Science of Drug and Bioactive Substances: Chemical investigation of natural products from medicinal, aromatic, and food plants

  • What it is

    Mobility experience with a research focus

  • Who it’s for

    PhD sandwich

Department

Department of Pharmacy

Main research activities/topics/projects

The project aims at studying the chemical composition of plants with medicinal and/or food interest, starting from the optimization of extraction procedure for the recovery of bioactive substances through green and innovative methods. A metabolomic approach will be used for the chemical characterization of plant extracts by liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HR-MS), as well as chemical fingerprint and quantitative analysis. Compounds will be isolated by fractionation of extracts through different chromatographic techniques and their structural elucidation carried out through spectroscopic analyses based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and MS techniques.

Special entry requirements

Basic experience in a chemistry laboratory and informatic skills

Duration in months (min-max)

 PhD sandwich:  3-3

Contacts

Main scientific contact person

Alessandra Braca

+390502219688

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Other scientific contact person

Marinella De Leo

+390502219706

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