{"id":11556,"date":"2013-10-07T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?page_id=11556"},"modified":"2019-07-31T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:01:51","slug":"rowley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/research\/rowley\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. David Rowley- Natural Products"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natural Product Drug Discovery Research<\/h1>

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Expertise<\/strong>: Microorganisms from unexplored environments; secondary metabolites produced by marine microbes; bacterial chemical communication; and antibiotic drug discovery<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the more frightening medical trends today is our growing resistance to antibiotics, which we take for everything from ear infections to life-threatening blood conditions. As people use antibiotics for more and more ailments, the ability of germs and bacteria to mutate and adapt has increased, often making them stronger than the medicines available to treat them.<\/p>\n

Pharmacognosy is the study of the medicinal properties of compounds from such natural sources as the ocean and plants. Most of our current antibiotic drugs derive from natural products produced by terrestrial microorganisms, so as we try to stay one step ahead of the pathogens, the most logical next place to look is at marine microbes. [Continued…]<\/a><\/p>\n

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