Biomedical Marine Research

Only a fraction of the diversity of the marine environment has been explored for novel bioactive chemicals that can be developed as new drugs and/or agrochemicals. Increased sophistication in the tools available to explore the deep sea has expanded the habitats that can be sampled and has greatly increased the opportunities for discovery of new species and the chemical compounds they produce.

In addition, with improvements in our understanding of the biochemistry behind a variety of diseases, better methods have been developed for rapidly determining the biomedical potential of the metabolites produced by marine organisms. The emphasis of this section of the proposed Research Centre will be the discovery of new drugs from marine organisms.

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