) 515-6951
Fax: (630) 515-6295
E-mail: amayer@midwestern.edu

MARINE PHARMACOLOGY LINKS

• http://www.mdpi.org/marinedrugs/. Marine Drugs, is a journal on the research, development and production of drugs from the sea, including marine natural product chemistry: Marine Drugs publishes  peer-refereed scientific articles online quarterly and is an open access online journal. More information on the journal can be found at the website shown above.
• http://www.pharmamar.es/en/about/.  Founded in 1986, PharmaMar main objective is the research, development and marketing of marine-origin anticancer agents for the treatment of diseases involving tumors. PharmaMar is  located in Madrid, Spain with a subsidiary company, PharmaMar USA, in Cambridge, Mass.  PharmaMar is an operating unit of Zeltia, a publicly traded Spanish holding company founded in 1939.
• http://www.hboi.edu/dbmr/dbmr_home.html. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution’s,  Division of Biomedical Marine Research iaddresses critical human health problems through chemical and biological research on marine organisms and their chemical constituents. Implementation of the Division’s  mission is achieved through a multidisciplinary team approach consisting of sample acquisition, cell culture, and molecular biology of marine organisms, and chemical and biological studies of chemical components derived from these organisms that show potential as new therapeutic agents or biomedical research tools.
• http://www.nereuspharm.com/. Nereus Pharmaceutical's main asset is drug discovery from the chemical diversity produced by marine microorganisms combined with state-of-the-art chemistry and target-oriented and whole cell rapid throughput screening.  In parallel to the historical importance of soil microorganisms for drug discovery, access to marine microorganisms, the largest reservoir of microbial diversity known, and the ability to culture them, provides Nereus with an immense resource and significant advantage in discovering new classes of drugs.

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