Maria José Umbelino Ferreira
Full Professor
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Maria José Umbelino Ferreira is Full Professor. With a degree and a PhD in Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), she coordinates the Master course in Medicinal and Biopharmaceutical Chemistry and leads the Natural Products Chemistry group. She directed the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and is currently President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe. Her main research interest is the isolation and molecular derivatization of new bioactive chemical scaffolds from plants. She is focused on discovering anticancer compounds, with emphasis on targeting multidrug-resistant cancer cells. She authored more than 130 papers/book chapters (Scopus: h-index 37). She supervised many students. She is member of the editorial board of several international journals.
ORCID ID 0000-0002-8742-1486 | SCOPUS ID 7402787141 | CIÊNCIA ID CE1A-3108-AC3C