Editors and Editorial Board of Marine Drugs

Prof. Dr. Pedro Abreu
DQ-CQFB, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Tel. 351-212-948354; Fax 351-212-948550
E-mail: pma@dq.fct.unl.pt
http://www.dq.fct.unl.pt/qoa/abreu
Keywords: natural products, medicinal plants, bioguided Isolation

Prof. Dr. Hugo Rubén Arias
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E. 2nd St., Pomona, CA 91766-1854, USA.
Tel. (909) 469-5424; Fax (909) 469-5600
Email: harias@westernu.edu
Keywords: Acetylcholine nicotinic receptors, structure-function relationship, noncompetitive antagonists, localization of binding sites, fluorescence spectroscopy, equilibrium binding.
Contribution: Gues editor, special issue Marine Drugs and Ion Channels

Prof. Dr. David J. Austin
Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Tel. 001-203-432-3962; Fax 001-203432-6144
Email: david.austin@yale.edu
http://www.chem.yale.edu/~austinlab
Keywords: marine bisguanidine natural products, chemical synthesis, cDNA phage display, cellular target identification, peptidomimetics, chemical diversity, protein phosphorylation

Professor Sir Jack E. Baldwin
Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
Tel. 044-1865-275671; Fax 044-1865-275632
E-mail: jack.baldwin@chem.ox.ac.uk
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/researchguide/jbaldwin.html
Keywords: biomimetic synthesis, biosynthesis, antibiotics, penicillin

Prof. Dr. Andre S. Bachmann
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii & Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1236 Lauhala Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA
Phone office: ++808-586-2962; Cell phone: ++808-222-1976; Fax.: ++808-586-2970
E-mail: abachmann@crch.hawaii.edu
CRCH web address: http://www.crch.org/ProfileBachmann.htm
CMB web address: http://www.hawaii.edu/cmb/facultyinfo/Bachmann.htm
Keywords: natural products, polyamines, ornithine decarboxylase, apoptosis, cell cycle regulation, neuroblastoma, chemokine receptors, drug discovery, filamins

Prof. Dr. John W. Blunt
Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, PB 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel. 0064-3-3642873; Fax 0064-3-3642110
E-mail: j.blunt@chem.canterbury.ac.nz
http://www.chem.canterbury.ac.nz/people/academics/jwb.htm
Keywords: marine natural products, bioactive natural products, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Prof. Dr. Bruce F. Bowden
Chemistry,School of Pharmacy and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville 4811 Qld, Australia
Tel. 061-747-814533; Fax 061-747-816078
E-mail: bruce.bowden@jcu.edu.au
http://www.jcu.edu.au/fmhms/school/pms/chem/staff/bowden/
Keywords: natural products, marine, pharmacologically active, cytotoxic, structure elucidation

Prof. Dr. Ernesto Fattorusso
Diaprtimento di Chimica delle Sostanze Naturali, UniversitàdiNapoli "Federico II", Via Montesano 49, I-80131 Napoli, Italy
Tel. 039-081-678503; Fax 039-081-678552
E-mail: ernesto.fattorusso@unina.it
http://www.dcsn.unina.it/Fattorusso.htm
Keywords: marine metabolites, structure elucidation, anticancer agents, antimicrobial agents, immunomodulating agents

Dr. Angelo Fontana
Bioprospecting Lab, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pozzuoli – Naples, 80078, Italy
Tel. 0039-081-8675096; Fax 0039-081-8041770
E-mail: angelo.fontana@icb.cnr.it
http:// www.icb.cnr.it
Keywords: marine natural products, chemical ecology, biosynthesis, marine invertebrates, marine plankton, marine biochemistry

Prof. Dr. Mary Garson
Marine Natural Products Group, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia
Ph 07-3365-3605; Fax 07-3365-4273; Mobile 0402-715-893
E-mail: m.garson@uq.edu.au
Keywords:

Prof. Dr. Hua-Shi Guan, Founding Editor-in-Chief 2003-2005, Honorary Editor-in-Chief
Ocean University of China, Yushan Road 5, Qingdao 266003, China
E-mail: marinedrugs@mdpi.org
http://www.ouc.edu.cn
Keywords: marine drugs, marine natural products, marine glycotechnology, marine glycochemistry

