Journal of Natural Products establishes new award honoring Dr. A. Douglas Kinghorn
The Journal of Natural Products announced a new annual award honoring A. Douglas Kinghorn, BS Pharm, PhD, DSc, FRPharmS, Distinguished University Professor and Jack L. Beal Chair of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at the College of Pharmacy and a global leader in natural products research.
Established in partnership with the American Society of Pharmacognosy, the A. Douglas Kinghorn Award for Best Perspective or Review recognizes scholarship that defines and anticipates emerging scientific trends. Starting this year, the award will be presented annually at the ASP conference alongside Journal of Natural Products honors for outstanding research articles by all authors and by new investigators, including the Jack L. Beal Award.
The award underscores Dr. Kinghorn’s enduring legacy as a scientist, mentor and editor whose career has helped define the modern natural products community. Internationally recognized for his work on the isolation, characterization and biological evaluation of bioactive natural products from higher plants, Dr. Kinghorn's research has advanced the discovery of potential anticancer agents, antimicrobials, cancer chemopreventive compounds and taste-modifying substances, as well as the scientific study of botanical dietary supplements.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Kinghorn has authored or co-authored more than 600 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and edited or co-edited over 45 scientific volumes, making him one of the most prolific scholars in natural products research. His work has been supported by more than $35 million in research funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and private industry since 1980.
Dr. Kinghorn also played a pivotal leadership role in scientific publishing as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Natural Products from 1994 to 2019, helping to shape the journal as a co-publication of the American Chemical Society and the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) into a leading international forum for natural products chemistry and biology. In addition, he has served as president of both the ASP and the Society for Economic Botany and has received numerous lifetime achievement honors, including the Norman R. Farnsworth Research Achievement Award from ASP and the Egon Stahl Award in Gold from GA (Society of Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research; Darmstadt, Germany) for his contributions to natural products science.