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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Murray H. G. Munro is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, with particular focus on surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, molecular biology, as well as management, monitoring, policy, and law aspects related to health sciences.

The scientist has contributed to research topics including:

  • International Maritime Law Issues
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Surgical Sutures and Adhesives
  • Intestinal and Peritoneal Adhesions
  • Gynecological Conditions and Treatments

Major publication venues associated with their work include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Marine Drugs
  • Value in Health
  • Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Recent papers by Murray H. G. Munro demonstrate an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating elements of medicine and marine science. Some notable publications include:

  • Fifty years of capacity building in the search for new marine natural products (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Benefits of Collaboration (2023), published in Marine Drugs
  • EE231 A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Intrauterine Spacers Used to Prevent the Formation of Intrauterine Adhesions Following Endometrial Cavity Surgery (2024), published in Value in Health
  • 12139 Hyaluronic Acid (HA) for the Prevention of Intrauterine Adhesion (IUA) Formation After Intrauterine Surgical Procedures (2024), published in Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

The scientist has frequently collaborated with several peers throughout their career. Frequent co-authors include John W. Blunt, Claire Martin, D Sobti, Jitendra Kumar, and Miguel C. Leal.

Murray H. G. Munro was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1994, indicating recognition within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Marine natural products.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Marine natural products as sources of antiviral, antimicrobial, and antineoplastic agents

    K. L. Rinehart;P. D. Shaw;L. S. Shield;J. B. Gloer

  • 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

  • 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.

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  • 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

  • The absolute stereochemistry of the New Zealand shellfish toxin gymnodimine

    Michael Stewart;John W Blunt;Murray Hg Munro;Ward T Robinson

  • A chemical screening strategy for the dereplication and prioritization of HIV-inhibitory aqueous natural products extracts.

    H I I John Cardellina;Murray H. G. Munro;Richard W. Fuller;Kirk P. Manfredi

  • New Nodularins: A General Method for Structure Assignment

    Michio Namikoshi;Byoung Wook Choi;Ryuichi Sakai;Furong Sun

  • 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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  • MARINE NATURAL PRODUCTS AS SOURCES OF ANTIVIRAL, ANTIMICROBIAL, AND ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS

    K. L. Jun. Rinehart;P. D. Shaw;L. S. Shield;J. B. Gloer

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Blunt
John W. Blunt University of Canterbury
Nigel B. Perry
Nigel B. Perry University of Otago
Lewis K. Pannell
Lewis K. Pannell National Institutes of Health
Kenneth L. Rinehart
Kenneth L. Rinehart University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Miguel Costa Leal
Miguel Costa Leal Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Brent R. Copp
Brent R. Copp University of Auckland
Colin J. Barrow
Colin J. Barrow Deakin University
John H. Cardellina
John H. Cardellina Montana State University
Michael R. Boyd
Michael R. Boyd National Cancer Institute
Ricardo Calado
Ricardo Calado University of Aveiro

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