Alcune delle Università dove si indaga questi principi antimicrobici ad ampio spettro contenuti nelle alghe e sul meccanismo di azione:

Laboratory of Viral Pathogenesis, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

Midwestern University, Chicago, Department of Pharmacology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, 555 31st Street, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA

University of London, London WC1N 1AX, UK.Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry, Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, School of Pharmacy,

Università della California , Dipartimento di Patologia Vegetale , Riverside, California 92502

Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Laboratorio di Tecnologie Farmaceutiche, Università Federale di Paraiba , Joao Pessoa, PB 58051-900, Brasile;

Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India, Center of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, , Parangipettai 608 502

Pukyong National University, Department of Chemistry, , Busan, Republic of Korea.

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation and School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences,, New South Wales, Australia….

Hokkaido University – School of Medicine – Sapporo Japan