Geraonikaki Athina.

Biography

Natural Products of Uzbek Academy of Science. In 1977 she defended her PhD thesis and received the Ph.D grade in Chemistry (Ph.D, Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry). In 1984 she graduated from the School of Pharmacy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From 2006-2013 she served as Head of the Department of Pharm.Chemistry. Since 2010 she has been Full Professor on Medicinal Chemistry for School of Pharmacy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During 2009-2011 she was Vice President of School of Pharmacy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.In July 2013 Prof.Geronikaki was elected as a Full member of the Mediterranean Academy of Science and Arts.Her scientific interest is Chemistry of natural products isolation, determination of the structure; Chemistry of biologically active compounds and evaluation of their activity, using different computational methods.    

Research Interest

Medicinal chemistry, heterocycle chemistry of thiazoles anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, enzyme inhibition (COX, LOX, PTP1B)