Dr Eva Galante
Lecturer
Chemistry for bioscience
Department of Bioscience , School Of Health, Sport And Bioscience
Eva Galante is a senior lecturer in chemistry for bioscience and course leader of MSc Biomedical Science in the School of Health, Sport and Bioscience. Dr Galante's primary research interests include medicinal chemistry, with particular focus on natural products and cancer treatments.
Qualifications
- PhD
Areas Of Interest
- Medicinal chemistry
- Natural compounds chemistry
- Analytical chemistry
- Design of small molecules as chemotherapeutic agents
- Pre-clinical evaluation of novel drugs
OVERVIEW
Eva Galante studied biomolecular chemistry at the University of Catania, Italy. As a postgraduate she won a 2004 research fellowship at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), where she investigated natural products chemistry and was awarded “Best National Project” for achievement and technological innovation.
In 2010, Eva was awarded a PhD in chemical science from the University of Catania, where she had worked on the development of anti-tumour vaccine candidates based on tumour-associated glycomimetic antigens. As part of her doctoral programme, she spent a year at the John Innes Centre in Norwich researching new glycoconjugates acting as anti-parasite against Trypanosoma cruzi.
Eva served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University College of London, contributing to several multidisciplinary projects covering nuclear medicine, bioimaging and neurology. Her main projects focused on diagnosis of epilepsy and on the development of new chemotherapeutics against neuroblastoma.
After serving as a teaching fellow in chemistry at Queen Mary University of London, she was appointed lecturer in chemistry at the University of East London.
Dr Galante's primary research interest lies in medicinal chemistry, with particular focus on medicinal chemistry and natural products.
TEACHING
Publications
The last four years of publications can be viewed below.
Full publications list
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- Simple and effective method for the extraction of silymarin from Silybum marianum (L.) gaertner seeds Journal of Herbal Medicine. 37 (Art.100619). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hermed.2022.100619
- Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) as a prophylaxis for urinary tract infections in women: A systematic review with meta-analysis Journal of Herbal Medicine. 36 (Art. 100602). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hermed.2022.100602
- Silymarin content in Silybum marianum extracts as a biomarker for the quality of commercial tinctures Journal of Herbal Medicine. 10, pp. 31-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hermed.2017.07.001
- Preferential Targeting of Disseminated Liver Tumors Using a Recombinant Adeno-Associated Viral Vector Human Gene Therapy. 26 (2), pp. 94-103. https://doi.org/10.1089/hum.2014.052
- Development of Fluorine-18 Labeled Metabolically Activated Tracers for Imaging of Drug Efflux Transporters with Positron Emission Tomography Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 58 (15), pp. 6058-6080. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b00652