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We note with deep sadness the passing of Dr Norman R. Farnsworth, a member of the Advisory Board of ICT from its inception, on September 12, 2012, after a period of declining health. Dr Farnsworth held the title of Distinguished Professor of Pharmacognosy in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), an institution he first joined in 1970. He was a renowned scholar in the area of natural products drug development and herbal medicine. He founded the NAPRALERT database on medicinal plants, was the director of the Botanical Dietary Supplements for Women's Health Center at UIC, and cofounded the journal Phytomedicine. I had the privilege of knowing Norm through participating in the UIC Functional Foods for Health Program. He was a unique character, brash, funny, and outspoken—and fiercely loyal and supportive to those he employed and the students and postdocs he mentored. All in the field of natural products research will miss him.