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Hanganu Daniela
Summary
I joined the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, in 1993 for my Doctoral thesis. In June 1997 I present my thesis The pharmacognostical analysis of Chrysanthemum balsamita L. (Asteraceae). In 2002, I graduated a Postdoctoral stage in the Ethnopharmacological Field at the University of Metz in collaboration with France Society of Ethnopharmacology. Currently, I am the vice-president of Romanian Society of Ethnopharmacology and I am specialist on phytochemistry. My research includes the field of medicinal plants, obtaining, characterization and standardization of extracts, testing their pharmacological action, testing antioxidant activity in vitro and in vivo, analysis and isolation of biologically active compounds (polyphenols, carotenoids, essential oils, terpenes, alkaloids), spectrometric and chromatographical analysis (HPLC, GC).
Nowaday, I am The pharmacist, Associate Professor PhD. at University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Haţieganu”, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Department of Pharmacognosy (Faculty of Pharmacy). My work is embodied in scientific papers: 10 books published in national publishing houses: CNCSIS-MECI, 5 chapters published in books, 105 scientific papers published in journals. I have been involved in 10 research projects (as member or as manager). I am member of the professional associations: Association of Romanian Pharmacists, Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Romania, Association for the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Southeast European Countries (AMAPSEC), Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) and Vice President of Romanian Society of Ethnopharmacology.
Key words of my research interests
Obtaining and standardization of vegetal extracts; HPLC, GS-MS analysis; polyphenols, essential oils, carotenoids, testing of the bioactive compounds (antioxidant, antitumoral activity).
