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Michele Protti

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology

Academic discipline: CHIM/08 Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research

Keywords: Analytical methods Microsampling Sample pretreatment doping agents Drugs of abuse SNC drugs Biological and non-biological matrices

Development of innovative strategies for the analysis of bioactive substances.

Development, validation and application of original methods for the quali-quantitative analysis of classical drugs of abuse, new synthetic compounds, doping agents, CNS drugs, metabolites and markers in biological and non-biological samples.

Development of advanced instrumental methods based on high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to several detection means (LC-MS, LC-MS/MS, HPLC-UV/DAD, HPLC-F, HPLC-ED).

Development, optimization and validation of innovative miniaturized sampling and pretreatment procedures for biological and non-biological samples.

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of CNS drugs: antipsychotics, antidepressants, antiepileptic and sedative-hypnotics.

Analysis of bioactive compounds in natural matrices, food supplements and herbal products.