Em.o.Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Dr. hc. Günther K. Bonn
Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of the Austrian Drug Screening Institute (ADSI), University of Innsbruck, Austria
Date of Birth January 15, 1954
Place of Birth Innsbruck, Austria
Nationality Austrian
1972 – 1976 Study of Chemistry at the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck and Graduation with „Mag. rer. nat.“
1976 – 1978 Thesis at the Institute of Radiochemistry, University of Innsbruck “Hydrothermal Degradation
of Glucose, Cellobiose and Cellulose“
1979 Graduation to “Doktor der Philosophie” summa cum laude
1983 University Assistant at the Institute for Radiochemistry, University of Innsbruck
1985 Habilitation for Analytical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck
1988 Visiting Professor at Yale University, Department of Chemical Engineering, New Haven, CT, USA,
Prof. Csaba Horvath
1991-1994 Full Professor for Analytical Chemistry at Johannes-Kepler-University of Linz, Austria and Head at the
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Johannes-Kepler-University of Linz
1994 Full Professor for Analytical Chemistry – Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry,
Leopold-Franzens- University of Innsbruck
1995 – 2022 Head of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry
1993 – 1999 Member of the “Fachhochschulrat”, Vienna
1996 – 2003 Member of the FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Vienna
2000 – 2010 Vice President – Austrian Council for Science and Research Development, Vienna
2003 President of BIT – Office for International Scientific and Technology Cooperation, Vienna and Brussels
2003 – 2013 Member of the Board of the Medical University, Innsbruck
2008 – 2013 Vice Chairman of the Board of the Medical University, Innsbruck
2006 – 2011 Head of the Sino-Austrian Biomarker Center (Peking University)
since 2013- Founder and Scientific Director of the Austrian Drug Screening Institute (ADSI) in Innsbruck
2019 – Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of the Austrian Drug Screening Institute GmbH (ADSI)
since 2020 – Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Michael A. Popp Nature Science Foundation
2021 – Honorary Consul for Georgia in Tyrol, Austria
2022 – Emeritus Analytical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck
Awards
2003 Halász Award
2009 Honorary Ring of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
2010 EUSSS Nernst-Tswett Award
2011 Csaba Horváth Memorial Award
2011 Badge of Honor of the Province of Tyrol
2012 UPV – Science Award, University of Innsbruck
2013 A.J.P. Martin – Medal
Publications > 400
Patents > 30
Books 2
Co-Founder of several companies
Membership in Editorial Boards
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.
Scopus profile: www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8667167400
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pwof_7YAAAAJ&hl=en
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.
Dr. Jianbo Xiao is current a full professor of Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Faculty
of Science, University of Vigo (Spain) and the distingished professor of Zhejiang A & F University, (China).
He received PhD degree in nutrition from Okayama Prefectural University (Japan) in 2009. He worked as a Postdoc supported by AvH foundation at University of Würzbug, Germany (April 2013-May 2015) and then worked as an assistant professor in University of Macau (October 2015-December 2020). He has accepted
and published more than 500 peer reviewed papers including Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Nature Communication, Advanced Science, Journal of Advanced Research, Pharmacological Research, Food Chemistry, and so on (Google citation: 55000, H-index 117). Dr. Xiao is the founding editor of Food Frontiers
(IF 8.6), eFood (IF 5.7), Food Safety and Health (Wiley), and Future Postharvest and Food (Wiley), the former Editor-in-Chief of Human Nutrition & Metabolism (IF 1.8), the associate editor of Journal of Advanced Research (IF 13.0), Phytochemistry Reviews (IF 7.6), Phytomedicine (IF 8.3), Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods (IF 5.3), Discover Food (IF 3.7), Current Protocols (IF 2.2), Journal of Berry Research (IF 1.5), and Phytomedicine Plus (Elsevier), the editorial board member of Trends in Food Science & Technology (IF 15.4), Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition (IF 12.0), Food Chemistry (IF 9.8), Food Chemistry-X (IF 8.2), Current Research in Food Science (IF 7.0), Current Neuropharmacology (IF 5.3), Current Research in Biotechnology (IF 4.0), Industrial Crops and Products (IF 6.2), Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry (IF 4.9),
Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences (IF 4.7), and so on.
Prof. Jianbo Xiao
University of Vigo, Spain
E-mail: jianboxiao@uvigo.es; jianboxiao@yahoo.com
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.
https://npmc.pharm.uoa.gr/
Nikolas Fokialakis, PhD is Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy at the Division of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He obtained his PhD in Pharmacognosy from the University of Athens, focusing on medicinal plants and the synthesis of bioactive natural product derivatives.
Following postdoctoral research at USDA-ARS (Oxford, MS, USA) and
subsequently at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC, Chicago, IL, USA)
under an OECD scholarship (2004–2006), he joined the Faculty of Pharmacy at the
University of Athens in 2006. His research has evolved from medicinal plant
studies to a broader focus on natural products derived from terrestrial and
marine microorganisms. Between 2009 and 2012, he was a visiting scientist in
both academia and industry, including CNRS (France), Fondation MEDINA (Spain),
and Frutarom (Switzerland).
In 2012, he established his independent research group, focusing
on the discovery and characterization of bioactive small molecules from plants,
mushrooms, and microorganisms using advanced analytical techniques and
computational tools. He has coordinated and participated in numerous EU and
national research projects and has authored more than 100 publications in
peer-reviewed journals (H-index: 32). From 2019 to 2022, he also served as a
visiting scientist in the United States, monitoring developments in medicinal
psychoactive plants and mushrooms and their evolving regulatory frameworks. He
is currently coordinating a €1.8M EU-funded project, NEUROHEALTH,
focused on exploiting the therapeutic potential of psychoactive alkaloids.
He has served as an expert evaluator for research funding agencies
and grant committees in the EU, France, Belgium, Sweden, Poland, and Greece. He
has delivered more than a dozen invited lectures at international conferences
and has contributed as a member of the scientific committee of numerous
international conferences.
April 29th, 2026
Deadline for Abstract submission (Notification of Abstract acceptance)
April 29th, 2026
Early registration payment
Language
The official language of the symposium is English