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Attività di ricerca

Federica Pollastro received her PhD, sponsored by Indena S.p.a. (Milano – Italy), in Science of Bioactive Substances at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UPO). At present, she is Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UPO), where she is lecturer of the courses Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Plants and Biotechnology applied to medicinal plants. Her research interests include drug discovery in the field of natural compounds, with a focus on Cannabis sativa and bitter sesquiterpeic lactones from Umbelliferae family.

She is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Italian Phytochemistry Society and member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Plants and Fitoterapia. She co-founded a Spin-off company (PlantaChem) focused on the isolation of natural molecular probes.

Parole chiave

Cannabinoids, natural compounds, bitter compounds, phytochemistry 

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