Marine Drugs

Prof. Dr. Bill J. Baker

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Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CHE 205, Tampa, FL 33620-5250, USA
Interests: biodiscovery; cold-water chemistry; infectious disease drug discovery; marine invertebrates, fungi, algae; chemical ecology; biosynthesis; genome mining
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Prof. Dr. Anake Kijjoa

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Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar & CIIMAR, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: antibacterial compounds from higher plants; marine invertebrates; soil and marine-derived fungi; cosmetic ingredients from marine resources; natural biopesticides
* Section: Structural Studies on Marine Natural Products
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Prof. Dr. Vassilios Roussis

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Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 157 72 Athens, Greece
Interests: biomedical applications; electrospinning; nanofibers; hybrid materials; marine biopolymers
* Section: Marine Chemoecology for Drug Discovery
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Prof. Dr. Marialuisa Menna

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Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Via Domenico Montesano, 49 – 80131, Naples, Italy
Interests: natural products chemistry; NMR spectroscopy; small molecules structure elucidation; bioactive marine metabolites; synthetic and medicinal chemistry; chemical libraries; marine-inspired leads to drugs
* Section: Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry of Marine Natural Products
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Dr. Hitoshi Sashiwa

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Kaneka Co., Ltd, 5-1-1 Torikai-Nishi, Settsu, Osaka 566-0072, Japan
Interests: chemical modification of chitin and chitosan and their biomedical applications; biodegradable polymer; bio-based polymer
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Dr. Ipek Kurtboke

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School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD 4558, Australia
Interests: microbial ecology and diversity; microbial systematics; biodiscovery; microbial biotechnology applied; environmental and industrial microbiology; marine microbiology; biological control; actinomycetology; bacteriophages
* Section: Marine Biotechnology Related to Drug Discovery or Production
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Prof. Dr. Marc Diederich

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Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Building 29 Room 223, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: oncology; signal transduction; cell death; inflammation
* Section: Marine Pharmacology
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Prof. Dr. Yue-Wei Guo

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Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Interests: marine fauna and flora; chemistry and bioactivity of natural products; marine chemoecology; marine drug research
* Section: Marine-Derived Ingredients for Drugs, Cosmeceuticals and Nutraceuticals
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Prof. Dr. Hermann Ehrlich

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Center for Advanced Technology, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
Interests: marine biomaterials; biominerals; biocomposites and biomimetics
* Section: Biomaterials of Marine Origin
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Dr. Andrew Turner

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Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth Laboratory, Lowestoft, UK
Interests: assessment of new marine toxin threats; cyanobacterial toxins; method development; reference materials; rapid testing methods; one health impacts
* Section: Marine Toxins
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Dr. Niuris Acosta

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Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Interests: biocatalysis; biopolymers; biomaterials; sustainable chemistry; chitooligosaccharides; chitosan; chitin

Prof. Dr. David Adams

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Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI), University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Interests: acetylcholine nicotinic receptors; voltage-gated ion channels; venom peptides; conotoxins; structure-function relationship; electrophysiology; nociception
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Dr. Vinayak Agarwal

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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Interests: natural products; genomics; mass spectrometry; analytical chemistry

Prof. Dr. Fernando Albericio

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1. School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
2. Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: antimicrobial peptides; solid-phase chemistry; combinatorial chemistry; drug delivery systems; peptide drug conjugates; orthogonal chemistry; drug discovery; biomaterials
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Dr. Alberto Amato

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Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, IRIG-CEA Grenoble 1è Avenue des Martyrs, CEDEX 9, 38 054 Grenoble, France
Interests: biotechnology; transcriptomics; genomics; lipidomics; microalgae
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Dr. Yaroslav A. Andreev

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1. Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, RAS, GSP-7, ul. Miklukho-Maklaya, 16/10, 117997 Moscow, Russia
2. Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Interests: neuronal receptors; peptides; biologically active substances; neurons; inflammation; pain; recombinant proteins; ASIC channels; TRP channels; antimicrobial peptides
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Prof. Dr. Masayoshi Arai

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Laboratory of Natural Products for Drug Discovery, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, 1-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Interests: marine natural products; chemical biology; drug discovery

Dr. Romulo Araoz

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CNRS/ Institut de Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, UMR9197 CEA/ DRF/ Institut Frédéric Joliot/ SIMOPRO/ Université Paris-Saclay Toxines, Récepteurs et Canaux ioniques CEA Saclay, Bât. 152, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
Interests: marine natural products

Prof. Dr. Hugo Rubén Arias

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OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, Tulsa, OK, USA
Interests: ligand-gated ion channels; nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; GABAergic receptors; depression and antidepressants; anxiety and anxiolytics; Alzheimer's disease; schizophrenia; chronic pain; addictions
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Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Arizza

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1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (STEBICEF), Università di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
2. NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Interests: isolation and characterization of bioactive peptides from marine invertebrate; bioprospecting of bioactive molecules from biomass deriving from the industrial processing of marine animals

Prof. Dr. Conxita Avila

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Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences (BEECA), Faculty of Biology, and Biodiversity Research Institute (IrBIO), University of Barcelona, Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: marine invertebrates; marine chemical ecology and Antarctic benthos

Dr. Javier Ávila-Román

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Department of Pharmacology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
Interests: marine microalgae; inflammation; oxylipins; inflammatory bowel disease; colon cancer; inflammatory skin diseases
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Prof. Dr. Francesc Xavier Avilés

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Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus Universitari, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: proteolytic enzymes and inhibitors; natural/synthetic inhibitors and ligands; structure-function; proteomics; molecular imaging; drug-discovery and screening
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Prof. Dr. Asunción Barbero

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Departamento de Química Orgánica, Valladolid, Spain
Interests: synthesis of heterocycles; organosilanos; natural products; stereoselective cyclizations
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Prof. Dr. Paola Barraja

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Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Interests: synthesis of heterocyclic compounds; antitumor agents; cystic fibrosis; kinases; antimitotic agents
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Prof. Dr. Colin Barrow

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Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University, 75 Pigdons Road, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
Interests: marine biotechnology; functional foods; nutraceutical development; lipid chemistry; omega-3 and marine oils; sustainable bioproducts; bioactive extraction and characterization; marine biorefinery; food innovation and industrial translation
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Prof. Dr. Yehuda Benayahu

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School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
Interests: soft coral taxonomy and biology; symbiotic algae; marine invertebrates; biomaterials; marine natural products and environmentally-friendly antifouling paints
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Prof. Dr. Mehdi A. Beniddir

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Équipe “Chimie des Substances Naturelles” BioCIS, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 17 Avenue des Sciences, 91400 Orsay, France
Interests: natural products; chemoinformatics; metabolomics pipelines
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Dr. Kirsten Benkendorff

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Marine Ecology Research Centre, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Military Road, Lismore NSW 2480, Australia
Interests: bioactive compounds from marine molluscs; marine pigments and dyes; molluscan immune systems
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Prof. Dr. John P. Berry

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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University (FIU), 354/332 Marine Science, Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000 NE 151st St., North Miami, FL 33181, USA
Interests: cyanobacteria; toxins; bioactive compounds; zebrafish embryo model; natural products
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