Organismos marinhos como fonte de novos fármacos: histórico & perspectivas Marine organisms as a source of new pharmaceuticals: history and perspectives

Abstract

Though sharing only a short part on the natural products timeline, the studies on marine products has already handed in four new drugs to the clinical arsenal and brought up a long and promising list of unique molecules to pre-clinical and clinical trials. Thus, as the available analytical resources improve and the interest of large pharmaceutical companies arises, medical use of marine products has definitely become a reality.

Keywords

• marine biotechnology
• natural products
• marine drugs