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Interests: natural products; anti-parasitic activity; anti-cancer activity; structure elucidation; spectroscopy; computer-aided structure-activity relationship studies
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Special Issue in Molecules: Proceedings of the the 4th Young Researcher Meeting, Münster, March 13-14, 2015
Special Issue in Molecules: COST CM1307: Targeted Chemotherapy towards Diseases Caused by Endoparasites—Proceedings in Medicinal and Natural Product Chemistry
Special Issue in Molecules: Special Issue in Honor of Professor Nikolaus (Klaus) Fischer on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday
Special Issue in Molecules: Feature Papers to Celebrate Molecules Reaches 20,000 Articles Milestone
Special Issue in Molecules: Exclusive Papers of the Editorial Board Members of the Natural Products Chemistry Section of Molecules
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Products for Drug Discovery in the 21st Century: Innovations for Novel Therapeutics

Interests: natural products; structure elucidation; essential oils; NMR spectroscopy; GC-MS and LC-MS
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Special Issue in Nutrients: Health-Promoting Components of Alliaceae
Special Issue in Molecules: Essential Oils as Antimicrobial and Anti-infectious Agents II
Special Issue in Molecules: Modernist Women in Phytochemistry and Natural Products Chemistry

2. Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland
Interests: molecular medicine; biotechnology; digital health; open innovation; natural products
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Special Issue in Molecules: Selected Papers from the 8th Central European Conference ‘Chemistry towards Biology’ (CTB-2016)
Special Issue in Molecules: Selected Papers from the 46th EuroCongress on Drug Synthesis and Analysis (ECDSA-2017)
Special Issue in Molecules: Bioactive Molecules and Their Mechanisms of Action
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Research on Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics

Interests: extraction of natural products; supercritical extraction of natural products; isolation and identification of bioactive compounds; metabolomics; biosynthesis; green chemistry in the production of natural products; application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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Topical Collection in Molecules: Preanalytical Methods for Natural Products Production
Special Issue in Molecules: Theme Issue Honoring Professor Robert Verpoorte’s 75th Birthday: Past, Current and Future of Natural Products Research
Special Issue in Metabolites: Non-drug Therapies and Their Metabolic Effects in Non-communicable Diseases

Interests: isolation of marine polysaccharides from a diverse marine biomass (algae, microalgae, bacteria, etc); design of “Glycosaminoglycan-mimetics”; development of biotechnological and pharmaceutical products
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Interests: antimicrobial agents; emerging antimicrobial strategies; antimicrobial resistance; biofilms; plant secondary metabolites
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Special Issue in Antibiotics: Nature Inspired Antibiotic Adjuvants to Face the Problem of Multidrug Resistance and Biofilm Infections
Special Issue in Antibiotics: 10th Anniversary of Antibiotics - Recent Advances in Antibiotic Biosynthesis
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Mechanisms in Biofilm Formation, Tolerance and Control
Special Issue in Antibiotics: Drugs for Superbugs: Antibiotic Discovery, Modes of Action and Mechanisms of Resistance
Interests: vaccines; saccharides; conjugates; bacteria; infectious diseases
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Interests: antibacterial compounds from higher plants; marine invertebrates; soil and marine-derived fungi; cosmetic ingredients from marine resources; natural biopesticides
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Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Products for Health and Beauty
Special Issue in Molecules: Selected Papers from the Joint Symposia of MESMAP-5 & ISPBS-5
Special Issue in Molecules: Selected Papers from the 6th International Mediterranean Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MESMAP-6)
Special Issue in Molecules: Selected Papers from the 7th International Mediterranean Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MESMAP-7)
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical, Cosmeceutical and Biotechnological Potentials of Southeast Asian Marine Resources
Interests: natural products chemistry; medicinal chemistry; analytical chemistry

Interests: medicinal chemistry; natural products total synthesis; asymmetric synthesis; bioactive natural products; polymeric materials; anticancer treatments; synthesis from biowaste-derived materials; isotopically labelled materials
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Special Issue in Molecules: Lignans II
Special Issue in Molecules: Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of New Antitumor Agents

Interests: natural compounds; polyphenols; marine compounds; cancer; antimicrobial; skin; cosmetics
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Special Issue in Medicines: Natural Compounds as New Cancer Treatments
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Bioactives and Nutraceuticals in Metabolic Syndrome
Special Issue in Antioxidants: Antioxidants and Skin Protection
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Connection of Marine Natural Products and Cell Apoptosis—II
Special Issue in Antioxidants: Antioxidants and Skin Protection II
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Bioactives and Nutraceuticals in Metabolic Syndrome II
Topical Collection in Molecules: Featured Reviews in Natural Products Chemistry

