Maria-José U. Ferreira is Full Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon. With a degree and a PhD in Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), she coordinates the Master's course in Medicinal and Biopharmaceutical Chemistry and leads the Natural Products Chemistry group. She directed the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and is currently President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe. Her main research interest is the isolation and molecular derivatization of new bioactive chemical scaffolds from plants. She is focused on discovering anticancer compounds, emphasizing targeting multidrug-resistant cancer cells.