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New Zealand
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
23708
World Ranking
6760
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2000 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

John W. Blunt is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, focusing on research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans subfields including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Molecular Biology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Blunt's research topics cover a range of subjects, including:

  • International Maritime Law Issues
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species

Their recent publications include:

  • "Fifty years of capacity building in the search for new marine natural products," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The Benefits of Collaboration," 2023, Marine Drugs

Blunt has frequently collaborated with a number of co-authors, such as:

  • Murray H. G. Munro
  • Miguel C. Leal
  • Jaime M. Anaya-Rojas
  • Carlos J. Melián
  • Ricardo Calado

Blunt's studies have been published primarily in the following venues:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Marine Drugs

In recognition of their academic contributions, they were awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Marine natural products.

    John W. Blunt;Brent R. Copp;Murray H. G. Munro;Peter T. Northcote

  • 13C n.m.r. spectra of steroids —a survey and commentary†

    J. W. Blunt;J. B. Stothers

  • 25-Hydroxycholecalciferol. A biologically active metabolite of vitamin D3

    J W Blunt;H F DeLuca;H K Schnoes

  • Nodularin, microcystin, and the configuration of Adda

    Kenneth L. Rinehart;Kenichi. Harada;Michio. Namikoshi;Choryu. Chen

  • Review: Marine natural products

    John W. Blunt;Brent R. Copp;Murray H.G. Munro;Peter T. Northcote

  • The discovery and development of marine compounds with pharmaceutical potential.

    Murray H.G. Munro;John W. Blunt;Eric J. Dumdei;Sarah J.H. Hickford

  • Mycalamide A, an antiviral compound from a New Zealand sponge of the genus Mycale

    Nigel B. Perry;John W. Blunt;Murray H. G. Munro;Lewis K. Pannell

  • The guttiferones, HIV-inhibitory benzophenones from Symphonia globulifera, Garcinia livingstonei, Garcinia ovalifolia and Clusia rosea

    Kirk R. Gustafson;John W. Blunt;Murray H.G. Munro;Richard W. Fuller

  • Anti-HIV michellamines from Ancistrocladus korupensis.

    Michael R. Boyd;Yali F. Hallock;John H. CardellinaII;Kirk P. Manfredi

  • Korupensamines A-D, Novel Antimalarial Alkaloids from Ancistrocladus korupensis

    Yali F. Hallock;Kirk P. Manfredi;John W. Blunt;John H. Cardellina

  • Marine natural products.

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  • Marine natural products.

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  • Cytotoxic pigments from new zealand sponges of the genus latrunculia : discorhabdins a, b and c

    Nigel B. Perry;John W. Blunt;Murray H.G. Munro

  • Alkaloids from the antarctic sponge Kirkpatrickia varialosa.

    Nigel B. Perry;Laurent Ettouati;Marc Litaudon;John W. Blunt

  • Discorhabdin C, a highly cytotoxic pigment from a sponge of the genus Latrunculia

    Nigel B. Perry;John W. Blunt;John D. McCombs;Murray H. G. Munro

  • Novel alkaloids from the tropical plant Ancistrocladus abbreviatus inhibit cell killing by HIV-1 and HIV-2.

    Kirk P. Manfredi;John W. Blunt;John H. Cardellina;James B. McMahon

  • Evolving Trends in the Dereplication of Natural Product Extracts: New Methodology for Rapid, Small-Scale Investigation of Natural Product Extracts

    Gerhard Lang;Nor Ainy Mayhudin;Maya I. Mitova;Lin Sun

  • Pateamine: a potent cytotoxin from the New Zealand Marine sponge, mycale sp.

    Peter T. Northcote;John W. Blunt;Murray H.G. Munro

  • Antiviral and antitumor agents from a new zealand sponge mycale sp 2. structures and solution conformations of mycalamides a and b

    Nigel B. Perry;John W. Blunt;Murray H. G. Munro;Andrew M. Thompson

  • Marine natural products.

    Unknown

  • Discorhabdin D, an antitumor alkaloid from the sponges Latrunculia brevis and Prianos sp.

    Nigel B. Perry;John W. Blunt;Murray H. G. Munro;Tatsuo Higa

  • Bioactive Marine Alkaloids

    S Urban;S J H. Hickford;J W Blunt;M H G. Munro

  • Alkaloids from the antarctic sponge Kirkpatrickia varialosa. Part 2: Variolin A and N(3′)-methyl tetrahydrovariolin B

    Golakoti Trimurtulu;D.John Faulkner;Nigel B. Perry;Laurent Ettouati

  • Communesins G and H, new alkaloids from the psychrotolerant fungus Penicillium rivulum.

    Petur W. Dalsgaard;John W. Blunt;Murray H. G. Munro;Jens C. Frisvad

  • Comparison of the Activities of the Truncated Halichondrin B Analog NSC 707389 (E7389) with Those of the Parent Compound and a Proposed Binding Site on Tubulin

    Donnette A. Dabydeen;James C. Burnett;Ruoli Bai;Pascal Verdier-Pinard

  • Marine natural products.

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  • Marine natural products.

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  • Marine natural products.

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  • Marine natural products.

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Frequent Co-Authors

Murray H. G. Munro
Murray H. G. Munro University of Canterbury
Nigel B. Perry
Nigel B. Perry University of Otago
Lewis K. Pannell
Lewis K. Pannell National Institutes of Health
Hector F. DeLuca
Hector F. DeLuca University of Wisconsin–Madison
James B. McMahon
James B. McMahon National Institutes of Health
John H. Cardellina
John H. Cardellina Montana State University
Gerhard Bringmann
Gerhard Bringmann University of Würzburg
Brent R. Copp
Brent R. Copp University of Auckland
Colin J. Barrow
Colin J. Barrow Deakin University
Michael R. Boyd
Michael R. Boyd University of South Alabama

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