Prof. Dr. Chris M. Ireland
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, 307 Skaggs Hall, 30 South 2000 East, Rm 201, Unversity of Utah, SLC, UT 84112-5820, USA
Tel. 001-801-581-8305; Fax 001-801-585-6208
E-mail: cireland@pharm.utah.edu
http://wrctest.med.utah.edu/pharmacy/medchem/faculty/ireland.html or http://ocean.pharm.utah.edu/
Keywords: marine pharmacognosy, natural products chemistry, structure and mechanism of action of antitumor natural products, marine microbiology, structure and neurotoxicity of conotoxins

Prof. Dr. Jee H. Jung
College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
Tel. 0082-8251-5102803; Fax 0082-8251-5136754
E-mail: jhjung@pusan.ac.kr
http://home.pusan.ac.kr/~jhjung/
Keywords: marine natural product chemistry, bioactive compounds, marine sponges, cytotoxicity

Prof. Dr. Anake Kijjoa
Departamento de Química, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicasd Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, 4099-003 PORTO, Portugal
Tel +351-222062288; Fax +351-222062232
E-mail: ankijjoa@icbas.up.pt
Keywords: Characterization and Antitumor Evaluation of the Bioactive Compounds from the Marine Sponges. Search for Antifungal Compounds from the Marine Sponges. Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from the Plants of the family Euphorbiaceae. Secondary metabolites from the fungi of the genus Talaromyces.

Prof. Dr. Jun'ichi Kobayashi
Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
Phone: 008611-706-4985; Fax: 008611-706-4989
E-mail: jkobay@pharm.hokudai.ac.jp
Keywords: bioactive marine natural products, structure elucidation, mecanism of action, drug leads, bioprobes, biogenesis

Dr Ipek Kurtboke
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Health and Education, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland 4558, Australia
Tel: +61 (07) 5430 2819; Fax: +61 (07) 5430 2881
E-mail: ikurtbok@usc.edu.au
http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Science/Staff/Kurtböke.htm
Key words: Marine actinomycetes, Marine phages, Marine Biodiscovery, Marine Biotechnology, Marine Microbiology
Contribution: Gues editor, special issue Bioactive Compounds from Marine Microorganisms

Prof. Dr. Robin J. Leatherbarrow
Biological and Biophysical Chemistry Section, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, South Kensington, London SW7 2AY, UK
Fax 044-20-75945880
E-mail: r.leatherbarrow@imperial.ac.uk
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/leatherbarrow/index.htm
Keywords: peptide chemistry, enzyme inhibition, molecular recognition, proteases, NMR

Dr. José Jimeno
VP, Scientific Development, PharmaMar, Calle de la Calera, 3, 28760 Tres Cantos , Madrid, Spain
Tel. 0034-91-846-6037; Fax 0034-91-846-6001
E-mail: jjimeno@pharmamar.com
Keywords: marine based anticancer research, developmental strategies, clinical research

Dr. Stuart J. Mickel
Novartis Pharma AG, Lichtstrasse 35, WKL-684.2.31, 4052 Basel, Switzerland
Tel 004161 696 29 52
E-mail: stuart_john.mickel@novartis.com
Keywords: natural product synthesis, anti-cancer natural products, process research and scale-up.

Prof. Dr. Tadeusz F. Molinski
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Tel. 001-530-7526358; Fax 001-530-7528995
E-mail: tfmolinski@ucdavis.edu
http://www-chem.ucdavis.edu/groups/molinski/
Keywords: marine natural products, synthesis, medicinal chemistry, heterocycles, porifera, cyanobacteria

Prof. Dr. Michio Murata
Department of Chemstry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-16 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Tel. 081-66850-5774; Fax 081-66850-5774
E-mail: murata@ch.wani.osaka-u.ac.jp
http://www.ch.wani.osaka-u.ac.jp/lab/murata/welcome-english.htm
Keywords: structure elucidation, NMR, solid-state NMR, antibiotics, toxin

