IMPACT FACTOR 5.118 an Open Access Journal by MDPI Marine Drugs Research in Spain Guest Editors: Message from the Guest Editors Prof. Dr. Jaime Rodríguez Spain is surrounded for near 8000 km of coastline, which Departamento de Química makes it one of the most important countries to study the Fundamental. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de A chemistry and the biology of marine life. Compounds from Coruña, Campus da Zapateira classic marine natural product studies are dated from the s/n, 15071 A Coruña, Spain beginning of the 1970s, with the first publications from
[email protected] marine organisms of the Canary Atlantic. These papers were published from one of the pioneers of marine natural Dr. Fernando Reyes products in Spain, late Prof. Antonio Gonzalez at the Fundación MEDINA, Avda del Conocimiento 34, Parque University of La Laguna in the Canary Islands, who set the Tecnológico Ciencias Salud, E- precedent for some other research groups from the 18016 Granada, Spain University of Cadiz, University of Salamanca, University of fernando.reyes@ Santiago de Compostela, or CSIC. medinaandalucia.es In this Special Issue on “Marine Drugs Research in Spain”, Dr. Javier Fernández we will pay tribute to these research schools, providing Universidad de la Laguna (ULL), Spanish researchers and institutions with a platform for Instituto Universitario de Bio- Orgáncia Antonio González publishing biomedical and chemical studies of substances (IUBOAG), 38206 San Cristobal de of marine origin. We welcome papers focused on structure La Laguna, Spain elucidation and the synthesis of marine compounds, or any
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