William H. GerwickWilliam Gerwick has joint appointments at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego. His research focuses on the bioactive natural products of marine algae an cyanobacteria, their application in biomedicine, and their biosynthesis using various molecular biology and genomic approaches. He has also been involved in developing new methods for the structure elucidation of complex natural products, and this has recently involved development of artificial intelligence methods applied to NMR spectroscopy. His laboratory is also involved in the chemical synthesis of analogs of natural products his group has discovered and that have promising antiparasitic activity. He participated as a Co-Editor and chapter author in the first edition of Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Seas (2008). He has served as president of the American Society of Pharmacognosy, chaired and co-chaired several major research conferences, and was associate editor of the Journal of Natural Products Chemistry for several years. He recently served as Director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at Scripps Oceanography. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Pharmacognosy and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His research group has published over 500 research papers and holds more than 25 patents, and he has trained approximately 100 PhD and postdoctoral scholars in his 40-year career in the natural products sciences. Read More Read Less