Pfizer joins marines: enters collaboration to test microorganisms for medicinal activity.
Executive Summary
PFIZER LOOKS TO MARINE BIOLOGY TO EXPAND NATURAL PRODUCTS PROGRAM to find medicinally active compounds with the signing of three new collaborative research agreements. The collaborations, with Russell Hill, PhD, and Frank Robb, PhD, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute/Center of Marine Biotechnology, and Norman Wainwright, PhD, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., will study the potential of marine microorganisms.