Antigoni Cheilari

RESEARCH INTERESTS • Search for new drug-lead compounds of plant origin. • Recording and assessing information on folk medicine, and discovery of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants of Ethnopharmacological sources. • Conducting ethnobotanical studies in the Southeastern Mediterranean (especially the region of Mount Parnonas, Greece. • Development and application of (q)NMR methodologies for the Quality Control of Medicinal Plants. • Application of chemometrics approaches (NMR-Heterocovariance algorithms) for the discovery of novel bioactive molecules. • NMR and LC-MS-based metabolic profiling approaches for the study of medicinal plants (plant metabolomics). • Dereplication techniques for the rapid characterisation of plant extracts. • Isolation and structure elucidation of secondary metabolites from natural sources. Applications of FCPC, SFC, HPTLC, uHPLC-HRMS/MS, and NMR in Natural Products Chemistry. • Exploitation of bioactive natural products as pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and nutraceuticals.