Interests: natural bioactive compounds; medicinal chemistry; bioactivity and toxicology; functional applications
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Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Additives in Food II
Special Issue in Antioxidants: Antioxidant Properties of Natural Products: A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira
Topical Collection in Antioxidants: Advances in Antioxidant Ingredients from Natural Products
Special Issue in Antioxidants: Medicinal, Aromatic and Edible Plants: The Link Between Pharmacy, Food and Nutrition
Special Issue in Molecules: Medicinal, Aromatic, and Edible Plants: The Link between Pharmacy, Food, and Nutrition
Special Issue in Molecules: Steroidal and Triterpenoid Compounds: Natural Sources, Bioactivities and Applications
Special Issue in Foods: Bioactive/Nutraceutical Compounds in Plant Foods
Special Issue in Pharmaceuticals: Anticancer Compounds in Medicinal Plants
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Additives in Food III
Special Issue in Foods: Trends in Grain-Based Foods
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Biomolecules: Emerging Technologies Towards Novel Food Formulation Development
Special Issue in Antibiotics: 10th Anniversary of Antibiotics—New Resources and Strategies in the Search for Antimicrobials
Special Issue in Pharmaceuticals: Anticancer Compounds in Medicinal Plants 2022

Interests: essential oils; terpenoids; medicinal and aromatic plants

Interests: nutrition; periodontal diseases/periodontitis; oxidative stress; nutrition; aging; mitochondrial function and diseases; berries (strawberry, blueberry, bilberry, cranberry, etc.); olive oil (dietary fats); honey, polyphenols; flavonoids; antioxidants, apoptosis
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Special Issue in Antioxidants: Antioxidants and Periodontal Diseases
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Bioactive Phytochemicals and Functional Food Ingredients in Fruits and Vegetables
Special Issue in Molecules: 20th Anniversary of Molecules—Recent Advances in Natural Products
Topical Collection in Diseases: Effects of Food Antioxidants on Cardiovascular Diseases and Human Cancers
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Macro- and Micro-nutrient Antioxidants
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Bioactive Phytochemicals and Functional Food Ingredients in Fruits and Vegetables 2016
Special Issue in Nutrients: Antioxidants in Health and Disease
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Bioactive Phytochemicals and Functional Food Ingredients in Fruits and Vegetables 2017
Special Issue in Diseases: Food Bioactive Compounds and their Role in Diseases
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Bioactive Phytochemicals and Functional Food Ingredients in Fruits and Vegetables 2019
Topical Collection in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Feature Papers in Bioactives and Nutraceuticals
Special Issue in Nutrients: The Relations between Nutrition and Infectious Diseases at the Epoch of Microbiota
Special Issue in Diseases: Exclusive Papers of the Editorial Board Members (EBMs) of Diseases
Special Issue in Molecules: 25th Anniversary of Molecules—Recent Advances in Natural Products-2020
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Bioactive Phytochemicals and Functional Food Ingredients in Fruits and Vegetables 2021
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Autophagy: New Frontier and Perspective
Special Issue in Diseases: Feature Paper Special Issue for Editorial Board Members (EBMs) of Diseases
Special Issue in Molecules: The Fantastic World of Free Radicals and Antioxidants: A Themed Issue Dedicated to Professor Dr. Etsuo Niki
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Bioactive Phytochemicals and Functional Food Ingredients in Fruits and Vegetables 2022
Special Issue in Molecules: Exclusive Feature Papers in Natural Products Chemistry

Interests: biological control; green insecticides; insect behavior; ecotoxicology; repellents
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Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Together in the Fight against Arthropod-Borne Diseases: A One Health Perspective
Special Issue in Nanomaterials: Green Synthesis of Nanomaterials
Special Issue in Insects: From Insect Pheromones to Mating Disruption: Theory and Practice
Special Issue in Nanomaterials: Green Synthesis of Nanomaterials and Their Biological Applications
Special Issue in Molecules: Insecticide, Acaricide, Repellent and Antimicrobial Development
Special Issue in Chemistry: Insecticide, Acaricide, Repellent and Antimicrobial Development
Special Issue in Plants: Insecticidal Activity of Plant Secondary Metabolites
Special Issue in Insects: From Insect Pheromones to Mating Disruption: Theory and Practice (Volume II)

Interests: natural products; drug delivery; liposomes; lipid nanocarriers; micro and nanoemulsions; nanoparticles; solubility; stability; bioefficacy; oral, brain and skin delivery; PAMPA test
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Special Issue in Pharmaceutics: Bioactive Molecules from Plants: Discovery and Pharmaceutical Applications
Special Issue in Pharmaceutics: Bioactive Molecules from Plants: Discovery and Pharmaceutical Applications (Volume II)

Interests: clusterin; catechins; polyphenols; chemoprevention; prostate cancer; cell growth control; polyamines
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Special Issue in Molecules: Catechins: From Biosynthesis to Health Benefits
Special Issue in Molecules: Androgens and Prostate Cancer: In Memoram of Professor Shutsung Liao (1931–2014)

