Rumo à Farmacopeia Panamericana de Plantas Nativas | Towards a Pan-American Pharmacopoeia of Native Plants | Hacia una farmacopea panamericana de plantas autóctonas (UTC -3)

Maria Monagas

Maria Monagas is Principal Scientist of the Department of Dietary Supplements and Herbal Medicines of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP). She has a doctorate in the area of ??Food Science and Technology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and a Master in Science in Industrial Technology from Heriott-Watt University (Scotland, United Kingdom). Before joining USP, she was a Research Scientist at the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain. At USP, Dr. Monagas is responsible for the development and review of monographs and general chapters related to ingredients of botanical origin to be admitted in the Dietary Supplements section of the USP-NF publication and the Dietary Supplements Compendium (DSC). She also serves as a liaison between industry and USP Expert Committee members, and helps plan and organize USP Expert Committee work assignments. She is also responsible for the new Expert Panel on Botanical Dietary Supplements and Herbal Medicines for the Pan-American region. Dr. Monagas has more than 20 years of experience in the analysis and characterization of ingredients of botanical origin used in the production of dietary supplements; particularly in derivatives of plants rich in polyphenols. She has contributed to more than 70 scientific publications, including original articles, book chapters, and industrial patents.

Ricardo Ghelman

Salvador Cañiguera

Obtained his PhD in Pharmacy in the University of Barcelona with special distinction, currently a Professor of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Barcelona. His research deals with the chemistry and biological activity of medicinal plants, specially from Spain and Latin-America. He has investigated on the composition and infraspecific variability of the essential oils, mainly from Lamiaceae (Thymus sp., Salvia sp., Sideritis sp., etc.) and Piperaceae (particularly Latin-American Piper sp.). He has also investigated in the fields of flavonoids, polysaccharides and other chemical groups. Concerning bioactivity, he has developed studies on anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antioxidant and immunomodulatory activity of several medicinal plants, especially from Latin-America. Finally, part of his research deal with the development of methods for quality control of herbal preparations for medicines, dietary supplements, feed and cosmetics. He is member of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Catalonia, and founder member and President of the Spanish Society of Phytotherapy (Sociedad Española de Fitoterapia, SEFIT). He has been member of the Board of the International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ICMAP) (1999-2019), the Board of the European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP) (2003-2016), the Board of Directors de la Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA) (2004-2005), and the chairman of the 50th Annual Congress of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research (Barcelona, 2002). He has been the chairman (1997-2002) of the Phytotherapy group of the Spanish National Formulary and he is the chairman (1999-) of the Phytochemistry group of the Spanish Pharmacopoeia. He is the current president (2020-) of the group 13B of the European Pharmacopoeia.He is also de first vice-chair of the Commission of the European Pharmacopoeia (2019-2022). Additionally, he is member of the essential oil committee of the Spanish Agency of Standardisation (AENOR) and the external expert panel of EMA (European Medicines Agency).