- Maria da Graça Campos completed her Ph.D in 1997 from Coimbra University Portugal and postdoctoral studies in 2000 at Industrial Research, Ltd at Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
- She is Professor of the curricular unities Pharmacognosy, Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapy at Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra since then. She also supervises master and doctoral students. www.ff.uc.pt
- She is Director of Observatory of Herbal-Drug Interactions, the first organization on this research field in Portugal since 2011.
- The research developed includes pharmacovigilance of herbal-drug interactions mainly with Oncologic patients.
- She is the head of the project IciPlant, developed at the Oncologic Hospital of Coimbra, Portugal.
- She also do Drug Discovery and is the team leader at “International Bee pollen Working Group at IHC” http://www.ihc-platform.net/forum.html since 2004.
International Expert at:
- World Health Organization (WHO) – “International Regulatory Cooperation for Herbal Medicines (IRCH)”. WHO Global network: global network of regulatory authorities responsible for regulation of herbal medicines. Since November 11th, 2015-actual.
- European Community – European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) – Isoflavones ESCO Comission) (2009-2013).
National Expert (Portugal) at:
- Ministry of Heath: Portuguese Pharmacopeia Commission. (INFARMED -National Authority of Medicines and Health Products, Government agency accountable to the Health Ministry)(2012-actual).
- Ministry of Heath: Commission for Non-Conventional Therapies – Ministry of Health. Portugal (2014-actual).
- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development: Commission for Veterinary Medicines Approval (2015-actual).
- Ministry of Economy: ASAE (Portuguese Authority for Food and Economic Safety- CTE “Produtos dietéticos, nutrição e alergias”) (2009-actual).
Recent Publications:
- Campos M. G., Bento C, Zorrinho I, Leite A. P. Interactions between drugs and herbal teas. In Food-Drug Interactions.Ed. by Nova Biomedical & Health, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Ramos F, Vitoria I and Caramona M. (2018) ISBN: 978-1-53613-553-4 eBook. Chpt 9. pp207-225.
- Vieira E. F. de M., Campos M. G. e Lucas F. C. A. The case of mururé (Brosimum acutifolium Huber) in the treatment of syphilis in colonial Amazonia: Historical data and their contribution to present medicine. 2019. Chapter 1. pp 1-18. Book of Ethnobotany. Ed. Mahendra Rai, In press.
- Campos M. G. Soy isoflavones. In Handbook of Dietary Phytochemicals Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2019. Chap.4. pp 1-40 In press.
- Campos, M.G.; Machado, J.; Costa, M.L.; Lino, S.; Correia, F.; Maltez, F. 2018 Case Report: Severe Hematological, Muscle and Liver Toxicity Caused by Drugs and Artichoke Infusion Interaction in an Elderly Polymedicated Patient. Current Drug Safety, 13 (1) 44-50(7).
- Costa M. L., José A. Rodrigues, Joana Azevedo, Vitor Vasconcelos, Eduardo Eiras, Campos M. G. 2018. Hepatotoxicity induced by paclitaxel interaction with turmeric in association with a microcystin from a contaminated dietary supplement. Toxicon 150: 207–211.
- Silva, Fernando; Dias, Francisca; Costa, Gustavo, Campos M. G. (2018) Chamomile reveals to be a potent galactogogue: the unexpected effect, The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 31:1, 116-118, DOI: 10.1080/14767058.2016.1274300.
- Campos M. G., Mariana Cupido, Raquel Tavares, Consul R., 2018. Clinical outcomes from tamoxifen drugherb interactions. Int J Clin Pharmacol Pharmacother 2018, 3: 140. https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3501/2018/140.
- Batista, C., Jesus, N.R., Silva, C.M., Silva, T.P., Campos, M. G. (2017). Herb‐drug Interactions: an insight into cardiovascular diseases based on case reports. Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, 14 (3) 142-149.
- Jesus N. R., Batista C., Silva C. M., Silva T. P., Costa M. L., Gervásio M.L., Campos M.G. (2016) Natural products for constipation relieve in cancer patients under therapy and potential risks associated to interactions. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapy 2016, 1: 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2016/ijccp/117.
- Encarnação T.,Cláudia T. Arranja,Tânia F. G. G. Cova, Alberto A. C. C. Pais, Campos M. G., Abílio J. F. N. Sobral, Hugh D. Burrows 2018. Monitoring oil production for biobased feedstock in the microalga Nannochloropsis sp.: a novel method combining the BODIPY BD-C12 fluorescent probe and simple image processing. Journal of Applied Phycology. 30: 2273 –2285.
- Burrows H. D., Campos M. G., Cédric Delattre, Catherine Dupré, Telma Encarnação, Marilyne Fauchon, Clément Gaignard, Claire Hellio, Junko Ito, Céline Laroche, Jack Legrand, Philippe Michaud, Alberto A.C.C. Pais, Guillaume Pierre, Benoît Serive, Makoto M. Watanabe. VI-Secondary metabolites analysis (Telma Encarnação, Alberto A.C.C. Pais, Maria G. Campos, Hugh D. Burrows) In Chapter 2: Microalgal biomass of industrial interest: methods of characterization. In Biomass, waste and related by-products characterization Ed. Jack LEGRAND (2018). 1-98 pp. In press.
- Delgado T., Paula V.B., Campos M. G., Farinha N., Caeiro A., Leticia M. Estevinho and Ofélia Anjos. 2018 Screening of Biological Activities of Ligustrum lucidum Aiton Berries: a Comparative Approach. Natural Product Communications, 13(12): 1685-1690. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2174/1574886312666170912163746.
- Negri G., Lidia Maria Ruv Carelli Barreto, Fábia Lugli Sper, Claudemir de Carvalho, Campos M. G. 2018. Phytochemical analysis and botanical origin of Apis mellifera bee pollen from the municipality of Canavieiras, Bahia State, Brazil" Brazilian Journal of Food Technology, 21: 1-16. e2016176. DOI:10.1590/1981-6723.17616; ISSN 1981-6723.
- Encarnação T, AACC Pais, MG Campos, HD Burrows. 2018. Endocrine disrupting chemicals: Impact on human health, wildlife and the environment. Science Progress 102 (1), 3-42.
- Urcan Adriana Cristina, Adriana Dalila Criste, Daniel Severus Dezmirean, Rodica Mărgăoan, André Caeiro and Campos M. G. Similarity of Data from Bee Bread with the Same Taxa Collected in India and Romania. Molecules 2018, 23, 2491-2510.
- Fonseca DA, Ferreira M, Campos MG, Antunes PE, Antunes MJ, Cotrim MD. 2019. Vascular effects of a polyphenolic fraction from Oxalis pes-caprae L.: role of α-adrenergic receptors Sub-types. Natural Product Research. 30:1-4.
