Looking Everywhere for Cancer Drugs
/Nature’s Bounty: Revitalizing the Discovery of New Cancer Drugs from Natural Products
Cancer Currents Blog
Dr. Grkovic has spent the last several years intimately involved in improving processes for analyzing products of nature—from marine creatures to soil-dwelling fungi to plant leaves—to see whether chemical compounds within them might be starting blocks for new cancer drugs. (The Natural Products Support Group is part of the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, an NCI-sponsored contractor-operated facility.)
The work has been part of an ambitious, Cancer MoonshotSM-funded initiative, called the NCI Program for Natural Products Discovery (NPNPD), to make it easier for other researchers to mine nature for leads on new cancer drugs.
A big part of that story has taken place in the well-worn home of NCI’s Natural Products Branch, on the NCI campus in Frederick, MD.
