{"id":31520,"date":"2014-04-04T14:03:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T06:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=31520"},"modified":"2014-04-04T14:03:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T06:03:05","slug":"uog-lecture-series-features-chemist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-lecture-series-features-chemist\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG lecture series features chemist"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31524\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/issx9999ns154745.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31524\" alt=\"Dr. Hendrik Luesch\" src=\"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/issx9999ns154745-300x279.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Hendrik Luesch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of Guam president Dr. Robert A. Underwood presents the first speaker in the Presidential Lecture Series of 2014, Dr. Hendrik Luesch, the Debbie and Sylvia DeSantis Chair in Natural Products Drug Discovery and Development, Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Developmen, Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Florida.<br \/>\nLuesch will speak on Guam\u2019s marine life and resources as a starting point for drug discovery and development. His research has identified promising compounds for combating cancer, as well as Alzheimer\u2019s disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will be held at 5:30pm on Thursday, April 10, at the College of Liberal Arts &amp; Social Sciences Lecture Hall at the University of Guam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Dr. Luesch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hendrik Luesch received his Diplom in Chemistry at the University of Siegen (Germany) in 1997.\u00a0 He studied marine natural products chemistry at the University of Hawaii at M&amp;#257;noa where he obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2002 under the guidance of Prof. Richard E. Moore.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, he joined the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Florida.\u00a0 In 2011, he was awarded the three-year University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship and, in 2012, the endowed Frank A. Duckworth Eminent Scholar Chair in Drug Research and Development.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2013, he is the endowed Debbie and Sylvia DeSantis Chair in Natural Products Drug Discovery and Development where he leads a multidisciplinary marine natural products drug discovery and development program.\u00a0 In 2013, he founded and now directs the Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development (CNPD3) at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and the full presentation abstract, visit www.uog.edu or contact Louise Toves at 735-2995 or email lmtoves@uguam.uog.edu.\u00a0<em>(UOG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Guam president Dr. Robert A. Underwood presents the first speaker in the Presidential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":31524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,21,190],"class_list":["post-31520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-life","tag-natural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}