UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

The Citizen Science Soil Collection Program was first established in 2010 at the University of Oklahoma. As the foremost and only continuously operating program of its kind, the mission of Citizen Science Soil Collection Program is to bring citizen scientists like yourself together with biomedical researchers in an effort to find new drug-like molecules from fungi. Research has revealed that soils are home to millions of unique fungi. Many of these fungi produce mixtures of molecules known as natural products that hold tremendous promise for development into new medicines. Biomedical researchers at the University of Oklahoma's Natural Products Discovery Group are using the fungi obtained from soil samples collected by citizen scientists to find new natural products that halt cancer cell growth, stop the spread of infectious pathogens, and kill life-threatening parasites... Great science can only occur through great partnerships and we need your help by becoming part of our team. When..