Speakers | International Congress on Natural Products Research

OPENING LECTURE

Prof. Peter H. Seeberger

Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany

Peter H. Seeberger studied chemistry in Erlangen (Germany) and completed a PhD in biochemistry in Boulder (USA). After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Research in New York he advanced to tenured Firmenich Associate Professor of Chemistry at MIT. After six years as Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich he assumed positions as Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and Professor at the Free University of Berlin in 2009.

In addition, he serves as honorary Professor at the University of Potsdam. From 2003-2014 he was Affiliate Professor at the Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, USA). Since 2021, he is a Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) the main funding body in Germany. Since 2023, Seeberger is the Founding Director of the “Center for the Transformation of Chemistry” that received €1.25 billion funding. He is a member of the governing body of the Max-Planck Society (“Senate”) and the Veterinary University (TiHo) Hannover (“Stiftungsrat”). Professor Seeberger’s research on the chemistry and biology of carbohydrates, carbohydrate vaccine development and continuous flow synthesis of drug substances spans a broad range of topics from engineering to immunology and has been documented in over 660 peer-reviewed journal articles, four books, more than 60 patents, over 200 published abstracts and more than 950 invited lectures. He is one of the editors of the standard textbook “Essentials of Glycobiology”. His work was recognized with more than 40 international awards from the US (e.g. Arthur C. Cope Young Scholar Award, Horace B. Isbell Award, Claude S. Hudson Award from the American Chemical Society), Germany (e.g. Körber Prize for European Sciences, Wissenschaftspreis des Stifterverbandes, Emil Fischer Medal), Holland (Havinga Medal), Israel (Honorary Lifetime Member Israel Chemical Society), Japan (Yoshimasa Hirata Gold Medal), Switzerland (“The 100 Most Important Swiss”), the Philippines (“Gusi Peace Prize”), the Czech Republic (Dr. h.c. Univ. Chem. Tech. Prague) and international organizations (Whistler Award 2012, Int. Carboh. Soc.). In 2013 he was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg (Prussian) Academy of Sciences.Peter H. Seeberger greatly supports the idea of open access publishing as the Editor-in-Chief of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry and serves on the editorial advisory boards of many other journals.Through his work in the area of neglected diseases, Peter Seeberger has become involved in philanthropic causes. He is a co-founder of the Tesfa-Ilg “Hope for Africa” Foundation that aims at improving health care in Ethiopia that recently helped to build a bed-net factory and established an IT training center.The research in the Seeberger laboratory has given rise to nine successful companies in the USA, Switzerland, Denmark and Germany.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Prof. Ikuro Abe

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Ikuro Abe is Professor of Natural Products Chemistry at Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo (since 2009). He received his B.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1989) from The University of Tokyo. After two years postdoctoral research with Professor Guy Ourisson at the CNRS Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, and mostly with Professor Michel Rohmer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse in France (1989-1991), he moved to the USA to work with Professor Glenn D. Prestwich at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1991-1996) and then at the University of Utah (1996-1998).

Prof. Günther K. Bonn

University of Innsbruck, Austria

Professor Günther K. Bonn is the founder, CEO and Scientific Director of the ADSI - Austrian Drug Screening Institute GmbH, Austria, a company of the University of Innsbruck, which bridges the gap between basic research and industry. He is also Chair of the Foundation Board of Trustees of the Michael A. Popp Nature Science Foundation and initiator and founder of the Phytovalley-Tirol initiative.

Prof. Guido F. Pauli

University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC College of Pharmacy, United States

Trained as a pharmacistwith specialization in pharmaceutical analysis, his doctoral degree is in pharmaceutical biology/pharmacognosy. Heseeks to enhance our understanding of complex NPs as health products and sources of new drugs. His basic andtranslational research on bioactive natural products involves diverse materials from plants, actinomycetes, and dietarysupplements. He develops analytical and NP technologies such as quantitative NMR spectroscopy and countercurrentseparation, applied to clinical interventions, anti-TB antibiotics, dental materials, and innovation of NP drug discoveryworkflows.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Judith M. Rollinger

University of Vienna, Austria

After her PhD in Pharmacognosy (University of Innsbruck/Austria), Judith Rollinger extended her studies to the fields of phytochemistry, ethnopharmacology, and molecular modelling, and implemented computational approaches in natural product science (habilitation in 2007). She was appointed full Professor at her present institution in 2014 leading the ‘Phytochemistry and Biodiscovery’ group. Prof. Rollinger is senator of the University of Vienna and project leader in various national and international projects.

