Salvestrols

Salvestrols are a group of naturally-occurring plant compounds, discovered in 1998 as a result of the combined research of Professor Dan Burke, a pharmacologist, and Professor Gerry Potter, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Director of the Cancer Drug Discovery Group at Leicester’s De Montfort University. Potter had spent almost 20 years designing synthetic cancer drugs but realised along the way that plants have similar chemicals and started to look for natural anticancer remedies.