Gilda Guimarães Leitão is a pharmacist with a PhD degree in Natural Products Chemistry. Full Professor at the Natural Products Research Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research interests include phytochemistry, countercurrent chromatography, plant biotechnology, and separation sciences. She has co-authored more than 90 research articles, book chapters and patents, alongside invited lectures. Her group is the holder of the first authorization to access traditional knowledge associated with bioprospecting purposes (2007), involving a contract between the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the quilombola communities of Oriximina, Brazil. She is involved with several international research groups in Italy, the UK, France, Germany, Mexico, etc.
Gilda Guimarães Leitão is a pharmacist with a PhD degree in Natural Products Chemistry. Full Professor at the Natural Products Research Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research interests include phytochemistry, countercurrent chromatography, plant biotechnology, and separation sciences. She has co-authored more than 90 research articles, book chapters and patents, alongside invited lectures. Her group is the holder of the first authorization to access traditional knowledge associated with bioprospecting purposes (2007), involving a contract between the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the quilombola communities of Oriximina, Brazil. She is involved with several international research groups in Italy, the UK, France, Germany, Mexico, etc.