Hermann Stuppner
Head of Natural Product Discovery, Partner
Management
Inte:Ligand
Austria
Biography
Dr. Hermann Stuppner is head of the Institute of Pharmacy at the Leopold-Franzens Universty of Innsbruck, Austria. After his pharmacy M.S. degree (Innsbruck) he obtained a Ph.D. in pharmacognosy (1985, University of Munich, Germany). He then spent a year as a post-doc fellow at the University of California (Irvine, USA). In 1987 he moved to Innsbruck where he grew up his phytochemistry group. In 1993 he was nominated as Dozent and 1997 as professor for pharmacognosy. Since 2000 he is head of the Institute of Pharmacy. His main interests are focused in the area of isolation and structure elucidation of natural products with anti-inflammatoric, anti-asthmatic, and anti-neoplastic activity. Moreover, he is interested in establishing structure-activity relationships of natural products as well as in phytochemical analytics using HPCL, GC/MS and CZE techniques.
Research Interest
Pharmacognosy
