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Dr. Fabio Boylan

Associate Professor (Pharmacy)
25/6/7 WESTLAND ROW


Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 15 of February of 1972. Fabio Boylan studied Pharmacy at Rio de Janeiro Federal University, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From February 1996 to February 1998, he was Lecturer at the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculdade de Farmacia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His Master project "Phylogenetic Trends within Lamiiflorae" was sponsored by CNPq, a Brazilian Governmental Agency for 1.5 years and he got the degree after being evaluated by Dr. Otto Richard Gottlieb. His Ph.D. project "Chemical and Pharmacological Studies on Raphiodon echinus and Marsypianthes chamaedrys" was sponsored by CAPES, another Brazilian Governmental Agency. In several years he was awarded with grants from FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro Research Supporting Agency) and FINEP in 2003 when he had the opportunity to chair the XII Italian-Latin-American Conference on Ethnomedicine. Also in 2003 he was awarded with a special grant from CNPq due to his scientific collaboration to the Brazilian Science. Fabio stepped up as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1998. In 2006, he started his sabbatical year in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, TCD, where he further served as a research coordinator from 2007-2008 and now is a full time lecturer in Pharmacognosy. He acts an ad hoc reviewer for the following scientific journals: Brazilian Journal of Pharmacognosy, Brazilian Journal of Medicinal Plants, Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Phytochemistry, Iheringia Zoologia (Section Botany), Phytotherapy Research, Current Medicinal Chemistry, African Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Molecules, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Antioxidants, Journal of Chromatography, among others.
  Antiinflammatory drugs   Biochemistry, metabolism   Chemistry of drug metabolism   Chemistry of drug receptor interactions   Development of drugs for malaria, Cancer and inflammatory diseases   Drug development   Drug discovery   Herbal medicine   Medicinal Chemistry   Medicinal plants   Microencapsulation methodologies   Molecular markers and recognition   Molecular systematics   Organic chemistry   Pharmaceutical products   Pharmacognosy   Pharmacological Sciences   Phytochemical and pharmacological evaluations of native and foreign plants   Phytomedicines   Plant and algal cell monocultures   Plant Biochemistry   Plant biology   Plant systematics   Plant tissue culture   Secondary plant metabolism   Traditional and Indigenous health systems in developing countries
 Orbignya speciosa (Arecacea) as a potencial source of novel therapeutic agents: from traditional medicine information to the pharmacological evaluation of its chemical constituents.
 Chemical and pharmacological studies on Jambu and Piquia, two medicinal plants from the Amazon Region: development of new health products with nutraceutical and medicinal properties.
 Chemical and Pharmacological studies on Medicinal Plants from Kazakh Flora
 Investigation on the anti-inflammatory properties of selected Saudi Medicinal Plants and correlation of their activity with their chemistry
 The scents of St. Stephen's Green: would a Dublin city centre park be hiding a chemical treasure?

