Angela I. Calderón, Ph.D. is an
Associate Professor in the Department of Drug Discovery and
Development, Harrison School of Pharmacy, Auburn University.
She received her B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of
Panama, Panama City, Republic of Panama (1990), MSc. in
Pharmacognosy from the University of Illinois at Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois under the supervision of Dr. Djaja Djendoel
Soejarto and Dr. Cindy K. Angerhofer (1997), and Ph.D. in
Pharmacognosy from the University of Lausanne, Lausanne,
Switzerland under the guidance of Prof. Kurt Hostettmann
(2002). Then, she conducted her postdoctorate on biomedical
applications of mass spectrometry at Prof. Richard B. van
Breemen’s laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago
(2006-2008). She joined the faculty at Auburn University School
of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor in August 2008.
Dr. Calderón specializes in natural drug products
research, specifically applications of mass spectrometry to
natural products drug discovery for tuberculosis and malaria,
and quality and safety assessment of botanical dietary
supplements. Over the last nine years, she has authored 32
publications, 1 U.S patents, and 2 book chapters. She also has
received funding from agencies that include the American
Society of Pharmacognosy, United States Pharmacopeia, Auburn
University Research Initiative in Cancer (AURIC) and botanical
dietary supplements industry.
Dr. Calderón is a member of the United States
Pharmacopeia Botanical Dietary Supplements and Herbal Medicines
Expert Committee. Additionally, she is the Section Editor of
Pharmacognosy of Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput
Screening, member of the Advisory Board of Planta Medica and
reviewer for manuscripts from 25 journals on natural products
research and mass spectrometry. She has been grant proposal
reviewer for National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA and
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and
Project Management Jülich (PtJ) and Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), Germany,
and International Foundation for Science (IFS), Sweeden.