Zhen Liu received his B.Sc. degree (2008) in Pharmacy
and his Master’s (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) degrees in Pharmacognosy from Peking University. He then joined the
group of Prof. Peter Proksch at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology in Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf as a postdoctoral research associate. His research
mainly focuses on isolation, structural elucidation, and modification of bioactive secondary metabolites from marine
sponges, corals, mangrove plants, and their associated
microorganisms. Up to the present, he published more than
40 papers in scientific journals, including the “Journal of
Natural Products”, “Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry”,
“Marine Drugs”, and “RSC Advances”.
Marian Frank is currently working as a postdoctoral
researcher at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and
Biotechnology in Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Prior to this, he performed his Ph.D. studies in the same
institute, in the group of Prof. Peter Proksch from 2014 to
2018 and received his Ph.D. degree on the topic “Bioactive
Secondary Metabolites from Endophytic and Marine Fungi”
in March 2019. As an undergraduate student, he studied
pharmacy at the HHU Düsseldorf from 2008 to 2012 and
received his license to practice pharmacy in 2013. He is well
versed in the production, isolation, and structure elucidation
of natural products as well as in (semi)synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of fungal secondary metabolites. His
work and contributions have led to several peer-reviewed
publications in natural product and medicinal chemistry
journals. His main research interests are the discovery of
cryptic secondary metabolites and mode of action studies
for active fungal metabolites with unknown targets.
Xiaoqin Yu is undertaking her Ph.D. degree in pharmacy at
the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf under the guidance of Prof. Peter Proksch. Her work involves the search of
bioactive fungal secondary metabolites. She received her
B.Sc. degree in bioengineering (2014) and Master’s degree
in pharmacology (2017) from China Three Gorges University, People’s Republic of China, where she was a member of
Key Laboratory of Natural Products Research and Development in Hubei, China and studied the isolation and structural
elucidation of chemical constituents of Chinese medical
plants. She started her doctoral research in 2017, leading to
one publication as first author and two ongoing projects on
secondary metabolites from plant-associated fungi.
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and his Master’s (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) degrees in Pharmacognosy from Peking University. He then joined the
group of Prof. Peter Proksch at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology in Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf as a postdoctoral research associate. His research
mainly focuses on isolation, structural elucidation, and modification of bioactive secondary metabolites from marine
sponges, corals, mangrove plants, and their associated
microorganisms. Up to the present, he published more than
40 papers in scientific journals, including the “Journal of
Natural Products”, “Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry”,
“Marine Drugs”, and “RSC Advances”.
Marian Frank is currently working as a postdoctoral
researcher at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and
Biotechnology in Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Prior to this, he performed his Ph.D. studies in the same
institute, in the group of Prof. Peter Proksch from 2014 to
2018 and received his Ph.D. degree on the topic “Bioactive
Secondary Metabolites from Endophytic and Marine Fungi”
in March 2019. As an undergraduate student, he studied
pharmacy at the HHU Düsseldorf from 2008 to 2012 and
received his license to practice pharmacy in 2013. He is well
versed in the production, isolation, and structure elucidation
of natural products as well as in (semi)synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of fungal secondary metabolites. His
work and contributions have led to several peer-reviewed
publications in natural product and medicinal chemistry
journals. His main research interests are the discovery of
cryptic secondary metabolites and mode of action studies
for active fungal metabolites with unknown targets.
Xiaoqin Yu is undertaking her Ph.D. degree in pharmacy at
the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf under the guidance of Prof. Peter Proksch. Her work involves the search of
bioactive fungal secondary metabolites. She received her
B.Sc. degree in bioengineering (2014) and Master’s degree
in pharmacology (2017) from China Three Gorges University, People’s Republic of China, where she was a member of
Key Laboratory of Natural Products Research and Development in Hubei, China and studied the isolation and structural
elucidation of chemical constituents of Chinese medical
plants. She started her doctoral research in 2017, leading to
one publication as first author and two ongoing projects on
secondary metabolites from plant-associated fungi.
Secondary Metabolites from Marine-Derived Fungi from China
151