Dr. Taiko Oda
Department of Basic Biological Sciences, Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy, Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
Tel: 81-3-5400-2497; Fax: 81-3-5400-2497
E-mail: oda-ti@kyoritsu-ph.ac.jp
Keywords: microbial transformation, microtubule, microtubule inhibitor, natural and synthetic estrogen, transcription factor, chemokine, inflammatory cytokine

Prof. Dr. George Perry
College of Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 79249-0661, USA
Tel. +1 210-458-4450; Fax: +1 210-458-4445
email: george.perry@utsa.edu
http://bio.utsa.edu/faculty/perry.html
Keywords: mechanism of formation and physiological consequences of the cytopathology of Alzheimer disease; the mechanism for RNA-based redox metal binding; the consequences of RNA oxidation on protein synthesis rate and fidelity; the role of redox active metals in mediating prooxidant and antioxidant properties; the signal transduction pathways altered in Alzheimer disease that allow neurons to evade apoptosis; mechanism of phosphorylation control of oxidative damage to neurofilament proteins.

Prof. Dr. Pei-Yuan Qian
Associate Professor in Biology, Director, Coastal Marine Laboratory (CML), Associate Director, Atmospheric, Marine and Coastal Environment Program (AMCE), Director, MSc. Environmental Science Program, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, President, Pacific Institutes of Marine Sciences (PIMS)
Tel. 0852-2358-7331 (office in biology), 2358-8395 (office in CML); Fax 2358-1559 (biology), 2719-9102 (CML)
E-mail: boqianpy@ust.hk
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/~worms/pro/qianp103.html
Keywords: marine mobial ecology, marine bioactive substances, antimicrobial agents, marine biotoxins

Prof. Dr. Vassilios Roussis
University of Athens, School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, GR 15771, Athens, Greece.
Tel. 0030-210-7274-592; Fax 0030-210-7274-592
E-mail: roussis@pharm.uoa.gr
Keywords: marine natural products, chemotaxonomy, chemical ecology

Dr. Diwan S. Rawat
Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India
Phone No: 91-11-27667465
E-mail: diwanrawat@yahoo.com
dsrawat@chemistry.du.ac.in
URL: www.geocities.com/diwanrawat
http://www.chemdu.ac.in/html/diwan_rawat.htm
Keywords: Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Marine Natural Products, Heterocycles, Porphyrines, Catalysis, New Synthetic Methodologies

Prof. Dr. Michael K. Stoskopf
Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, 4700 Hillsborough St. Raleigh, NC 27606, USA
Tel. 001-919-5136279; Fax 001-919-5136528 (direct), 001-919-5136336 (secondary)
E-mail: michael_stoskopf@ncsu.edu
http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/project/environmed/
Keywords: marine metabonomics, environmental pharmacokinetics, glycolipid structure, lipid profiling, marine animal health risk assessment

Prof. Dr. Daisuke Uemura
Professor of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
Tel. 081-52-7893654; Fax 081-52-7893654
E-mail: uemura@chem3.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp
http://yuki.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp/yuki/index.html
Keywords: marine natural products chemistry, mode of action, isolation and structure determination, spectroscopic analysis, synthesis

Prof. Dr. Bin-Gui Wang
Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanhai Road 7, Qingdao 266071, China
Tel. 0086-532-82898553; Fax 0086-532-82880645
Email: wangbg@ms.qdio.ac.cn
Keywords: natural products chemistry, bioactive compounds, drug discovery, structure determination

Prof. Dr. Peng George Wang
Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 876 Biological Sciences Building, 484 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Tel. 001-614-2929884, 001-614-2928704 (L); Fax 001-614-6883106, 001-614-6884643 (L, phone & fax)
E-mail: pgwang@chemistry.ohio-state.edu, wang.892@osu.edu
http://wang.biosci.ohio-state.edu/
Keywords: natural products, antibiotics, carbohydrates, antioxidants, nitric oxide, sugar, polysaccharides, glycoconjugates

Dr. Yang-Chang Wu
Provost for University R&D, Professor, Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
Tel. +886-7-3121101p2197; Fax +886-7-3114773
E-mail: yachwu@kmu.edu.tw
Keywords: natural product medicinal chemistry, bioactive compounds

The Editors and Editorial Board during 2003-2005