Interests: secondary metabolites; natural products chemistry; natural products as anticancer agents; antibiotic resistance modulation by natural products; targeted therapy; molecular recognition; industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.)
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Interests: natural products; phytochemistry; medicinal chemistry; drug design; radiopharmaceuticlas
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Interests: forensic toxicology; analytical toxicology; drugs; pharmacology; chromatography/mass Spectrometry
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Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Molecular Insights of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
Special Issue in Pharmaceuticals: Clinical and Forensic Toxicology: The Latest Updates
Special Issue in Medicina: Drug-Drug Interaction in Pharmacology
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Molecular Insights of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) 2.0

Interests: food chemistry; natural products; plant extracts; antioxidants; polyphenols; carotenoids; liquid chromatography; comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry
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Special Issue in Molecules: Bioactive Phenolic and Polyphenolic Compounds
Special Issue in Foods: Characterization of Bioactive Compounds in Foods and Plants Using Advanced Analytical Techniques
Special Issue in Molecules: Bioactive Phenolic and Polyphenolic Compounds-2nd Edition
Special Issue in Molecules: Food Chemistry: A Fascinating World. A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Giovanni Dugo on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday
Special Issue in Molecules: Exploring Bioactive Polyphenolic Compounds in Food and Natural Real-World Samples
Topical Collection in Encyclopedia: Bioactive Compounds in Food and Natural Products: Analysis and Biological Activities
Special Issue in Molecules: Exclusive Feature Papers in Natural Products Chemistry

Interests: integrated pest management (IPM); insect behavior; insect chemical ecology; pollinator insects; botanical insecticides; apidology and beekeeping products

Interests: bee keeping products (propolis, honeys, royal jelly, pollen); pyrrolizidine alkaloids; regulatory issues on herbal medicines (EMA, NCAs); phenolics; herbals for veterinary use
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Special Issue in Foods: Extraction, Characterization and Bioactive Properties of Plants Foods

Interests: natural product chemistry; molecular modeling computer aided; structure-activity relationship; anti-cancer compounds radiationprotection radiationmitigation; antioxidants
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Interests: natural products chemistry; plant physiology; plant -microbe interactions; plant metabolism; microbial metabolism; metabolomics; chemical ecology
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Topics: Microbiology Metabolomics

Interests: phytochemical compounds; ethnopharmacology; alimurgic plants; biological activity of natural compounds; phytocosmetics
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Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Bioactives in Anti-Obesity Therapy
Special Issue in Plants: Antioxidant Capacity of Plant Extracts

Interests: sustainable exploitation and management of seas; marine natural products, isolation, and stereostructural elucidation of new lead compounds in antimicrobial and anticancer drug discovery; QQ and the QS system in bacteria symbiotic with sponges; cyanobacteria as source of novel lead compounds and toxins
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Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Secondary Metabolite II, 2017
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Quorum Quenching Agents: Exploring Quorum Sensing Interfering Strategies in Marine Bacteria for the Development of Novel Therapeutics
Topical Collection in Marine Drugs: International Summer School on Natural Products: The Contribution of Young Researchers to Marine Inspired Products
Special Issue in Molecules: Sea-Inspired Molecules
Special Issue in Molecules: Selected Papers from the 7th European Chemical Biology Symposium 2021 (ECBS/LS EuCHEMS)
Special Issue in Sci: Mediterranean Sea Resources: Sustainable Exploitation, Management and Dissemination
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Women in Science: Their Contribution in Marine Drugs

Interests: natural product chemistry (isolation and structure elucidation); secondary/specialized metabolism; metabolic profiling; molecular modelling; docking and dynamics; bioorganic and medicinal chemistry; anti-parasitic, anti-cancer; anti-fungal; and anti-inflammatory bioactive compounds
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Interests: tropane; chemical biology; metabolic engineering; secondary metabolism; alkaloids; plant biochemistry
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Special Issue in Molecules: Advances in Plant Alkaloid Research II

Interests: herbs; essential oils; natural extracts; cytotoxicity; antimicrobial; biofilm
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Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Products Acting as Insecticides or Herbicides
Special Issue in Molecules: Chemical Compositions and Biological Activities of Essential Oils
Special Issue in Antioxidants: Antioxidant and Biological Properties of Plant Extracts
Special Issue in Applied Microbiology: Current Trends in Exploiting the Influence of Natural Substances, Compounds and Probiotics as Antimicrobial Agents for Food and Health Applications
Special Issue in Plants: Safety and Nutritional Value of Wild Edible Plants
Special Issue in Molecules: Exclusive Feature Papers in Natural Products Chemistry
Interests: plant-based pharmaceutical compounds; natural products; bioactive secondary metabolites; plant essential oils
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Special Issue in Molecules: Biological Activities of Medicinal Plants
Special Issue in Molecules: Essential Oils 2021
Special Issue in Plants: Plant Essential Oil with Biological Activity
Special Issue in Molecules: Essential Oils II

2. Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), 1, Rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France
Interests: biomaterials; polymers; polysaccharides; nanomaterials;
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Polysaccharides from Marine Environments
Special Issue in Polymers: Main Applications of Plant, Fungal and Algal Polysaccharides: Current Vision and Future Horizon
Special Issue in Molecules: Elicitation as a Wonderful Cellular Communication within the Plant
Special Issue in Molecules: Food Packaging: From Past to Future Innovation
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Polysaccharides from Africa: An Attractive Future for Biotechnology and Bioprocess Fields
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Polysaccharides in Glycosciences: From Extraction to Application
Topical Collection in Polysaccharides: Bioactive Polysaccharides
Topical Collection in Marine Drugs: Microalgal Active Biomolecules
Topical Collection in Polysaccharides: Current Opinion in Polysaccharides
Special Issue in Polymers: Polymers for Controlled/Targeted Drug and Gene Delivery
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Chitosan-Based Nanoparticles

Interests: research of new anti-infectives; development of new strategies to fight antimicrobial resistance
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Special Issue in Molecules: Antiviral Properties of Natural Products
Special Issue in Microorganisms: Oxidative Stress, as a Potent Antibacterial Mechanism of Action
Special Issue in Molecules: Biological Properties of Hydroxy Pentacyclic Triterpene Acids (HPTAs)
Special Issue in Molecules: Antimicrobial Properties of Natural Products 2.0
Special Issue in Molecules: 150th Anniversary of the Creation of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Nancy, Université de Lorraine, France
Interests: marine natural products chemistry; secondary metabolomics; NMR- and MS-based metabolomics; marine biotechnology
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Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Selected Papers from Canadian Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning Symposium
Special Issue in Metabolites: Marine Metabolomics
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Selected Papers from the 9th European Conference on Marine Natural Products
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Bioactive Compounds from Marine Sponges
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Bioactive Compounds from Marine Sponges 2020
Special Issue in Metabolites: Marine Metabolomics Volume 2
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Natural Product Chemistry: A Themed Issue Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Peter Proksch on His Research Career
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Natural Product Genomics and Metabolomics of Marine Microorganisms

Interests: phytochemistry; natural products; medicinal chemistry; HPLC; plant secondary metabolites; anti-inflammatory and anticancer activity, pharmacognosy
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Interests: determination of phenolic compounds in food and plant matrices; influence of phenolic compounds in wine sensory properties; valorization of phenolic-rich by-products
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Special Issue in Molecules: Tannin Analysis, Chemistry, and Functions II

Interests: cancer chemoprevention; nutrition; olive oil; polyphenols; natural bioactive compounds; antioxidants; oxidative stress; genotoxicity; mutagenicity; apoptosis; cell cycle regulation;
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Special Issue in Molecules: Antitumoral Properties of Natural Products
Special Issue in Molecules: Antitumoral Properties of Natural Products Ⅱ
Special Issue in Molecules: Exclusive Feature Papers in Natural Products Chemistry
Interests: natural substances chemistry; extraction (chromatographies); structural determination (NMR and mass spectrometry); total synthesis (multi-step; methodology in organometallic synthesis and asymmetric synthesis); pharmacomodulation (cytotoxic; antiparasitic; NCS)
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Interests: phytochemicals; polyphenols; biological activity; essential oils; medicinal chemistry; NMR spectroscopy; GC-MS and LC-MS
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Interests: amyloid; self-assembled materials; protein crystallography; crystalline materials

Interests: functional foods; interactions, phenolic compounds; antioxidants
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Special Issue in Molecules: Modernist Women in Phytochemistry and Natural Products Chemistry
Special Issue in Molecules: Bioactive Compounds from Plant Foods: Sources, Properties and Applications

Interests: phytochemistry; natural products; chemical synthesis; HPLC; coumarin; oxyprenylated; plant secondary metabolites identification and quantification; anti-inflammatory and anticancer activity
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Interests: plant secondary metabolism; natural products chemistry; leads finding; metabolomics; plant biotechnology
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Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Biological Properties of Plant Bioactive Compounds
Special Issue in Molecules: Exclusive Feature Papers in Natural Products Chemistry

Interests: bioorganic chemistry; natural product chemistry; NMR spectroscopy; structural biology; food chemistry
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Special Issue in Molecules: NMR Spectroscopy as a Structural and Analytical Probe of Natural Products: Emerging Advancements and Future Insights
Special Issue in Molecules: Theme Issue in Honor of Professor Atta-Ur-Rahman, FRS
Interests: obesity; inflammation; oxydative stress; lipid signalling; eating behavior
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Interests: function of food and natural products; natural products-gut micriobiome interation; flavonoid chemistry and biofunction; chemical biology; nutrigenomics

Interests: Activity-guided isolation of bioactive compounds; Structure determination of bioactive compounds; Plant-derived anti-inflammatory agents

Interests: isolation and structure elucidation of antiinfective; anticancer; chemopreventive; neuroprotective and agrochemical constituents from plants and their use in human and plant health
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Interests: bioinorganic chemistry; molecular recognition; protein structure; metallo-proteins; peptides; NMR spectroscopy; coordination chemistry; biometals

