Dr. Veronique Seidel is a Senior Lecturer at the Natural Products Research Laboratory, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She received her Ph.D. in 1999 from the University Of Strathclyde. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Francophone Apitherapy Association and of the European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers. She is a Scientific Advisor for the Natural Products and the Food Science & Nutrition programs of the International Foundation for Science. She is a recipient of the Life Sciences Prize and the Parke-Davis Natural Products Chemistry Prize from the French Academy of Pharmacy. Dr. Seidel's research interests include Purification and structure elucidation of bioactive natural products, Ethnopharmacological investigation of natural remedies, Screening of natural products for antimicrobial/anti-inflammatory activity, and In silico studies of natural products.