Speakers • NNPC 2025
We are proud to present the following confirmed speakers at the Nordic Natural Products Conference 2025. We are continuously updating this page, please visit us for the latest information about NNPC 2025.
Maria Giovanna Chini, Associate Professor, University of Molise
Maria Giovanna Chini is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Bioscience and Territory, University of Molise, Pesche, Italy. She completed her Ph.D. studies in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Salerno in 2012. From 2022 to 2025, she is appointed Rector's Delegate to the Library. Her research interests are focused on the study of drug discovery; drug repurposing; in silico methodologies; structural elucidation; and NMR.
Maria Giovanna Chini's main fields of scientific interest include extraction, isolation, structural characterisation of bioactive metabolites obtained from natural sources, Design and synthesis of new bioactive molecular platforms, Analysis of ligand/target interaction by NMR techniques coupled to computational methods, Advanced NMR techniques and Initio calculations for the stereostructural determination of natural molecules.
Rohan Davis, Associate Professor
Griffith University
Rohan Davis’ research involves all aspects of biodiscovery including the isolation and structure elucidation of complex natural compounds, generation of natural product-based extract and fraction libraries for HTS, as well as the design and synthesis of bespoke semisynthetic discovery libraries. Rohan Davis has authored 183 publications, holds 2 patents and has been awarded >$5M in research funding over the past 10 years. In 2023 and 2024 he was recognised by Clarivate as a “highly cited” researcher.
Rohan Davis has led both industry and academic projects that have resulted in the identification of >1000 natural products from plant, marine invertebrate, mushroom and microbial sources. Rohan Davis is also the Manager of NatureBank, a unique Australian biodiscovery resource located at Griffith University.
William Gerwick, Professor,
Scripps, UC San Diego
William Gerwick’s research focuses on the bioactive natural products of marine algae and cyanobacteria, their application in biomedicine especially to parasitic diseases and cancer, their biosynthesis using genomic approaches, and the development of new methods in structure analysis including artificial intelligence applications. In 2005 he was recruited to Scripps (UC San Diego) where he currently holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Oceanography and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
William Gerwick is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Pharmacognosy and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Professor Gerwick's research group has published over 450 research papers and holds 26 patents. He has trained approximately 100 PhD and postdoctoral scholars, as well as many visiting scholars and undergraduate students, in his 43-year independent career in the natural products sciences.
Attila Hunyadi, Professor
University of Szeged
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Johan Rosengren, Associate Professor, University of Queensland
Johan Rosengren is a Group Leader and Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia. His expertise is in NMR spectroscopy and its application to natural products, medicinal chemistry and biology, and he has made significant contributions to both NMR methodology and peptide structural biology. After a joint appointment between Linnaeus University and Uppsala University in Sweden, Rosengren was recruited to University of Queensland where he established his research program on the back of NHMRC Career Development and ARC Future Fellowships.
Johan Rosengren’s research focuses on bioactive peptides, in particular how structural features control activity and stability. His main interests are peptide hormones, peptide natural products with unusual constraints, and the use of NMR spectroscopy in the design of novel peptide drug leads. He has solved >100 structures using NMR spectroscopy and published >140 papers that have been cited >7500 times. His work has been recognised by the Sir Paul Callaghan medal from the Australian and New Zealand Society for Magnetic Resonance.