Interests: plant–microbe interaction; crop protection; biological control
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Special Issue in Molecules: Structure, Chemical Analysis, Biosynthesis, Metabolism, Molecular Engineering and Biological Functions of Phytoalexins
Special Issue in Beverages: Wine Metabolomics and Proteomics
Topical Collection in Molecules: Phytoalexins: Fundamental Aspects and Applications
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: The Role of Sugars in Plant Responses to Stress and Their Regulatory Function during Development
Special Issue in Microorganisms: The Hidden World within Plants
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: The Role of Sugars in Plant Responses to Stress and Their Regulatory Function during Development Volume 2
Special Issue in Microorganisms: The Hidden World within Plants 2.0
Interests: off-line/ on-line hyphenation of countercurrent (CCC) and Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) to structure elucidation method; two-dimensional metabolite analysis; food and medicinal plant analysis; structural elucidation of betacyanin pigments and saponins; evaluation of biological activities; natural products from agricultural residues
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Special Issue in Molecules: Countercurrent Chromatography (CCC/CPC) as Versatile Separation ‘Tool-Box’ in the Field of Natural Product Recovery
Interests: food analysis; food rheology; food additives; polysaccharides; starch; honey
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Special Issue in Molecules: Food Polysaccharides: Structure, Properties and Application

Interests: natural products; chemical biology; chemical proteomics; fluorescence
Interests: beneficial natural products in edible plants; enzyme-substrate interactions and inhibition and its implications in food and nutrition; modelling nutraceuticals activities at protein targets by using physico-chemical properties of ligands; edible plant proteins; design of novel food products and cosmetics

Interests: identification of novel, biologically active marine natural products; metabolomics of marine organisms; chemical ecology; spectroscopic identification of complex molecules
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Interests: biologically active natural products; phytochemistry; food and agricultural chemistry; ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology
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Interests: drug discovery; enzyme inhibitors; cannabinoids; psychoactive molecules; multiple sclerosis; inflammatory disorders; mental health
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Topical Collection in Molecules: Early-Career Researchers in Chemistry
Special Issue in Molecules: 27th International Conference on Arginines and Pyrimidines & 2nd International Conference on Amino Acids Nucleotides

Interests: mass spectrometry of natural products; myxobacteria; biosynthetic pathways; genome- and metabolome mining
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Special Issue in Microorganisms: New Microbial Sources of Natural Products: Their Biology, Chemistry and Biosynthetic Machinery
Special Issue in Molecules: Microbial Natural Products in the Era of Genome- and Metabolome-Mining (2nd Edition)

Interests: natural products; isolation; structure elucidation; bioactivity; biosynthesis
Interests: metabolomics; imaging mass spectrometry; natural product chemistry; microbial drug discovery; antimicrobials; plant–microbe interactions; chemical ecology; molecular ecology; endophytes; phytopathogens; biocontrol organisms; biologics
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug discovery; structure-activity relationships; design and synthesis of biologically active compounds; anticancer agents; crystal structure of biomolecules and ligand-receptor interactions, vitamin D analogs, pharmaceutical syntheses
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Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Novel Strategies in the Development of New Therapies, Drug Substances and Drug Carriers 2.0

Interests: biomaterials; natural polymers; polyphenols; lignin; tannin; micro- and nanovesicles; nanoparticles; nanofibers; targeted delivery; structure elucidation; synthetic chemistry; flow chemistry
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Interests: bio-active polyphenols; resveratrol; inflammation; bio-availability; cancer; pathologies prevention
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Special Issue in Molecules: Improvements for Resveratrol Efficacy
Special Issue in Diseases: Wine and Vine Components and Health

Interests: natural products chemistry; synthesis of natural products; medicinal chemistry; alkaloids
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Special Issue in Molecules: Improvements and Opportunities on Natural Products for Novel Drug Discovery
Interests: the bioactive metabolites derived from marine organisms (sponges and corals); marine mangrove plants and their associated microorganisms
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2. Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
Interests: marine organisms bioactive metabolites; marine natural products; marine drugs; marine microorganism; marine fungi; secondary metabolites
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Interests: phenolic compounds; green extraction; encapsulation; bioactive properties; digestion; food byproducts
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Special Issue in Molecules: Extraction, Isolation and Identification of Bioactive Compounds from Plant Extracts
Special Issue in Foods: Bioactive Compounds, Antioxidants, and Health Benefits
Special Issue in Metabolites: Proteomics and Metabolomics Studies of Food Plants

Interests: olive oil; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; functional foods; anticancer drugs; natural products
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Special Issue in Foods: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Food Analysis

Interests: honeybee products; wound healing; antibacterial activity; immunomodulation
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Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Products and Skin Diseases

Interests: antioxidants; biorefinery; food waste valorization; green processes; polyphenols
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: High-Performance Green Extraction of Natural Products
Special Issue in Antioxidants: Polyphenolic Antioxidants from Agri-Food Waste Biomass
Special Issue in Beverages: Beverage Industry By-Products As Bio-Resources of Functional Compounds