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Phytochemical Society of North America 1992
Brazilian Society of Pharmacognosy 2000
GA - Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research 2022
MENSOR, L. L. ; MENEZES, F. S. ; LEITÃO, Gilda Guimarães ; REIS, A. S. ; SANTOS, T. C. ; COUBE, C. S. ; LEITÃO, Suzana Guimarães , Screening of Brazilian Plant Extracts for Antioxidant Activity by the Use of DPPH Free Radical Method, Phytotherapy Research, 15, (2), 2001, p127 - 130, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
SILVA, Carmelita G ; HERDEIRO, R S ; MATHIAS, C J ; PANEK, Anita Dolly ; SILVEIRA, Cristiane Silva ; RODRIGUES, Verônica Pinto ; RENNÓ, Magdalena Nascimento ; FALCÃO, Deborah Quintanilha ; CERQUEIRA, Débora Malta ; MINTO, Andréa Barreto Mattos ; NOGUEIRA, Fábio Luis Pereira ; QUARESMA, Carla Holandino ; SILVA, Joaquim Fernando Mendes da ; MENEZES, F. S. ; ELEUTHERIO, Elis Cristina de Araújo, Evaluation of Antioxidant Activity of Brazilian Plants, Pharmacological Research, 52, (3), 2005, p229 - 233, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
MATHEUS, Maria Eline ; BERRONDO, Luciane Fátima ; VIEITAS, Eniana Campolina ; MENEZES, F. S. ; FERNANDES, Patrícia Dias , Evaluation of the Antinociceptive Properties from Brillantaisia palisotii Lindau Stems Extracts, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 102, (3), 2005, p377 - 381, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Amado, NG; Cerqueira, DM; Menezes, FS; Silva, JFM; Neto, V.M.; Abreu, J.G., Isoquercitrin isolated from Hyptis fasciculata reduces glioblastoma cell proliferation and changes B-catenin cellular localization, Anti Cancer Drugs, 20, (7), 2009, p543 - 552, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
de Sousa, VP, Crean, J, Borges, VRD, Rodrigues, CR, Tajber, L, Boylan, F, Cabral, LM, Nanostructured systems containing babassu (Orbignya speciosa) oil as a potential alternative therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NANOMEDICINE, 8, 2013, p3129-3139 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
C.G. Silva, R. Raulino, D.M. Cerqueira, M.D. Pereira, A.D. Panek, J.F.M. Silva, E.C.A. Eleutherio, F.S. Menezes., In vitro and in vivo determination of antioxidant activity and mode ofaction of isoquercitrin and Hyptis fasciculata, Phytomedicine, 2009, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
MENEZES, F. S. ; BORSATTO, Â. S. ; PEREIRA, Nuno Álvares ; MATOS, F. J. A. ; KAPLAN, Maria Auxiliadora Coelho , Chamaedrydiol, an Ursane Triterpene from Marsypianthes chamaedrys., Phytochemistry, 48, (2), 1998, p323 - 325, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Pinheiro, MMG; Bessa, SO; Fingolo, CE; Kuster, RM; Matheus, ME; Menezes, FS; Fernandes, PD, Antinociceptive activity of fractions from Couroupita guianensis Aubl. leaves , Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 127, (2), 2010, p407 - 413, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Radulovic, N; Blagojevic, PD; Rabbitt, K ; Menezes, FD , Essential oil of Nepeta x faassenii Bergmans ex Stearn (N. mussinii Spreng. x N. nepetella L.): A Comparison Study , Natural Product Communications, 6, (7), 2011, p1015 - 1022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Niko S. Radulović, Ana B. Miltojević, Michael McDermott, Steve Waldren, John Adrian Parnell, Mariana Martins Gomes Pinheiro, Patricia Dias Fernandes, Fabio de Sousa Menezes, Identification of a new antinociceptive alkaloid isopropyl N-methylanthranilate from the essential oil of Choisya ternata Kunth, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 135, (3), 2011, p610-619 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
  

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M Gaspar, F de Sousa Menezes, MW Radomski, C Ehrhardt, Effect of liposomal systems on human platelet aggregation, AAPS J, 22nd Annual Meeting of the AAPS, Atlanta, GA, 16-20/11/2008, 10, (S2), 2008, ppT2107 , Meeting Abstract, PUBLISHED
Niko S. Radulovi", Marko Z. Mladenovi", Dušan R. Vuki"evi", Nikola M. Stojanovi", Pavle J. Randjelovi" , Z. Stojanovi"-Radi" and Fabio Boylan , Pulicaria dysenterica (L.) Bernh."Rightfully Earned Name? Identification and Biological Activity of New 3-Methoxycuminyl Esters from P. dysenterica Essential Oil, Plants, 11, (23), 2022, Notes: [DOI10.3390/plants11233340], Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  

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Cum Laude Diploma 1992
Global Relations Certificate of Excellence 2015-2016
MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST AND ON-GOING INVESTIGATIONS: i) Chemical and pharmacological evaluation of species belonging to the family Rutaceae; ii) Chemical evaluation of drugs of abuse iii) Analysis of essential oil constituents and their pharmacological evaluation for selective medicinal plants