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From Biodiversity to Chemodiversity: Novel Plant Produced Compounds with Agrochemical and Cosmetic Interest
Third-party funded project |
Project title |
From Biodiversity to Chemodiversity: Novel Plant Produced Compounds with Agrochemical and Cosmetic Interest |
Principal Investigator(s) |
Hamburger, Matthias
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Organisation / Research unit |
Departement Pharmazeutische Wissenschaften / Pharmazeutische Biologie (Hamburger) |
Project start |
01.04.2010 |
Probable end |
31.03.2014 |
Status |
Completed |
Abstract |
The consortium will discover and carry to the stage of development candidates, plant derived small molecules with potential as new cosmetic and agrochemical agents. These compounds will derive from plants originating from major biodiversity hotspots in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. The starting point of the project will be a diversity-oriented natural product library of 500 compounds from the existing compound repositories of three project partners. Screening of this compound library in assay panels for agrochemical (antifungal, herbicidal, insecticidal) and cosmetic properties (UV-protection, anti-aging, anti-hyperpigmentation) will rapidly identify promising scaffolds. This knowledge will serve as entry points for a chemotaxonomy and chemodiversity oriented collection of plants which are thought to contain structural variants and decorations of these scaffolds. A liquid library of 3600 extracts will be generated and screened. Stringent prioritization and profiling procedures will generate 300 compounds as focused sub-libraries around the privileged scaffolds. A state-of-the-art technology platform for miniaturized natural product discovery will be used for the purpose. Evaluation of these sub-libraries will lead to 30 compounds which will undergo advanced testing to qualify 5 compounds as development candidates for novel agrochemical and/or cosmetic agents with new or improved properties over existing active ingredients. An additional outcome of the project will be an extract library with a unprecedented level of associated spectroscopic information and metadata, to be used for future purposes. The high-caliber consortium brings together international leaders in small molecule natural products, bioprospection, leading industries in agrochemistry, cosmetics, and spectroscopic data management and analysis. |
Financed by |
Commission of the European Union
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Cooperations () |
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Kreditinhaber |
Kooperationspartner |
Institution |
Laufzeit - von |
Laufzeit - bis |
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470279 |
Hamburger, Matthias |
Skaltsounis Leandros, Prof. |
University of Athens, Faculty of Pharmacy |
16.02.2009 |
31.12.2013 |
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470293 |
Hamburger, Matthias |
Spraul Manfred, Dr. |
Bruker Biospin |
01.04.2010 |
31.03.2014 |
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470297 |
Hamburger, Matthias |
Gupta Mahabir, Prof. |
University of Panama, CIFLORPAN |
01.04.2010 |
31.03.2017 |
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470299 |
Hamburger, Matthias |
Stien Didier, Dr. |
CNRS, ECOFOG, Kourou, French Guyana |
01.04.2010 |
31.03.2014 |
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470302 |
Hamburger, Matthias |
Breuninger Delphine, Dr. |
BASF |
01.04.2010 |
31.03.2014 |
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470304 |
Hamburger, Matthias |
Kletsas Dimitris Prof. |
Demokritos Institute, Athens |
01.04.2010 |
31.03.2014 |
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470305 |
Hamburger, Matthias |
Vasilatou Katerina, Dr. |
Korres, Athens |
01.04.2010 |
31.03.2014 |
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169728 |
Hamburger, Matthias |
Nivan Moodley, Dr. |
Center for Industrial and Scientific Research (CSIR), Pretoria |
13.08.2009 |
13.08.2012 |
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