Prof. Alessandra Braca
Department of Pharmacy
Bioorganic Chemistry and Biopharmaceuticals
University of Pisa
Via Bonanno 30
56126 Pisa
Italy
Phone: +39 050 570322
Email: alessandra.braca@farm.unipi.it
Natural products chemistry, extraction, isolation and identification of new biologically active natural compounds, botanicals quality control
Member of YRW since 2014, Egon-Stahl-Award in Silver in 2007, Editor of Planta Medica since 2016, Secretary of the Italian Society of Phytochemistry and Science of Medicinal, Food and Fragrant plants (SIF) during the years 2004-2009
GA as the leader Society in the development of projects concerning medicinal plants; new ideas and project exchange between young researchers; promoting the interaction between GA and SIF
Dr. Emerson Ferreira Queiroz
Phytochimie et Produits Naturels Bioactifs
Ecole de Pharmacie Genève Lausanne
Section des Sciences Pharmaceutiques
Université de Genève CMU –
Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1211 GENEVE 4, Switzerland
OFFICE number B06.1715a (6th floor of the CMU 5 building)
Phone: +41 22 379 3641
Fax: +41 22 379 3399
Email: Emerson.Ferreira@unige.ch
Lead discovery based on bioactive natural products, metabolite profiling using hyphenated techniques, preparative chromatography, biotransformation
Member of the GA Advisory Board, Editorial Board Member of Phytochemistry, Associate Editor of the Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society
Work to achieve excellence
The GA must be a “world organization”.
Use videos (“webinars”) to share knowledge
Use the web to promote the GA and attract new members
Organization of training workshops for young scientists
in developing countries (example: African network)
Prof. Dr. Robert Fürst
Goethe University Frankfurt
Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology
Max-von-Laue-Str. 9D – 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
Phone: +49/69/798/29655
Fax: +49/69/798/763/29662
Email: fuerst@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Molecular pharmacology of natural products with a special focus on their actions on vascular endothelial cells (inflammation, angiogenesis, metastasis)
Elected Member of the GA Advisory Board since 2016;
Head of the GA Working Group “Young Researchers” since 2016; Co-Editor-in-Chief of Planta Medica since 2019
My aims as member of the GA BoD are:
- To foster the impact and visibility of GA in particular in the group of young scientists (e.g. by webinars, workshops etc.)
- To further increase the scientific success of the societies’ official publication organ Planta Medica.
Stefan Gafner, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
American Botanical Council
6200 Manor Rd
Austin, TX 78723, US
Phone: +1 512-926-4900
Fax: +1 512-926-2345
Email: stefan@herbalgram.org
Stefan is the technical director of the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP), editor of the Botanical Adulterants Monitor, and writes articles for HerbalGram and HerbalEGram.
He is one of the ABC experts providing answers to inquiries from ABC members.
Stefan has been with ABC since 2013
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maria Halabalaki
Division of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry
Department of Pharmacy
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
Panepistimioupoli Zografou
Athens
Greece
Phone: +30 210 727 4781
Email: mariahal@pharm.uoa.gr
Egon Stahl award in silver in 2015
Natural products (NP) chemistry, qualitative and quantitative determination of NP in different matrices (extracts, final products, biological fluids, feces), metabolization studies, quality control, LC-MS and NMR-based metabolomics
Member of GA since 2003 and new member of the GA advisory board
Prof. Dr. Oliver Kayser
Technische Universität Dortmund | Technische Biochemie
Emil-Figge-Strasse 66
44227 Dortmund
Germany
Phone: +49 231 7557 487
Fax: +49 231 7557 489
Email: oliver.kayser@bci.tu-dortmund.de
Plant Biotechnology, Genetics, Phytochemical Analysis, Cannabis and Cannabinoids
2015 – 2019 Vice President GA, 2013-2015 Board Member GA, 2015 Organiser Satellite Meeting “Plant Biotechnology”, since 2019 Editor in Chief Planta Medica
- Real internationalisation of GA on the executive level
- Strengthen GA as top society for phytochemistry, pharmacology and analytics in the world
- Open GA for new research fields (e.g. biotechnology) to make our society more attractive for more scientists
- Improving communication with new social media channels
Prof. Dr. Luiz Carlos Klein Júnior
Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
Rua Uruguai 456
88302202 Itaji
Brazil
Pharmacognosy, the use of chemometrics to study natural products, pharmaceutical chemistry.
Member of the Advisory Board of GA; Egon-Stahl-Award in Silver in 2021.
It would be my main interest to create a highly cooperative environment, where new connections could be created, particularly between young researchers and well established groups.
Prof. Ronald J Quinn
Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery
Griffith University
Brisbane 4111, Australia
Phone: +61/41 871 3254
Email: r.quinn@griffith.edu.au
Research projects aim to decode how the metabolome and proteome, two of the most important classes of molecules in biology, interact at the molecular level.
This will generate deeper insight into the function of metabolites (natural products) which have a central role in communication, intraspecies interactions and interactions with therapeutic targets.
Expected outcomes from the projects include new annotations of the metabolome-proteome interaction landscape, and a new mass spectrometry-based platform for unbiased and rapid discovery of natural product-based probes.
These project aims to solve a key problem in natural product discovery: the inability to elucidate their biological targets.
Therapeutic areas of interest include tuberculosis, malaria, Parkinson’s disease and SARS-CoV-2.
Prof. Univ.
Krystyna Skalicka-Woźniak
Chair and Department of Pharmacognosy
with Medicinal Plant Unit
Medical University of Lublin
1 Chodzki Street,
20-093 Lublin, Poland
Phone: +48 81 448 7086
Fax: +48 81 448 7080
Email: kskalicka@pharmacognosy.org
Pharmacognosy, natural products, chomatography, bio-activity guided isolation
Member of GA Travel Grant Committee, Head of the Committee in 2018
Member of Work Group “Young Researchers”
General Secretary of PSE
Aim: a) to use own expirience in organisation of new events and projects like eg. Webinars b) to concentrate on young scientists joining GA and suport young generation d) to extend collaboration between other organisation in order to develop scientific work related to medicinal plants
Dr. Cica Vissiennon
(1) Universität Leipzig
Medizinische Fakultät
Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik
Härtelstr. 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
(2) Repha GmbH Biologische Arzneimittel
Alt-Godshorn 87, 30855 Langenhagen, Germany
Phone: +49 341 97 15 708
Fax: +49 341 97 15 709
Email: cica.vissiennon@uni-leipzig.de
Pharmacology; Phytochemistry; Ethnomedicine of Western Africa
GA African Research Network (chair)
„Eine Schule für Kingon e.V.” (non-profit society for the promotion of primary education in West Africa)
I believe that the scientific exploration and preservation of our natural medicinal heritage is of utmost importance and needs to be supported especially in less developed countries.
I therefore strive to foster the development of supportive network structures in these regions to support especially young scientists in their scientific development.
GA-Social-Media-Coordinator
Dr. Antigoni Cheilari
Laboratory of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry
Department of Pharmacy
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771
Athens
Greece
Phone: +30 2107274524
Email: cheilarianti@pharm.uoa.gr
Search of new lead compounds of plant origin.
Recording and assessing information of folk medicine in the Balkans.
Discovery of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants of ethnopharmacological sources.
Development and application of (q)NMR methodologies for the quality control of medicinal plants.
Application of chemometrics approaches for the discovery of novel bioactive molecules.
NMR and LC-MS -based metabolic profiling, FCPC and HPTLC.
Valorization of medicinal and aromatic plants by-products.
(1.1. 2022 – 31.12. 2023)