Prof. Dr. Robin Teufel

University of Basel, Switzerland

Robin Teufel studied Biology at the University of Freiburg (Germany) with a focus onMicrobiology and obtained his Diploma in 2008 in the group ofProf. Georg Fuchs. During his succeeding PhD studies in thesame place, he investigated the enzymology of bacterialaromatic catabolism until 2011. He then conductedpostdoctoral research at the University of California San Diego(USA) in the group of Prof. Bradley Moore until December2014, where he explored the biosynthesis of bacterialmeroterpenoid and polyketide natural products. He thenreturned to the University of Freiburg in 2015 as independentDFG-funded Emmy Noether (and later Heisenberg) researchgroup leader working on the biosynthesis and enzymology ofvarious bacterial aromatic natural products.

Dr Valerie Paul

Head Scientist, Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, United States

Dr Valerie Paul has been the Director and Head Scientist of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida since 2002. She received her Ph.D. in Marine Biology in 1985 from the University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and then served on the faculty of the University of Guam Marine Laboratory from 1985-2002. In Guam, Valerie built a research program focused on marine chemical ecology and coral reef studies. Her ongoing research interests include marine cyanobacteria and algal blooms, coral reef ecology, marine chemical ecology and natural products.

Prof. Dong-Chan Oh

Seoul National University, South Korea

Prof. Dong-Chan Oh studied oceanography and chemistry at Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea. In 2006, he received his Ph.D. in marine natural product chemistry from Scripps Institution of Oceanography under the supervision of Prof. William Fenical. After graduating, he served as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School before becoming an instructor under Prof. Jon Clardy. He began his independent academic career at the Natural Products Research Institute, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University in 2009.

Prof. De-an Guo

Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Prof. De-an Guo serves as director of the Shanghai TCM Research Center and National Engineering Research Center of TCM Standardization Technology at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. Degree of Pharmacognosy at Beijing Medical University in 1990 and proceeded postdoctoral research at Texas Tech University (1993.6-1996.10). His main research focused on the TCM comprehensive analysis and quality standard development for the main-stream pharmacopoeias.

Prof. Dr Alain Goossens

Ghent University, Belgium

Prof. Alain Goossens obtained his Master in Biology-Plant Biotechnology at Ghent University (1992) and his PhD in Marc Van Montagu’s and Geert Angenon’s lab at the Laboratory of Genetics, Ghent University (1998), studying plant seed storage protein synthesis. During his PhD, he has also been a visiting researcher at CIAT in Cali (Colombia) in the group of César Cardona. After obtaining his PhD degree, he performed postdoctoral studies for 2 years at the IBMCP-UPV in Valencia (Spain) in the lab of Ramón Serrano, supported by a TMR-Marie Curie EU postdoctoral fellowship, and working on yeast salt tolerance.

Prof. Maria Giovanna Chini

University of Molise, Italy

Prof. Maria Giovanna Chini obtained her master’s degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology in 2005 at the University of Naples Federico II and completed her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Salerno in 2012. During this period, she was a Visiting Ph.D. Student at the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Dr. Craig Butts. She is now Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry at the Department of Biosciences and Territory (DiBT), University of Molise. In 2023, she was an invited Professor for Teaching activity at the Department of Natural Sciences and Medicine of Ilia State University (Georgia) within the ERASMUS+ INTERNATIONAL CREDIT MOBILITY framework.

Prof. Yun-Sil Lee

Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Prof. Yun-Sil Lee is a full professor at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at EwhaWomans University. She earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in the College of Pharmacy atEwha Womans University. Following her academic journey, she pursued postdoctoral researchat the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the USA. For nearly two decades, she worked as aPrincipal Scientist at the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, where shecontributed significantly to research on radiation damage modulators.

Prof. Séverine Derbré

University of Angers, France

Séverine Derbré is a scientist in the field of natural products (NPs) and a trained pharmacist. Aftergraduating from the Faculty of Pharmacy in Angers (France) in 2002, she obtained her PhD in thechemistry of NPs under the supervision of Pr. E. Poupon at the University of Paris 11 in 2006. Shethen worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the French Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission (CEASaclay, France) with Y. Ambroise in the laboratory of C. Mioskowski and B. Rousseau.In 2007, she was recruited by the University of Angers, Faculty of Pharmacy, as Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy and joined the SONAS laboratory headed by Pr. P. Richomme.

Prof. Sachiko Tsukamoto

Kumamoto University, Japan

Prof Sachiko Tsukamoto since 2009 is Professor Kumamoto University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science. Previously she was affiliated: 2008 Chiba University, Professor, Graduate School of Science 2000 Kanazawa University, Associate Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Her research interests focuse on Marine Biomedical Research and searching for drug leads/chemical probes from natural resources including microorganisms, marine organisms, and plants.

