Ara DerMarderosian, PhD, is professor of pharmacognosy (the study of natural products used in medicine) and Roth chair of natural products at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He is coeditor of The Review of Natural Products (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins).
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