Assoc. Prof. Angela I. Calderon

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.

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