Prof. Mehdi Beniddir

Université Paris-Saclay, France

Mehdi Beniddir is a Professor of Natural Product Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Paris-Saclay University. His research interests include the streamlined discovery and structure elucidation of intricate natural substances from plants, marine invertebrates and micro-organisms using MS-based dereplication approaches.

Prof. Michel Frédérich

University of Liège, Belgium

Michel Frédérich was born in Verviers (Belgium) in 1973. He was graduated Pharmacist in1996 at the University of Liège (Belgium) where he obtained his PhD in PharmaceuticalSciences in 2000, and the Agrégation de l’Enseignement Supérieur degree in 2007. Herealized during the year 2003 a postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Pharmacognosy ofProfessor Verpoorte at the University of Leiden (Netherlands). Laureate of three awards, hewas Senior Researcher at the F.N.R.S. (Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique) from2004 to 2010. In 2010 he became lecturer at the University of Liège and he is currently fullProfessor in Pharmacognosy.

Prof. Chung Sub Kim

Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Prof. Chung Sub Kim is an Assistant Professor of School of Pharmacy at SungkyunkwanUniversity, South Korea. He graduated from Sungkyunkwan University with a B.S. andPh.D. in Pharmacy in 2010 and 2015, respectively, under the guidance of Prof. Kang Ro Leefocused on the plant natural product chemistry. After a four-year postdoctoral research withProf. Jason Crawford in Yale University, he started his independent career at SungkyunkwanUniversity in 2020.

Prof. Norberto Peporine Lopes

Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

Prof. Norberto Peporine Lopes is currently Professor of Organic Chemistry at Physic and Chemistry Department of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto from University of São Paulo since 1998. He is Temporary Visiting Professor at Food Chemistry Department of Munster University (German) since 2009. Prof. Lopes has extensive experience in the natural products chemistry and analytical chemistry focus on mass spectrometry.

Prof. Young Hae Choi

Leiden University, The Netherlands

Young graduated on College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University in1992. In 2000, he received PhD diploma from the same university. The title of his PhD thesisis ‘Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Nitrogen-Containing Natural Products’. After two yearsof post-doc experience working at the application of mass spectrometry to the identificationof natural products, he moved to Leiden University, the Netherlands (the present position). Inthe last 20 years, he developed diverse metabolomics methods of plant and microorganisms. Using the developed methods, a wide range of biological model systems were investigatedfor the research questions related to biology, physiology, and ecology.

Prof. Toshio Morikawa

Kindai University, Japan

Prof. Toshio Morikawa was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1972. He received a B.Sc. fromKyoto Pharmaceutical University (KPU) in 1995 and an M.Sc. from the GraduateSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, KPU, in 1997. He started his academic career underProf. Dr. Masayuki Yoshikawa at KPU in 2001 and received a Ph.D. in 2002. In 2005,he moved to Pharmaceutical Research and Technology Institute, Kindai University(formerly known as Kinki University), as a Lecturer (Prof. Dr. Osamu Muraoka) andwas promoted to Associate Professor (P.I.) in 2010 and then to a Professor in 2015.

Prof. Toshiaki Makino

Nagoya City University, Japan

Prof. Toshiaki Makino is a pharmacist and pharmacognosist. Hegraduated from Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, KyotoUniversity, Japan, to awarded Ph.D in 2000. Then, he started his career asan assistant professor at the Department of Kampo Medicinal Sciences,Hokkaido College of Pharmacy, Japan where he learned the theory oftraditional Japanese Kampo medicine and its research methodology.

Prof. Young Pyo Jang

Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Prof. Young Pyo Jang is a professor of Pharmacognosy lab at College of Pharmacy of Kyung HeeUniversity, Seoul, South Korea. He received a bachelors degree from Seoul National University School of Pharmacy in 1992 and a doctorate from the same university in 2001.

Prof. David Sherman

University of Michigan, United States

Professor Sherman received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at UC Santa Cruz(Phil Crews, research advisor) and Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry at ColumbiaUniversity with Gilbert Stork. After four years at Biogen, he moved to the John InnesInstitute as a research scientist with Sir Prof. David A. Hopwood. Following 13 years atthe University of Minnesota, Prof. Sherman moved to the University of Michigan and isnow the Hans W. Vahlteich Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry,and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology.

