A SUBJECT YOU ENJOY STUDYING THIS SEMESTER

 A SUBJECT YOU ENJOY STUDYING THIS SEMESTER

Hello everyone, well, mi favourite subject is Pharmacobotany, because I am learning about the procces and fundamental to discovery news actives metabolites from the plants, that can became new candidates for drugs. 

I also love this subject, because I want to do the research from my doctoral thesis in this topic. Sincerely I chose my PhD program because it has a line of research related to the studies of plants for discovering metabolites with biological activity, that can be a new drug for the diseases treatment. I think this topic is very interesting because it is innovative, and needs interaction of several disciplines.

Then, I would like to discover an alternative treatment for the Chagas disease from the medicinal plants, although there are drugs for the chagas disease treatment, but the drugs are very toxic, however, I also want to know which are the chemical components from a medical plant that is used by indigenous people in my country for the  tropical diseases empirical treatment, the name of this plant is Castanedia santamartensis from Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta. The next year I will travel to Colombia for gathering leaves from this plant for my research, and after that, I will come back to Chile, thus, I am motivated about my research in this subject and I feel that I love it. 

PS. When I need used the Mass Spectrometer, I will call to Daniel, because he is learning  a lot about this subject 😊

 

Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta

A carreer - related website that you enjoy visiting or an expert on your field 

Drug for Negleted Diseases iniciatives (DNDi) is a collaborative, patients´ needs - driven, non-profit drug research and devolopment (R&D) organization that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases.  

DNDi was founded in 2003, it is working in the following diseases: Chagas disease, Leishmaniasis, Sleeping sickness, Paediatric HIV, Filarial disease, Mycetoma and Hepatitis C

I like this organization for the vision that it has, which consists in to improve the quality of the health of people suffering from negleted diseases by using an alternative model for devolop drugs for these diseases. 

Throughout my professional carreer, for 7 years, I am working with tropical diseases like the Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis, which are the Negleted diseases. In this moment I am doing my research about the new treatment for the Chagas disease from natural products, like the medicinal plants leaves,  for that, I visit the web page of DNDi constantly, I like so much know about the devolop of the new drugs for this disease.

The adress of the website from DNDi is: https://www.dndi.org/ 

  Favorite Musician 

The Oreja de Van Gogh is a musical group originally from San Sebastián (País Vasco), Spain. I like this group so much because I love the lyrics of the songs. The Rock - Pop is theire genre . The name of this group was inspired in the name of the famous dutch painter Vicente de Van Gogh. I listen this group since I was a teenager. 

     

Other group that I like is Il Divo, It was formed in England in 2003. I like it because I love theire voices and melodies of the theire songs. My favorite song of this group is "Hero" I feel motivated when I listen it, other song I like is "My wey". I listen this group since I was 16 years old.

Il Divo is  is remarkable for its mixture and/or musical fusion of opera (lyrical singing and cultured music) with themes from different genres such as Latin music, pop, boleros, thematic, folklore, tangos, sacred music, and for the interpretation of versions of legendary and emblematic songs 

Pentatonix is the name of the other group that I like. I know about this band for theire song ALELUYA, I really love this song. Pentatonix is an American acappella group from Texas, was formed in 2011. I think that theire voices are pretty beautifull. 

I like so much listening to music every time, but when I am working in my laptop I prefer to listen to instrumental music because I can focus better with this music, for example I listen to melodies by Chopin, Ludovico or Vivaldi. My favorite melody by  Vivaldi is "for season" especialy the spring.