Prof. Patricia Valentao

Dr. Patrícia Valentão is an Associate Professor with habilitation at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Porto (FFUP). She is an Integrated Member of Associated Laboratory REQUIMTE within the Natural Products: Chemistry and Bioactivity group. Her research has been focused on the development and application of analytical methods for the study of natural matrices (terrestrial and non-terrestrial ones) and on the chemical and biological characterization of natural and hemi-synthetic bioactive compounds in the context of drug discovery in the fields of diabetes, inflammatory, neurodegenerative, and cancer diseases. She has been acting as an Evaluator of Research Projects for various international and national entities. She is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals (Marine Drugs; Food Research International; Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Journal of Chemistry) and a Guest Editor for several Special Issues (Alkaloids from Molecules, 2008; Alkaloids: Novel Therapeutic Perspectives from Molecules, 2011; Phenolics and polyphenolics from International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2015; Natural anti-inflammatory agents from International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2018 and 2020; Biological Potential of Marine and Terrestrial Species from Molecules, 2018; Advances in Marine Alkaloids from Marine Drugs, 2019; Natural Products and Sustainable Bioresource Recovery from Sustainability, 2021).