ANNOUNCEMENT conserning a scientific seminar on 12.10.2015

ANNOUNCEMENT
On the 12-th of October, at 12.00 h, in the meeting hall of IBIR, a scientific seminar will take place according to the following program:Natural product-inspired drug discovery: general significance and recent own-research examplesPresented by:
Atanas G. AtanasovDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria.

While the costs spend per one newly introduced drug are exponentially growing, our ability to combat disease is not adequately increasing in the last few decades. This trend is associated with shifting of the focus of pharmaceutical industry mainly on libraries of synthetic compounds as drug discovery source. However, natural products have historically proven to be an excellent source of molecules with excellent therapeutic potential, and still might offer some advantages as a pool for the identification of novel drug leads. Several recent own-research examples for novel pharmacological activities of natural products will be presented. 
Acknowledgements: Supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project P25971-B23, and by the Vienna Anniversary Foundation for Higher Education (Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung der Stadt Wien) project H-297332/2014.
Everyone is welcome!