Xenobe Research Institute

The Xenobe Research Institute was founded by Dr. Jim La Clair in 2004 to forward Natural Product Drug Discovery. Our mission is simple : to identify new clinically relevant natural products or natural product analogs through a research environment that lacks walls. Our approach is also quite simple : programs are initated to study the function and clinical utility of terrestrial and marine natural products. Each program focuses on evaluating a single natural product or class of natural products. Once a study begins investigators are openly invited to join in our effort to complete a full preclinical study on that material. We have found that progression to the clinic is enhanced when teams of scientists from university, non-profit research, governmental and industrial settings collaborate in an open fashion.

A description of each project is provided chronologically in the table above. Individual projects are commonly-used device to store and archive natural products, a 96-welled plate. Each well depicts one program under investigation. Roll over the wells to inspect each programs and click the wells to read about them.

We are actively engaged in natural product research at all levels of the discovery process including participating in a variety of marine and terrestrial collection expeditions. Here is a photo of the crew from a recent journey to Mona Island in Puerto Rico.