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Marine Natural Products
Academic Unit: Faculty of Pharmaceutical and Food Sciences
OECD
Discipline
Natural sciences
Subdiscipline
Chemical sciences
Strategic Focus
Our group consists of professionals in chemistry, pharmaceutics, biology, and other closely related disciplines. It aims to develop research projects on the chemistry, biology, and biological activity of Colombian marine natural resources by establishing agreements and networks with other institutions and research groups.
We aim to constitute, along with other Colombian research groups, a research network on marine natural products.
We seek to participate in academic, scientific, and community outreach events.
Research Areas and Topics
- Marine antiparasitics.
- Development of analytical methodologies.
- Organic hemisynthesis.
- Functional natural products.
- Marine antimicrobial natural products.
- Chemistry and biological activity of marine natural products.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Group Coordinator
Diana Margarita Márquez Fernández, Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences.
Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia.
Scientific Cooperation
Collaborative Relationships
- Metropolitan Technological Institute.
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin and Bogota campuses.
- Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogota.
- University of Catania (Italy).
- Federal University of Río de Janeiro (Brazil).
Notable Projects
- BALCAR-Q: Bioprospection and Chemistry of Caribbean Algae.
- Studies on therapeutic coffee-derived polyphenol banks in colorectal cancer in vitro models.
- Synthesis of cytarabine conjugates with fatty acids and potentially antitumoral triterpenes, and their interaction with lipid membranes.
- Determination of the inhibitory capacity of six epidioxysterol synthetic compounds (analogue to cholesterol) over the replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in macrophages and in vitro dendritic cells.
Main Research Results
- New Conjugated Compound T5 Epidioxy-Sterol-ANB Inhibits the Growth of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Affecting the Cholesterol and Folate Pathways. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.537935
- Anomalous interaction of tri-acyl ester derivatives of uridine nucleoside with a l-α-dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine biomembrane model: a differential scanning calorimetry study. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jphp.13038
- Anti-Parasite Activity of Novel 3,5-Diiodophenethyl-benzamides. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21577/0103-5053.20180160
- DSC studies on the interaction of lipophilic cytarabine prodrugs with DMPC multilamellar vesicles. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-019-08780-x
- Synthesis and interaction of sterol-uridine conjugate with DMPC liposomes studied by differential scanning calorimetry. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.03.023
Research Portafolio
- Phytochemical marches: detection of secondary metabolites using qualitative tests.
- Analysis of HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) samples.
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AccionesUniversidad de Antioquia | Vigilada Mineducación | Acreditación institucional hasta el 2033 | NIT 890980040-8
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Recepción de correspondencia: calle 70 No. 52 - 21 | Apartado Aéreo 1226 | Dirección: calle 67 No. 53 - 108 | Horario de atención
Conmutador: [57 + 604] 219 8332 | Línea gratuita de atención al ciudadano: 018000 416384 | Fax: [57 + 604] 263 8282
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Medellín - Colombia | Todos los Derechos Reservados © 2020