Aroma Compounds of Carrier Oils

Dr. Noura S. Dosoky is a member of the APRC executive board. Her focus is on natural product drug discovery (medicinal chemistry). She holds a BS with honors in Biological Sciences (Botany) and an MS in Phytochemistry, both from Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt. In 2015, she was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology Science and Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine-Vanderbilt University from 2016 until she joined APRC in 2018. She published over 50 research articles in peer-reviewed journals on the composition and bioactivity of essential oils from wild plants, drug discovery from non-volatile plant components, drug discovery using nanotechnology, and lipid analysis using LCMS. She has 63 papers publications with 1775 citations and an h-index of 21 (Scopus, 26 October 2023). She is currently working on the isolation and identification of bioactive compounds from natural sources.

Dr. Prabodh Satyal, Chief Scientific Officer of APRC, is originally from Nepal, where he worked as a lecturer in organic chemistry at Kathmandu University, Nepal. He moved to the United States to pursue research in essential oils at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. in essential oil research. He has studied the chemical composition of more than 10,000 essential oils from various parts of the world, published more than 100 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is an editorial member of several journals. He has a special interest in essential oil adulteration detection using marker-based analysis, and has created the only known mass spectral library of synthetic markers. He has played a significant role in establishing several essential oil databases and has spoken at ten reputable international conferences. He is currently developing the first-ever fully automated adulteration analysis software for GCMS that will identify the percentage of purity, origin, and mixed sources in essential oils.

William N. Setzer received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, USA, in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, in 1981. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the laboratory of Wesley G. Bentrude at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He started his academic career at the University of Alabama in Huntsville as an Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1985. He rose through the ranks to Professor and Chair of the Chemistry Department, and he is currently Professor Emeritus. Although he has always had a casual interest in plants, ethnobotany, and herbal medicines, his research in natural products started in 1990 after a trip to the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica. In addition to Costa Rica, his bioprospecting trips have taken him and his students to north Queensland, Australia, and the Bahamas, and he has formed several fruitful collaborations with groups in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Brazil, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Africa. His research interests are in natural products drug discovery, essential oils, chemical ecology, and molecular modeling.