The NPR Lecture Award was presented to 2011 winner Christian Hertweck at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Pharmacognosy in San Diego last month. Professor Christian Hertweck from the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research in Jena, Germany was selected for his contribution to the field of biosynthesis.
- NPR Editorial Board Chair Professor Bradley Moore presents Professor Christian Hertweck with his award. Photograph courtesy of Andrew Schultz
The NPR Lecture Award is awarded to a researcher who has made a significant contribution to the field of natural products and who has also had some involvement with the journal. Professor Hertweck has authored a number of articles for NPR and you can view his most recent articles below:
The chemistry and biology of cytochalasans
Kirstin Scherlach, Daniela Boettger, Nicole Remme and Christian Hertweck
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2010, 27, 869-886
Type II polyketide synthases: gaining a deeper insight into enzymatic teamwork
Christian Hertweck, Andriy Luzhetskyy, Yuri Rebets and Andreas Bechthold
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2007, 24, 162-190