Prof. Rolf Müller

Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Germany

Professor Rolf Müller is Managing Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland(HIPS) since 2009, and heads the Department of “Microbial Natural Products” (MINS). Since October2003, he has held a chair as professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Saarland University. Rolf is involved in several national and international research networks and collaborations with theaim to identify novel bioactive natural products, to analyze their biosynthesis and structures and todevelop their biological and chemical properties towards novel (pre)clinical candidates.

Prof. Milen Georgiev

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Prof. Milen Georgiev is heading a Lab of Metabolomics @ Institute ofMicrobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has 20 years of experience innatural products field and has published in excess of 200 papers (i.a., NatureReviews Drug Discovery, Molecular Plant, Genome Biology, Biomedicine &Pharmacotherapy, and Plant Biotechnology Journal, among others). He hasdelivered 60+ invited lectures in 25 different countries.

Dr. Paula N. Brown

British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Director of Applied Research for Natural Health & Food Products at the BC Institute of Technology and holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Phytoanalytics. She received her PhD in Plant Chemistry from the University of British Columbia and MSc in Natural Products Synthesis from Simon Fraser University. An internationally recognized expert in methods of analysis and natural products chemistry, Dr. Brown is a Fellow of AOAC International and serves as has an advisor to the American Botanical Council and United States Pharmacopoeia.

Prof Leandros A. Skaltsounis

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Leandros A. Skaltsounis is Full Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Valorization of Bioactive Natural Products, Faculty of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He served 4 years as vice Dean and 9 years as Dean of the Faculty. He obtained his Ph.D. (Doctorat d’Etat ès Sciences Pharmaceutiqes, Distinction with Honors) from Descartes University, Paris V, in 1987. Then he spent six years as academic staff in University PARIS V. Since 1993 he is a permanent member of the Faculty of Pharmacy in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. At present he leads a research group of more than 30 researchers focusing on natural product-based lead discovery for various applications, in therapeutics, functional foods, cosmetics and agrochemicals. He is awarded with 95 research grants of EU, GSRT (Greece) and other organizations.

Prof. Miroslav Strnad

Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

Miroslav Strnad is professor in the Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Institute of Experimental Botany ASCR & Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic (rustreg.upol.cz). Strnad’s current focus is on the research and development of a new generation of compounds with anti-viral, anti-proliferative, anti-angiogenic and anti-senescence properties, the molecular mechanisms of their action and the potential combinatory therapies based on these compounds, new phytohormone derived cosmetic as well as plant growth regulators for plant biotechnology and agriculture.

Prof. Jean‐Luc Wolfender

Université de Genève, Switzerland

Jean‐Luc Wolfender is Professor at the University of Geneva where he leads the phytochemistrybioactive natural product (PBNP) group. Since the 1990s he helped introduce LC-MS and LC-NMR forthe profiling of natural extracts for dereplication for accelerating the discovery of novel bioactivecompounds. He is currently developing innovative metabolomic approaches based on massspectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in various aspects of natural product researchand includes LC-MS computational approaches for data mining with a focus on generic assessmentnatural extracts composition.

Prof. Francisco A. Macías

University of Cádiz, Spain

Francisco A. Macías is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cádiz, (Spain)since 2000. He has been awarded the 1999 Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Prize from thePhytochemical Society of Europe (PSE); 2011 Molish Award from the InternationalAllelopathy Society (IAS); 2015 Gold Medal of the European Forum 2001; 2021 Top 2%of Scientists in the world, according to the Ranking of the World Scientists, StanfordUniversity, USA. Their general philosophy is to learn from nature.

Prof. Leslie Boudesocque Delaye

Synthèse et Isolement de Molécules BioActives , France

Leslie Boudesocque Delaye graduated from the Faculté de Pharmacie de Reims Champagne-Ardenne in 2008 with a PharmD. She completed her PhD on Centrifugal Partition Chromatography purification processes for natural peptides under the supervision of Pr JH Renault in 2010.

Prof. Dr. Ilkay Erdogan Orhan

Gazi University, Turkey

Prof. Dr. Ilkay Erdogan Orhan holds a Pharmacist degree (1993) from Gazi University (Ankara, Türkiye), 1st M.Sc. degree from the Department of Pharmacognosy at the same Faculty (1996) with a young scientist scholarship provided by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TUBITAK). Then, she was awarded her second M.Sc. degree in Marine Natural Product Chemistry in 1998 at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan, supported by a Monbusho scholarship. She earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University (Ankara, Türkiye) in 2002. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Winnipeg (Canada) in 2003 under the NATO-TUBITAK fellowship program.

