Alexandra Gaspar
Postdoctoral Researcher
alexandra.gaspar@fc.up.pt
ORCID
0000-0002-3892-4124
Scopus Author ID
7102545856
Publons
AAP-6248-2020
Research ID
P-2811-2015
Google Scholar ID
Alexandra Gaspar
Alexandra Gaspar is graduate in pharmaceutical sciences by the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal, and possess a MSc in Quality Control and Food Toxicology, from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal. In 2013, she obtained her PhD in Chemistry, in the area of Medicinal Chemistry, from the Faculty of Sciences University of Porto.
Currently she is a researcher of the CIQUP’s Medicinal Chemistry group, and her research is focused in the early drug discovery process, with the development of innovative synthetic strategies and procedures to obtain concise and diverse-orientated chemical libraries based on natural products. She is deeply engaged in the design and synthesis of novel multitarget compounds to tackle emergent health problems such as infectious diseases and oxidative stress-related diseases.