ICNPU 2023 – 5th International Conference on Natural Products Utilization

INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof. Dr. Vassya BANKOVA

Extraction of bioactive natural products with Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents: can we avoid solvent removal?
Corresponding member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry (Bulgaria)

Prof. Dr. Maurizio BATTINO

The healthy effects of common dietary polyphenols: an insight of the molecular mechanisms involved
Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy)

Prof. Dr. Albena DINKOVA-KOSTOVA

The anti-inflammatory activity of pharmacological activators of transcription factor Nrf2
University of Dundee (UK)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (USA)

Prof. Dr. Jutta LUDWIG-MÜLLER

Bioactive cyclic pentapeptides from the plant endophyte Cyanodermella asteris: elucidating their biosynthesis forproduction
Editor-in-Chief Journal of Plant Growth Regulation
Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)

Prof. Dr. Ilkay Erdogan ORHAN

Preclinical Approach to Anti-Alzheimer Potential of Selected Plant Phenolics Through Various Experimental Models
Associate Editor Phytomedicine
Editor-in-Chief Turkish Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Gazi University (Türkiye)

Dr. Gian Luigi RUSSO

Phytochemicals in cancer: insights towards their common mechanisms of action
Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2021

National Research Council – Institute of Food Sciences (Italy)

Prof. Dr. Eleni SKALTSA

Natural products in skin ailments
Editor-in-Chief Phytochemistry
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Health Sciences (Greece)

Prof. Dr. Hermann STUPPNER

Plant-derived secondary metabolites with potential anti-inflammatory activity
President of the Herbal Medicinal Products Platform Austria (HMPPA)
Innsbruck (Austria)

Prof. Dr. Zora Dajić STEVANOVIĆ

Climate change prediction model for plant bioactive compounds:
Hops (Humulus lupulus L.) as a model plant far beyond a brewing use
President of the Association for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Southeast European Countries
University of Belgrade (Serbia)

Prof. Dr. Robert VERPOORTE

Endophytes and secondary metabolism
Editor-in-Chief of Phytochemistry Reviews
Executive Editor Biotechnology Letters
Leiden University (The Netherlands)

Prof. Dr. Chin-Kun WANG

The improvement on gut and brain by using EGCG and EGCG-fish oil ester
Chung Shan Medical University (ROC Taiwan)

Prof. Dr. Jean-Luc WOLFENDER

Combining massive metabolomics and bioactivity screening data into knowledge graph frameworks to facilitate innovative discoveries in natural product research
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland,
University of Geneva (Switzerland)