Assoc. Prof. Rachel Oliveira Castilho is a pharmacist who graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1995). She completed a master's degree (1997) and a doctorate (2001) in Natural Products Chemistry from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and a postdoctoral degree at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg-Germany (2014). Since 2006, she has been a professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in the Department of Pharmaceutical Products, where she is the leader of the Laboratory of Pharmacognosy and Homeopathy (GnosiaH) and a permanent member of the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences. She has projects from CNPq, CAPES, FAPEMIG, Trinity College School of Pharmacy, University of Dublin and the Municipalities of Itajubá and Betim. She is one of the leaders of the Center for Research and Development Studies in Pharmaceutical Sciences (NEPDCFAR / UFMG) and is the coordinator of the CuraÓrtese Network project. It operates in the following areas: Bioprospection and phytochemistry of Brazilian plant species with biological activity (chemistry of natural products); the standardization of extracts and development of methods of analysis in medicinal plants and derivatives; the development of pharmaceutical preparations with medicinal plants; and micromolecular chemosystematics. She holds a research productivity scholarship 2.