Editor-in-chief
Prof. Parsons Xuejun Huang
Department of Regenerative Medicine, USA
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Technology of Drug
Sapienza University of Rome
Italy
Tel: +3906-49912781
Prof. Bruno Botta is a Professor of Department of Chemistry and Technology of Drug at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and he has been nominated Deputy Vice chancellor for the Internationalization in November 2014. Prof. Botta's is Head of the Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies at Sapienza University of Rome since 2011. Since March, 16, 2015 he is Chair of the Cost Action CM-1407 "Challenging organic syntheses inspired by nature - from natural products chemistry to drug discovery". Prof. Bruno Botta's research interest focused on the structural elucidation and synthesis of biologically active compounds derived from living plants. Since 20 years, he has been working on the field of plant tissue cultures in combination with chemistry directed toward the understanding of biosynthetic pathways of the compounds under investigation. During the last 7 years he focused his attention on the Hedgehog (Hh) signalling pathway which plays a pivotal role in the initiation, proliferation, invasion and metastasis of various cancers.
