Principal speaker
Dr David J Newman, D.Phil
Eskitis Institute's Decade of Discovery 2003-2013
Natural Products as Leads to Drugs: Still Alive and Well in the 21st Century
David J Newman, D Phil
Anniversary Lecture Series
David Newman is Chief of the Natural Products Branch at the National Cancer Institute in Maryland, USA. The Natural Products Branch (NPB) is part of the US National Cancer Institute’s Developmental Therapeutics Program, which is the discovery and preclinical development component of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis.
Dr Newman's presentation outline the past, present and future of natural products as drug leads.