Research Activities
Main Research Interests
- Chemistry and Technological Exploitation of Natural Products
- Sustainable exploitation of Biodiversity
- Discovery of active ingredients from natural products
- Pharmaceutical Technology (Drug Delivery Systems)
- Quality control of natural products
- Standardization of natural extracts
- Stability testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients
- Biological activities of natural products and their metabolites
- Synergistic actions of bioactive molecules of natural origin
- Technological Exploitation of bioactive constituents
- Industrial applications of Natural Products
- Design and development of high-added value products (pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, functional foods, medical devices etc)
- Isolation and Analysis of bioactive constituents from natural products (HPLC-DAD, LC-MS, preparative HPLC, HSCCC, GPC, Chiral Chromatography, SPE, ASE, SFE, SFC, GC-MS)
- Scale up from laboratory to manufacturing of pharmaceutical products with natural products
- Unit operations of natural products