19 September 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Marine Drugs

Marine Drugs (ISSN: 1660-3397) is pleased to announce that the following 30 researchers have been added to the journal’s 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board and congratulates them on becoming part of the Marine Drugs community!

Name: Dr. Celso Alves
Affiliation: MARE—Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Polytechnic University of Leiria, 2520-630 Peniche, Portugal
Homepage: https://www.mare-centre.pt/en/user/486  
Research interests: marine natural products; biotechnological applications; pharmaceutical applications; signal transduction; anticancer activities; compounds isolation; anti-inflammatory activity; neuroprotective activity

Name: Dr. Piyush Baindara
Affiliation: Animal Science Research Center, Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B5cdQW0AAAAJ&hl=en  
Research interests: discovery and characterization of novel antimicrobial peptides including bacteriocins, lanthipeptides, and human defensins; antimicrobial drug resistance; peptide-based vaccine development; infectious agents and disease pathogenesis; anticancer therapeutics

Name: Dr. Martina Čagalj
Affiliation: University Department of Marine Studies, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Homepage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcagalj/?originalSubdomain=hr  
Research interests: seaweeds; marine natural products; blue biotechnology

Name: Dr. Daniela Carbone
Affiliation: Department of Biological Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Via Archirafi, 32-90123 Palermo, Italy
Homepage: https://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/c/daniela.carbone  
Research interests: marine alkaloids; heterocycles; drug discovery; synthesis; bioactive compounds; antitumor activity; antibiofilm activity; kinase inhibitors; small molecules

Name: Dr. Marcello Casertano
Affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy
Homepage: https://www.docenti.unina.it/#!/professor/4d415243454c4c4f434153455254414e4f4353524d434c39325232394239363353/riferimenti  
Research interests: marine bioactive products; organic chemistry; NMR spectroscopy; stereostructural elucidation; quinone reactivity; multitarget agents; diversity-oriented synthesis approach

Name: Dr. Angela Casillo
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy
Homepage: https://www.docenti.unina.it/#!/professor/414e47454c41434153494c4c4f43534c4e474c3838443434483933314f/riferimenti  
Research interests: polysaccharides; microbial glycans; bioactive molecules; lipopolysaccharides; extracellular membrane vesicles; NMR; mass spectrometry

Name: Dr. Zhongbin Cheng
Affiliation: School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Homepage: https://pharm.hainanu.edu.cn/info/1200/9013.htm  
Research interests: marine fungi; penicillium; Aspergillus; metabolites; antitumor; antibacterial

Name: Dr. Xiaxia Di
Affiliation: NIVA―Norsk institutt for vannforskning/Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo, Norway
Homepage: https://www.niva.no/en/employees/xiaxia-di  
Research interests: algae; biomass; marine natural products; anti-inflammatory; bioactivity; biotechnology

Name: Dr. Rafael Alexandre Faria da Costa Félix
Affiliation: LAVQ—Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry, REQUIMTE—Network of Chemistry and Technology, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
Homepage: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/A315-5CB0-097C  
Research interests: cascade valorization of biomass for multi-industry development; natural products

Name: Dr. Carina Félix
Affiliation: MARE—Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, ESTM, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, 2520-641 Peniche, Portugal
Homepage: https://www.mare-centre.pt/pt/user/10097  
Research interests: biotechnology; marine resource valorization; microbiology; genomics

Name: Dr. Miguel García-Castro
Affiliation: Centro María Zambrano, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Málaga, Spain
Homepage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-garc%C3%ADa-castro-6b37778a/  
Research interests: organic chemistry; organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry; methodology development; antibiotics; nanotechnology

Name: Dr. Micaela Giani Alonso
Affiliation: Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Studies “Ramón Margalef”, University of Alicante, Ap. 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X8MGmV0AAAAJ&hl=es  
Research interests: carotenoids; antioxidant; drug sciences; nanomedicine; pigments; archaea; anti-inflammatory; nutraceutical; bacterioruberin

Name: Dr. Jianying Han
Affiliation: Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Homepage: https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/31838  
Research interests: natural product chemistry; microbial bioactive metabolites; microbial biology; structure elucidation; marine natural product; biosynthesis

Name: Dr. Tippabattini Jayaramudu
Affiliation: Karen M. Swindler Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, SD 57701-3995, USA
Homepage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tippabattini-jayaramudu-ph-d-20a98926/  
Research interests: biomaterials; tissue engineering; nanomaterials; hydrogels; biopolymers; nanotechnology; cellulose; chitosan; polysaccharides and environmental remediation

