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

• Ana G. Carrillo Aké, José Delgado Domínguez, Rocely Buenaventura Cervantes Sarabia, Adriana Ruiz Remigio, Jaime Zamora Chimal, Norma Salaiza Suazo, Luis W. Torres Tapia, Sergio R. Peraza Sánchez*, Ingeborg Becker*. Topical application of oxylipin (3S)-16,17-didehydrofalcarinol in mice infected with Leishmania mexicana: a possible treatment for localized cutaneous leishmaniasis. Journal of Natural Products 2025, 88, 959-966. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.4c01411
• Mario J. Noh Burgos, Sergio García Sánchez, Fernando J. Tun Rosado, Antonieta Chávez González, Rosa E. Moo Puc, Sergio R. Peraza Sánchez,* Carlos J. Quintal Novelo.* Semi-synthetic derivatives from a lupane-type triterpene isolated from Phoradendron watii with anti-leukemia activity. Natural Product Communications 2025, 20, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27196552
• Silvia Cab Baqueiro, Arely Anayansi Vargas Díaz, Luis Wiliunfo Torres Tapia, Rosa Esther Moo Puc, Sergio Rubén Peraza Sánchez,* Juan Bautista Chalé Dzul.* Interannual variation in the composition and bioactivity of Melipona beecheii honey from Yucatán, México. Food and Humanity, 2025, 5, 100918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foohum.2025.100918
• Mario J. Noh Burgos, Sergio García Sánchez, Fernando J. Tun Rosado, Antonieta Chávez González, Sergio R. Peraza Sánchez, Rosa E. Moo Puc.* Semi-synthesis, anti-leukemia activity, and docking study of derivatives from 3α,24-dihydroxylup-20(29)-en-28-oic acid. Molecules 2025, 30, 3193. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30153193
• Ivonne Sánchez del Pino,* Alexander Vrijdaghs, Mónica I. Jiménez Rojas, Jesús Alfredo Araujo León, Víctor Aguilar Hernández, Andrés Xingú López, Sergio Rubén Peraza Sánchez. The current state of our knowledge of the domestication and evolution of the grain amaranths: a critical standpoint. Annals of Botany 2025, 00, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf250

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