Prof. Dr. Milen I. Georgiev is heading a Lab of Metabolomics @ Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has 20 years of experience in natural products field and has published in excess of 200 papers (i.a., Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Molecular Plant, Genome Biology, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, and Plant Biotechnology Journal, among others). He has delivered 80+ invited lectures in 30 different countries.
His current research focuses on 1) biosynthesis of fine molecules and development of biotech tools for their sustainable mass production, 2) metabolomics and comprehensive metabolite profiling and 3) molecular pharmacology with particular focus on longevity, obesity and photoaging of skin.
Milen is a recipient of Pythagoras award for outstanding scientist by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science (2011, 2015, 2020 and 2024), being the only scientist in Bulgaria to have won four times. Since 2020 he is listed among top 2% in worldwide citation ranking of all scientists and scientific disciplines for six consecutive years.
Milen serves as an Editor, Associate Editor and Editorial Board member of dozen journals in biotechnology and natural products fields, incl. Phytomedicine, Phytochemistry, Phytochemistry Reviews, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, Biotechnology Letters, Chinese Medicine, Food Frontiers, Frontiers in Pharmacology, among others. Serving as a chairman he has established the International Conference on Natural Products Utilization: from Plants to Pharmacy Shelf (ICNPU; www.icnpu2025.com), which had six issues so far.
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Judith Maria Rollinger is Professor of Pharmacognosy/Pharmaceutical Biology and Head of “Phytochemistry & Biodiscovery” at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she pioneers data-driven strategies for nature-based drug discovery. Trained as a pharmaceutical scientist, her societal and scientific vision bridges natural product research with computational science to unlock the therapeutic potential of nature for pressing global health challenges.
Her research program integrates cheminformatics, biochemometry, and experimental phytochemistry to discover novel natural lead structures targeting antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases, metabolic syndrome, and inflammation. Beside several national and international collaborative projects, she currently coordinates the €2.5 million FWF-funded DocFunds program Anti-Infectives Drug Discovery – AIDD focusing on next-generation anti-infectives.
12th International Symposium on Chromatography of Natural Products (ISCNP 2026)
Lublin, Poland on May 10th-13th, 2026.
Abstract:
Chromatography: Breaking complexity for natural product drug discovery
One of the most challenging tasks in natural product research is the identification of bioactive constituents from multicomponent mixtures. Sophisticated chromatographic methods for the analysis as well as for fractionation and separation of extracts are a precondition for the successful use of biochemometric approaches. MS- and NMR-based spectral correlation with bioactivities opens up new revenues for a fast and unambiguous identification of major and even minor bioactive constituents from complex mixtures. In my talk I will present some recent examples from ongoing research focusing on the discovery of resistance breaking anti-infectives and anti-inflammatory natural compounds.
Prof. Dr. Ilkay Erdogan Orhan holds a pharmacist degree (1993) from Gazi University (Ankara, Türkiye), 1st M.Sc. degree from the Department of Pharmacognosy at the same Faculty (1996) with a young scientist scholarship provided by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TUBITAK). Then, she was awarded her second M.Sc. degree in Marine Natural Product Chemistry in 1998 at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan, supported by a Monbusho scholarship. She earned the Ph.D. degree in Pharmacognosy at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University (Ankara, Türkiye) in 2002. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Winnipeg (Canada) in 2003 under the NATO-TUBITAK fellowship program. She was promoted to Assoc. Prof. position by the Higher Education Council (Türkiye) in 2004 and to full professor in 2009.
Dr. Orhan was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus (2011-2014) and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Gazi University in Ankara, Türkiye (2016-2024). Currently, Dr. Orhan is Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Lokman Hekim University in Ankara, Türkiye since 2024.
Dr. Orhan is European Managing Group Member of International Science Council (ISC), the principal member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) and the Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS), and the vice president of the International Scientific Evaluation Board of the Austrian Drug Screening Institute (ADSI). She served as the Representative of Southeast Europe & Turkey Region for the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE) for 2019-2023. She is presently the Associate Editor of Phytomedicine and Phytochemistry Reviews.
Dr. Orhan received several awards such as Young Woman Scientist Award in Asia continent by OWSD (Organization of Women in Science in Developing Countries) & Elsevier, Science Award in Biology by COMSTECH (OIC Standing Committee on Science and Technological Cooperation) in 2010, Young Woman Scientist Award (in Life Sciences) by L’Oreal & Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2011, and Honor Award by Gazi University in 2011, Innovation Award for Women in Turkey in 2015, Science Award by Turkish Association of Pharmacists in 2016, Golden Mortar Science Award in Pharmacy in 2017, Silver Medal for Patent in International Invention Fair by Turkish Ministry of Science and Technology in 2017 as well as Best Academic Invention Medal by International Federation of Invention Associations (IFIA) in 2018. She also received the TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences) Science Award in Chemistry (2024), Science Award by Istanbul Technical University (2024), Certificate of Outstanding Service and Achievement from the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen’s Foundation (TÜSİAV) (2024) and Climate Ambassador Award (2024) by the Turkish Vegan and Healthy Life Tourism Association (TEVSAD) & Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen Foundation (TÜSİAV) & Ministry of Environment and Urbanization.
Dr. Orhan is currently the author of 326 scientific papers listed by SCI-E, 46 articles in other scientific journals, 28 book chapters, 4 patents (Turkish, US, & EP), 6 patent applications, and 3 books. Her h index is 62 (Web of Science) and 66 (SCOPUS) with 21300 citations. Her research interests are pharmacognosy, phytotherapy, phytochemistry and bioactivities of natural products, natural cosmetics, sports pharmacy, and aromatherapy.
Full professor in Pharmacognosy of the Faculty of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He obtained his Ph.D on 1987 at Descartes University, Paris V where he spent six year as academic staff. He was visiting professor in Orleans and Innsbruck Universities as well as in Chinese Academy of Science. At present he leads a research group of more than 20 researchers, focusing on natural product-based lead discovery, for various applications as therapeutics, functional foods, cosmetics and agrochemicals. Parallel research activities have been deployed concerning the solution in environmental problems derived from agricultural wastes. To date he has published 450 papers and 20 patents with more than 30.000 citations and h-index 75.
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April 24th, 2026
Deadline for Abstract submission (Notification of Abstract acceptance)
April 24th, 2026
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Language
The official language of the symposium is English