2. Interdepartmental Research Center “Nutraceuticals and Food for Health”, University of Pisa, via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: parasitic protozoa; zoonotic fungi; Leishmania spp.; Toxoplasma gondii
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Special Issue in Medicines: Biological Potential and Medical Use of Essential Oils
Special Issue in Pathogens: Animal Parasitic Diseases
Special Issue in Molecules: Bioactive Compounds against Parasite, Bacteria and Related Diseases
Special Issue in Pathogens: Bacterial, Fungal and Parasitic Zoonoses
Special Issue in Journal of Fungi: Fungal Diseases in Animals
Special Issue in Molecules: Bioactive Compounds against Parasite, Bacteria and Related Diseases – 2nd Editon

Interests: plant extract analysis; bioactive natural compounds; natural product isolation and characterization; NMR spectroscopy
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Topical Collection in Molecules: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Bioactive Natural Products
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Products in Italy

Interests: isolation of antimicrobial; mosquito larvicidal; insecticidal; acaricidal and anthelmintic secondary metabolites from tropical fungi; plants and their endophytic microbes
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Interests: pharmaceutical biology (botany); valorization of traditional medicinal and edible plants and fungi; extraction optimization of bioactive compounds from plant materials; experimental design applied to extraction and process optimization; bioactivity and chemical characterization of natural products, development of new nutraceuticals based on medicinal plants and fungi, natural products as enzyme inhibitors
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Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Product Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry
Special Issue in Antioxidants: Medicinal, Aromatic and Edible Plants: The Link Between Pharmacy, Food and Nutrition
Special Issue in Molecules: Medicinal, Aromatic, and Edible Plants: The Link between Pharmacy, Food, and Nutrition
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Product Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry II
Topics: Antioxidant Activity in Plants, Plant-Derived Bioactive Compounds and Foods

Interests: oxidative stress; reactive oxygen species; neurodegeneration; Alzheimer’s disease; Parkinson’s disease; probiotics; polyphenols; flavonoids; anthocyanins, LC/MS
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Special Issue in Molecules: Resveratrol News & Views: From the Molecular Mechanism to Nutritional and Biomedical Applications

Interests: ginseng; gintonin; gintonin-enriched fraction; ginsenosides; neurons; astrocytes; lysophosphatidic acid (LPA); LPA receptor; signaling transduction pathways; brain delivery; glycogenolysis; cell viability; collagen; donepezil; hair growth
2. Adjunct Associate Professor, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hil, NC, USA
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug discovery; natural products; antitumor; anti-virus; synthesis of bioactive compounds; chemical biology
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Interests: marine natural prodcuts; structure elucidation of natural products; antibacteiral and anti-cancer natural products
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Interests: inflammation; infection; oxidative stress; nutrition; toxicology; food safety; functional foods; natural products; anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory agents and mechanisms; bioinorganic chemistry; drug delivery
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Special Issue in Molecules: Tea Chemistry

Interests: natural products chemistry and chemical biology; drug discovery and target identification for infectious diseases; crop protection, and cancer; chemical proteomics and proteome dynamics; metabolomics
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Interests: food chemistry; natural products chemistry; nutraceuticals; mass spectrometry polyphenols; chemoprevention
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Special Issue in Molecules: Industrial Hemp Chemistry and Nutraceutical Perspectives
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Products Chemists: Leaving Our Lab in Covid-19 Emergency
Special Issue in Molecules: Bioactives and Functional Ingredients in Foods
Special Issue in Molecules: 2nd Edition of Food Bioactives: Chemical Challenges and Bio-Opportunities
Special Issue in Molecules: Bioactives and Functional Ingredients in Foods II
Special Issue in Molecules: Food Chemistry: Food Quality and New Analytical Approaches

Interests: natural products chemistry; phytoalexins; phytoanticipins; design and synthesis of paldoxins; biosynthesis and metabolism of bioactive metabolites; chemical synthesis of bioactive compounds

Interests: medicinal plants; natural bioactive compounds; phytochemical analysis; natural products chemistry
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Special Issue in Molecules: Repositioning Natural Products in Drug Discovery

Interests: medicinal chemistry; small-molecules; essential oils; naturally-occurring compounds, NAD-dependent enzymes; plant secondary metabolites; bioactive-active fractionation, phytochemicals; ethnopharmacology; biological activity of natural compounds
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Special Issue in Antibiotics: Antiprotozoal Activity of Natural Products
Special Issue in Molecules: Featured Papers on Bioactive Flavour and Fragrance Compounds 2022

Interests: lead discovery based on bioactive natural products; search for new antifungal natural products; search for new natural products against Chagas disease; investigation of plants used in traditional medicine as a source of new active compounds; search for new methods for extraction and standardization of plant extracts; investigation of methods for isolation of natural products using preparative chromatographic techniques; metabolite profiling using hyphenated techniques for the detection and dereplication of bioactive compounds from plant and microbial extracts; exploitation of microbial biotransformation for the search of new lead compounds

