Luisa Pistelli

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Prof. Luisa Pistelli, doctor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, a five years program at the Faculty of Pharmacy (University of Pisa), is Full Professor in Pharmaceutical Biology (SSD BIO/15) at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa. From 1995 to 2002 she was lecturer in Plant Biology and Medicinal Plant Biotechnology at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa. Since 2003 till 2014 she has been lecturer in Food of Plant Origin, Herbal Products and Medicinal Plant Biotechnology at the same University. From 2011 to now she is also teaching Plant Biology, Pharmaceutical Botany, and Medicinal Plant Biotechnology together with Medicinal Plants in Dietary Supplements.
She was President of the Herbal Technology Degree Course from 2001 to 2009, and the Coordinator of all Italian Herbal Technology degree courses (CO.N.P.T.ER.) from 2006-07 and 2008-09.
2008-2013 she has been Director of the Master Course in “Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: raw material for the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries” (one year course following a 3 year degree), http://www.farm.unipi.it/masterpam/), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Pisa.
Prof. Luisa Pistelli is a member of several important scientific national and international societies (SIF, SBI, PSE) and of the Accademia dei Georgofili (Florence, ITALY).
From 2019 to now she is President of the Italian Society of Phytochemistry and the Science of Medicinal, Food and Fragrant Plants (SIF, www.phytosif.it)
She has published more than 250 publications in international journals on Phytochemistry, Chemistry of Natural Compounds and Medicinal Plant Biotechnology. The complete list of her publications is shown on the UNIPI website http://www.unimap.unipi.it under the name of the author.

Research fields: extraction, isolation and structural elucidation of secondary metabolites from plants, with biological screening of their activity; quali-quantitative evaluation of secondary metabolites in plant extracts with agronomic and industrial interest and from tissue and cell cultures. Essential oil analysis.

(2017-2019) partner in the IT-FR Marittime program Mare di agrumi "Marchio turistico e biotecnologie verdi per lo sviluppo di imprese su una risorsa comune: gli agrumi"

(2013-2015) coordinator of the Bilateral project Italy-Egypt “Antifungal activity of Mediterranean essential oils and their formulations in addition to conventional therapy to reduce drugs overuse and their adverse side effect”

(2011-2013) European Coordinator of the European Project EMAP “Edible, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants” (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES) N.247548,

(2010-2013)scientific expert in EU FP7-REGPOT-2009-1 (ProFiCienCy N. 2457519 “Managing the Production of Food and Feedstuff, their Safety and Quality under Global Climatic Change”

(2007-2013) partner in IT-FR Marittime program (PYRGI) “Strategia d’impresa in settori di nicchia per l’economia agroindustriale del mediterraneo “

(2007-2012) partecipant in INTERREG ALCOTRA (AROMA) N. 68 “Le piante aromatiche tra ambiente e attività produttive”.

(2008 – 2010) Italian Coordinator in the XVII Executive Programme of Scientific and Technological Co-Operation Between the Republic of Hungary and the Republic of Italy for the project titled “Adaptability of medicinal and aromatic plants to climatic changes: effects of abiotic stress on their cultivation and chemical composition”.

(2006-2009) scientific coordinator of the University of Pisa research unit in the EU-funded project NUTRA-SNACKS – VI Framework Programme, Proposal Number 023044. "Ready to eat food for breakfast and sport activity with high content of nutraceutics reducing a disease risk and promoting public health"

(ASI 2006-2009) partner of MoMa-FAI project in the framework of the Italian Space Agency “From Molecules To Man: Biotechnological Applications of Space Research-Space Research Applied to the improvement of the