Name: Prof. Dr. Seungrak Lee
Affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, Busandaehak-ro 63beon-gil 2, Geumjeong-gu, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/srlee17/professor  
Research interests: marine natural products; isolation and structural elucidation; microbiome; biosynthesis

Name: Dr. Feng Li
Affiliation: School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China  
Homepage: https://www.pharm.sdu.edu.cn/info/1058/19263.htm  
Research interests: marine natural product biosynthesis; bioinformatics

Name: Dr. Xiaowei Luo
Affiliation: Institute of Marine Drugs, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China
Homepage: https://www.gxtcmu.edu.cn/hyywyjy/yjdw/yjy/content_77551  
Research interests: marine natural products; drug discovery; lead compounds; pharmacological mechanism; marine microorganisms

Name: Dr. Elva Morretta  
Affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Via Tommaso De Amicis 95, 80131 Naples, Italy
Homepage: https://iris.unina.it/cris/rp/rp175564  
Research interests: functional proteomics; global proteomics; drug target deconvolution; mass spectrometry; biochemistry; marine bioactive compounds; nanoparticle protein corona; metabolomics; metabolite quantification

Name: Dr. Camilla Pecoraro
Affiliation: Department of Biological, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Via Archirafi 32, 90123 Palermo, Italy
Homepage: https://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/p/camilla.pecoraro  
Research interests: cancer; kinase inhibitors; nitrogen heterocycles; pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; biofilm

Name: Dr. Chin-Soon Phan
Affiliation: Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga, Latvia
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/phanlab/  
Research interests: marine natural products; microbial natural products; biosynthesis; genome mining; enzymology

Name: Dr. Zhongyang Ren
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4429-9924  
Affiliation: College of Ocean Food and Biological Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
Research interests: aquatic products; proteins; peptides; pickering emulsions

Name: Dr. Gonçalo Pereira da Rosa
Homepage: https://gba.uac.pt/member/goncalopereirarosa  
Affiliations: 1. Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Azorean Biodiversity Group & Global Change and Sustainability Institute (CHANGE), 9501-321 Ponta Delgada, Portugal; 2. LAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Research interests: natural product chemistry; isolation and identification; chromatographic techniques; synthesis and structural modification; cosmeceutical activities

Name: Dr. Iván Cheng Sánchez
Affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Homepage: www.linkedin.com/in/iván-cheng-sánchez  
Research interests: total synthesis; natural products; medicinal chemistry; PROTACs; degraders; methodology; antibiotics; antitumor; bioactive compounds

Name: Dr. Zhuo Shang
Affiliation: School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Homepage: https://faculty.sdu.edu.cn/shangzhuo/en/index.htm  
Research interests: marine natural products; structural elucidation; biosynthesis; antibiotics

Name: Dr. Lucía Soliño
Affiliation: IEO-CSIC (Vigo, Spain) and European Union Reference Laboratory for Monitoring of Marine Biotoxins, Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Vigo, Spain  
Homepage: https://vgohab.com/en/personal/lucia-solino/  
Research interests: harmful algal blooms; marine biotoxins; emerging toxins; cell-based assays; LC-MS/MS

Name: Dr. Ming-Zhi Su
Affiliation: Shandong Laboratory of Yantai Drug Discovery, Bohai Rim Advanced Research Institute for Drug Discovery, Yantai 264117, China
Homepage: https://www.baridd.ac.cn/index.php?s=index/show/index&id=2136  
Research interests: marine organisms; marine natural products; chemical biology; drug discovery

Name: Dr. Soohyun Um
Affiliation: Department of Forest Products and Biotechnology, Kookmin University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Homepage: https://cst.kookmin.ac.kr/biotechnology/professor
Research interests: microbial secondary metabolites; natural product chemistry; chemical ecology; biosynthetic pathways; bioactive compounds from actinomycetes and cross-kingdom microbial interactions

Name: Dr. Qihao Wu
Affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Homepage: https://wulabpitt.com/  
Research interests: human microbiome; xenobiotic metabolism; analytical chemistry; natural products; drug discovery and development; biochemical pharmacology; pharmacogenetics

Name: Dr. Qingxia Yuan
Affiliation: Guangxi Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Institute of Marine Drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning 530200, China
Homepage: https://www.gxtcmu.edu.cn/hyywyjy/rcpy/ssyjsds/content_78409
Research interests: marine polysaccharides; isolation and structural characterization; bioactivity; structure-activity relationships

Name: Dr. Marcello Ziaco
Affiliation: National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB), Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, NA, Italy
Homepage: https://iris.cnr.it/cris/rp/rp11706  
Research interests: organic chemistry; organic synthesis; glycolipids; drug discovery; mass spectrometry imaging; DESI-MSI

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