Interests: natural products; structure elucidation; anticancer; antimalarial; antibacterial; vector control; new natural product sources; endophytes; lichens and mycobionts; soil and marine microbes
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Special Issue in Molecules: Trends in Natural Products Research in North America
Special Issue in Molecules: Structure Elucidation and Development of Bioactive Compounds from Symbiotic Organisms

Interests: natural products; food chemistry and analytical chemistry; clinical nutrition; phytochemistry and phytotherapy; supplement and nutraceutical formulation
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Special Issue in Diversity: Ethnobotany, Medicinal Plants and Biodiversity Conservation
Special Issue in Molecules: Exclusive Feature Papers in Natural Products Chemistry
Interests: natural products; (hemi)synthesis; biological screening
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Special Issue in Molecules: Coumarins, Xanthones and Related Compounds

Interests: table and winegrapes; wine chemistry; vinification process; grape whitering process; grape and wine chemical quality parameters; ozone; anthocyanins; tannins; grape and wine sensory evaluation

Interests: chitosan; gray mold; postharvest decay
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Special Issue in Molecules: Chitosan and Natural Compounds for the Control of Preharvest and Postharvest Diseases of Horticultural Commodities
Special Issue in Sustainability: Social Farming: From Multifunctional Agriculture to a New Community Welfare Note

Interests: biomedical applications; electrospinning; nanofibers; hybrid materials; marine biopolymers
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Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Bioactive Halogenated Metabolites of Marine Origin
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Bioactivity of Marine Natural Products
Topical Collection in Molecules: Triterpenes and Triterpenoids
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Biotransformations Utilizing Marine/Marine-Derived Bacteria and Fungi
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Terpenoids from Marine Organisms
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Terpenoids from Marine Organisms II
Special Issue in Materials: New Insights into Hybrid Biomaterials
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Nanofibers and Nanoparticles from Marine Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery and Other Biomedical Applications
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Biopolymers and Their Applications in Drug Delivery

2. Department of Human Sciences and Quality of Life Promotion, San Raffaele University, Via di ValCannuta, 247, I-00166 Rome, Italy
Interests: applied biology; nicotinic receptor in cancer; COPD; addiction; Alzheimer's disease; systems medicine
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Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Compounds in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Drugs and Anti-Diabetic Type 2
Special Issue in Molecules: Modernist Women in Phytochemistry and Natural Products Chemistry

Interests: medicinal plants; extractions and chemical characterization; bioactivities; plants secondary metabolites
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Interests: polyphenols; flavonoids; health implications; bioavailability, metabolism and biological activity; reactions in food; sensory properties; C. elegans
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Special Issue in Molecules: Flavonoids: From Structure to Health Issues II
Special Issue in Molecules: Polyphenols and Human Being: From Epidemiology to Molecular Targets
Special Issue in Plants: Research of Bioactive Substances in Plant Extracts II
Interests: antioxidants; coenzyme Q; mitochondrial metabolism; bioenergetics; yeasts
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Interests: phytochemistry; phytomedicine; phytotherapy; natuaral products synthesis; structure elucidation; NMR, HPLC, chromatography; bioassay
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Interests: phenolic compounds; antioxidants; marine drugs; food safety; bioaccessibility; functional foods
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Special Issue in Molecules: Secondary Metabolites in Plant Foods
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Host-Guest Complexes
Special Issue in Molecules: Food Traceability and Authenticity within Analytical Chemistry
Special Issue in Molecules: Green Chemistry for Algae Bioactives in Aquaculture Feeds
Special Issue in Molecules: Modern Analytical Techniques in Metabolomics Analysis
Special Issue in Methods and Protocols: Current Analytical Methods for Applications on Food Bioactive Ingredients
Special Issue in Antibiotics: Challenges in Antibiotics Analysis
Special Issue in Resources: Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: The Need for a Circular Economy Model in Food Industry
Special Issue in Molecules: 25th Anniversary of Molecules—Recent Advances in Natural Products-2020
Special Issue in Antibiotics: Research and Development of Antibiotics
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Advances in Food, Bioproducts and Natural Byproducts for a Sustainable Future: From Conventional to Innovative Processes
Special Issue in Antibiotics: 10th Anniversary of Antibiotics—New Resources and Strategies in the Search for Antimicrobials
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Knowledge-Based Biotechnology for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Bioactives in Functional Food and Medicine: Selected Papers from 5th International Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food (5-ISPMF)

2. Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: medicinal chemistry; natural products; photochemistry reactivity; aporphine and oxoaporphine; oxoisoaporphine; coumarins
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Special Issue in Molecules: Aporphines and Their Oxidized Derivatives: Synthesis and Pharmacological Behavior
Special Issue in Molecules: Supramolecular Devices from Cyclodextrin: Synthesis and Pharmacological Applications
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Products for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Special Issue in Pharmaceutics: Nanosystems as Drug Delivery Carrier: From Nature to the Medication
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Products for COVID-19: Prevention and Treatment
Topics: Safety and Toxicological Risks of Medicinal Plants and Natural Products: Mechanistic Insights