She was promoted to Assoc. Prof. position by the Higher Education Council (Türkiye) in 2004 and to full professor in 2009. Dr. Orhan was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus (2011-2014) and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Gazi University in Ankara (2016-2024). She is Vice President of the International Scientific Evaluation Board of the Austrian Drug Screening Institute (ADSI) Dr. Orhan received several awards such as Young Woman Scientist Award in Asia continent by OWSD (Organization of Women in Science in Developing Countries) & Elsevier, Science Award in Biology by COMSTECH (OIC Standing Committee on Science and Technological Cooperation) in 2010, Young Woman Scientist Award (in Life Sciences) by L’Oreal & Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2011, and Honor Award by Gazi University in 2011, Innovation Award for Women in Turkey in 2015, Science Award by Turkish Association of Pharmacists in 2016, Golden Mortar Science Award in Pharmacy in 2017, Silver Medal for Patent in International Invention Fair by Turkish Ministry of Science and Technology in 2017 as well as Best Academic Invention Medal by International Federation of Invention Associations (IFIA) in 2018. She also received the TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences) Science Award in Chemistry and a Certificate of Outstanding Service and Achievement from the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Foundation (TÜSİAV) in 2024. She is the principal member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) and was the Representative of Southeast Europe & Turkey Region for the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE) for 2019-2023.She is the author of more than 295 scientific papers listed by SCE, 47 articles in other scientific journals, 24 book chapters, 4 patents (Turkish, US, & EP), 6 patent applications, and 4 books. Her h index is 53 (Web of Science) and 59 (SCOPUS) with over 14500 citations. Her research interests are chemistry and bioactivities of natural products, phytocosmetics, phytotherapy, and aromatherapy. She is currently Associate Editor of Phytomedicine and Editor-in-Chief of Turkish Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

AWARD WINNERS

Dr Cherry Lifeng Li

Baptist University, Hong Kong

- Willmar Schwabe Young Talent Prize- Dr Cherry Lifeng Li is a Research Assistant Professor at the Teaching and Research Division of the School of Chinese Medicine at Hong Kong Baptist University. With expertise in quality control, structural characterization, and research on in vivo fate and metabolic tracking of natural polysaccharides, she has made significant contributions to the field. Li has authored 27 SCI papers, with individual citations exceeding 104, demonstrating her impact on the scientific community. Her H-index of 10 reflects the quality and influence of her research. Additionally, she holds 8 patents, both domestically and internationally, showcasing her innovative work. Her research focus is currently on exploring natural polysaccharide-protein interactions and developing a nature-sourced polymer-based drug delivery system.

Dr Andreas Bender

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

- GA Synergy Award - The second GA synergy award, in 2024, has been awarded to emphasize the importance, and synergy, between computational and experimental methods in the field.The awardee, Prof. Andreas Bender from the University of Cambridge, and CITO of Pangea Bio, contributed to a better understanding of characteristics and limitations of current widely used synergy metrics, as well as, in particular, the interplay between network biology, predictive modelling, and experimental validation, with an emphasis on natural products and those from plant medicines. He presented his research at the International Congress on Natural Products Research in Krakow, Poland, which was held from 13-17 July 2024.

Dr Valentina Parisi

University of Salerno, Italy

- ESA Bronze - Dr Valentina Parisi has been graduated cum laude in Pharmacy in 2019 discussing a thesis about the isolation and characterization of diterpenes from Zhumeria majdae. During PhD the focus of her research was the chemical-biological investigation of medicinal and food plants, and their derived waste, traditionally used in Campania Region (Southern Italy) with the aim to valorise the ethnobotanical knowledge and promote the circular economy of a disadvantaged territory. The results of this research have been reporter in the PhD thesis titled “Bioprospecting from Campania Region to promote the sustainable use of biodiversity” discussed in April 2023. She is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Salerno, financed by National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) within the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC) . Her current research is focused on the phytochemical study of plants as sources of potential bioactive molecules, together with the use of NMR-based metabolomics to profile plant, food and biological matrixes. Dr Parisi has published up to now 23 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

InstitutTeknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia

The prestigious Willmar Schwabe Award 2024 is bestowed to Dr. Sri Fatmawati from InstitutTeknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia. Dr. Fatmawati has published over 50papers in international journals, amassing an impressive 2,061 citations. She has madesignificant contributions to the discovery of chemical constituents in Indonesian traditionalmedicines and the recognition of their pharmacological relevance, identifying key bioactivitiesin these plants. Additionally, she is committed to supporting young scientists, local herbalfarmers, and mentoring female researchers, demonstrating her dedication to promotingmedicinal plant and natural product research among underrepresented groups.It is a pleasure to award Dr. Fatmawati, with this prize that acknowledges her achievementsand fosters the scientific study of traditionally used plants.