Education

• B.Sc. Industrial Chemistry. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. 1986.
• M.S. Organic Chemistry (Phytochemistry). Instituto Tecnólogico y de Educación Superior de Monterrey. 1989.
• Ph.D. Pharmacognosy. University of Illinois at Chicago. USA. 2000.

Current research

• Natural Products Biotechnology

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Interdisciplinary study in native Mexican amaranth populations to determine their domestication center and assess the agricultural traits that allow the improvement of cultivars. (CONACYT)
• Lupane type triterpenes: biological evaluation and their potential for the treatment of leukemias. CONACYT

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Horacio Larqué García, Luis W. Torres Tapia, Esther del Olmo Fernández, Eugenio Sánchez Arreola, Sergio R. Peraza Sánchez*. Effect of supercritical CO2 extraction variability on the yield of Tridax procumbens roots extract and (3S)-16,17-didehydrofalcarinol content.. The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 163: 104859, (2020). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0896844620301108.
• Horacio Larqué García, Luis W. Torres Tapia, Marina Vera Ku, Rubí Gamboa León, Salett Novelo Castilla, Tania I. Coral Martínez, Sergio R. Peraza Sánchez*. Quantitative seasonal variation of the falcarinol-type polyacetylene (3S)-16,17-didehydrofalcarinol and its spatial tissue distribution in Tridax procumbens.. Phytochemical Analysis, 31: 183-190, (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pca.2878.
• Cristina M. Castillo-Bautista, Luis W. Torres-Tapia, Alfredo Lagunas-Martínez, Carla O. Contreras-Ochoa, Sergio R. Peraza-Sánchez, Rosa Moo-Puc*. Secundiflorol G isolated from Aeschynomene fascicularis, a Mayan medicinal plant, induces apoptosis in cervical cancer cells. Natural Product Research, 35: 826-828, (2019). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14786419.2019.1601092?journalCode=gnpl20.
• María Leonor Vila-Luna, Rosa Esther Moo-Puc, Luis Wiliunfo Torres-Tapia, Sergio Rubén Peraza-Sánchez*. Cytotoxic activity of casearborin c isolated from Casearia corymbosa. Journal of the Mexican Chemical Society, 62: 24-28, (2018). https://www.jmcs.org.mx/index.php/jmcs/article/view/370.
• Lía S. Valencia-Chan, Isabel García-Cámara, Luis W. Torres-Tapia, Rosa E. Moo-Puc, Sergio R. Peraza-Sánchez*. Lupane-type triterpenes of Phoradendron vernicosum. Journal of Natural Products, 80: 3038-3042, (2017). https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00177.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2016-2019. President, Asociación Mexicana de Investigación en Productos Naturales, A.C.
• 2018. Level II. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. (CONACyT).

RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES

• Asociación Mexicana de Investigación en Productos Naturales, A.C. (Amipronat). http://www.amipronat.org.mx/. Formato HTML
• Sociedad Química de México (SQM). https://www.sqm.org.mx/. Formato HTML
• American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP). http://www.pharmacognosy.us/. Formato HTML