Qualifications & Memberships
Research Interests
The marine flora and fauna of NZ is being explored in a systematic fashion by the Marine Chemistry Group to identify those species that elaborate, or are host to symbionts that possess biological activity. Research activities of the group include the detection, isolation and structure determination of new antiviral or anticancer agents from bioactive NZ marine organisms, the isolation and cultivation of bioactive marine fungi and the synthesis of polymer therapeutics for use as targeted anticancer and anti-HIV drugs.
Recent Publications
- Blunt JW. and Munro MHG. (2007) Dictionary of Marine Natural Products with CD-ROM. Boca Raton: Chapman and Hall/CRC.
- Leal MC., Anaya-Rojas JM., Munro MHG., Blunt JW., Melian CJ., Calado R. and Lürig MD. (2020) Fifty years of capacity building in the search for new marine natural products. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117(39): 24165-24172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007610117.
- Blunt JW., Copp BR., Keyzers RA., Munro MHG. and Prinsep MR. (2017) Marine natural products. Natural Product Reports 34(3): 235-294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6np00124f.
- Blunt JW., Copp BR., Keyzers RA., Munro MHG. and Prinsep MR. (2016) Marine natural products. Natural Product Reports 33(3): 382-431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5np00156k.
- Leal MC., Hilário A., Munro MHG., Blunt JW. and Calado R. (2016) Natural products discovery needs improved taxonomic and geographic information. Natural Product Reports 33(6): 747-750. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5np00130g.