2. Institute of Chemistry and Metabolism of Drugs (IQUIMEFA), University of Buenos Aires – National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Interests: natural products; sesquiterpene lactones; diterpenes; flavonoids; Asteraceae; antiparasitic activity; antitumor activity; semi-synthetic derivatives
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Special Issue in Molecules: Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases
Special Issue in Molecules: 50th Anniversary Issue of Artemisinin: The Successful Use of Natural Products against Parasitic Agents
Interests: aging; hypertension; animal models; neuroscience
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Special Issue in Molecules: Obesity and Neurodegeneration
Special Issue in Antioxidants: Antioxidant Therapy for Management of Oxidative Stress Induced Hypertension

Interests: nutraceuticals; bioactivity of natural products; betalain pigments; biochemistry
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Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Antioxidants and Cell Redox Sensitive Signaling: In Memory of Professor Lester Packer (1929–2018)
Special Issue in Molecules: Cytotoxic Activity of Plant Extracts-2nd Edition
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Molecular Research on Eryptosis
Special Issue in Antioxidants: Phytochemicals as Modulators of Oxidative Stress-Dependent, Inflammatory Conditions
Special Issue in Molecules: Natural Products: Biological and Pharmacological Activity
Special Issue in Nutraceuticals: Feature Papers in Nutraceuticals from Editorial Board Members

Interests: polyphenols; anthocyanins; functional foods; nutrigenomics; water stress
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Interests: natural products chemistry(NP): untargeted and targeted, microbial metabolomics with mass spectrometry; molecular networks; microbial NP induction and production; NP extraction, purification and structure elucidation; structure-activity-relationships in NP, NP drug, discovery, NP libraries generation and maintenance; chemometrics on NP; libraries; in-vitro and in-vivo high throughput screening; antibacterial, antifungal and anticancer NP; multi-drug-resistances; bioinformatics
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Special Issue in Molecules: Microbial Natural Products in Drug Discovery Chemistry

Interests: natural products chemistry, bioactivity, and applications; olive tree products and byproducts; olive oil chemistry; analysis and quality; phytochemical analysis; nutrients and bioactive compounds; bioaccessibility and bioavailability; antioxidants as food preservatives; structure–antioxidant activity relationships
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Interests: cellular physiology, proteomics; cell plasticity; epithelial to mesenchymal transition, signal transduction
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Interests: secondary metabolites from plants; isolation and structure elucidation; green isolation techniques; saponins; phloroglucinols; polyphenols; synthesis and semi-synthesis of natural compounds of pharmaceutical relevance; medicinal chemistry; antimicrobial; antiprotozoal and non-cytotoxic chemopreventive naturally derived compounds; biopolymers for biomedical applications; valorization of agro-industrial waste biomasses for bioactive natural products; supercritical CO2 extraction
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Special Issue in Molecules: Chemical Applications of Supercritical Fluids
Interests: natural products chemistry; medicinal chemistry; green chemistry; analytical chemistry; chemical biology; macromolecular chemistry

Interests: liquid chromatography; phytochemistry; drug analysis
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Special Issue in Molecules: Chromatographic Science of Natural Products II
Special Issue in Molecules: Chromatographic Science of Natural Products III

Interests: plant metabolomics, compound isolation and characterisation by NMR and mass spectrometry
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Interests: molecular enzymology; structural biology and genetic engineering of polyketide synthases (PKS) and hybrid PKS-nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS)
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Special Issue in Molecules: Polyketides-II
Special Issue in Molecules: Modernist Women in Phytochemistry and Natural Products Chemistry
Interests: metalloenzymes; inhibitors; organic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; anticancerous compounds; antiinfectiuos compounds
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Interests: new ginseng resource development; ginseng based nanoparticles; Invitro screening of ginseng materials; Cultured Roots of Mountain Ginseng (CRMG); novel ginseng compounds synthesis and bioconversion; hybrid and cultivar development; ginseng abiotic and biotic stress resistance
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Special Issue in Molecules: The Functional Applications of Medicinal Plants

Interests: natural products chemistry; plants; isolation; structure elucidation; NMR spectroscopy; steroids; terpenoids; cancer; biological activity

Interests: marine actinobacteria; marine natural products; antimicrobial activity; antitumor activity; marine drug development; biosynthesis of marine polycyclic compounds; genome mining of marine actinomycetes
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Interests: specialized natural products; bioactives; chemophenetics; chemical ecology; botany

Interests: phytochemistry; pharmacognosy; bioactivity; anti-inflammatory effect; animicrobial effect
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Special Issue in Molecules: Bioactive Molecules and Their Mechanisms of Action
Special Issue in Molecules: Bioactive Natural Compounds and Their Mechanisms of Action