Lina Barragán Mendoza holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the University of Colima (2023), with a strong background in natural products chemistry and professional experience in chemical analysis within the pharmaceutical industry. She has specialized expertise in the isolation of secondary metabolites, particularly through chromatography techniques, which she uses to separate and purify bioactive compounds from complex natural matrices. She also has experience in the structural characterization of these compounds using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the evaluation of cytotoxic activity in cancer cell lines, and in silico techniques such as molecular docking.