Martine Cao, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Martine Cao joined the Sporn Lab in January 2013. She is currently exploring the activation of stem cells by new triterpenoid compounds in chondrogenesis. She earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Liège, Belgium in 2012. For her thesis, she evaluated the antiplasmodial activity of natural substances and natural extracts.

Publications

  1. Jonville M, Kodja H, Humeau L, Fournel J, De Mol P, Cao M, Angenot L, Frederich M, Screening of medicinal plants from Reunion Island for antimalarial and cytotoxic activity, J Ethnopharmacol. 2008, 120(3):382-6.
  2. Saidou Balde el-H, Mégalizzi V, Cao M, Angenot L, Kiss R, Van Damme M, Frederich M, Isostrychnopentamine, an Indolomonoterpenic Alkaloid from Strychnos usambarensis, with Potential Antitumor Activity against Apoptosis-Resistant Cancer Cells, Int J Oncol. 2010, 36(4):961-5.
  3. Liu NQ, Cao M, Frédérich M, Choi YH, Verpoorte R, van der Kooy F, Metabolomic investigation of the ethnopharmacological use of Artemisia afra with NMR spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis, J Ethnopharmacol. 2010, 128(1):230-5.
  4. Nistor I*, Cao M*, Debrus B, Lebrun P, Lecomte F, Rozet E, Angenot L, Frederich M, Oprean R, Hubert Ph, Application of a new optimization strategy for the separation of tertiary alkaloids extracted from Strychnos usambarensis leaves, J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2011, 56(1):30-7.
    * These authors contributed equally to this work.
  5. Cao M, Muganga R, Tits M, Angenot L, Frédérich M, 17-O-Acetyl,10-hydroxycorynantheol, a selective antiplasmodial alkaloid isolated from Strychnos usambarensis leaves, Planta Med. 2011, 77(18):2050-3.
  6. Cao M, Muganga R, Nistor I, Tits M, Angenot L, Frédérich M, LC-SPE-NMR-MS analysis of Strychnos usambarensis fruits from Rwanda, Phytochem Lett. 2012, 5(1): 170-73.
  7. Tchinda AT, Tamze V, Ngono AR, Ayimele GA, Cao M, Angenot L, Frédérich M, Alkaloids from the stem bark of Strychnos icaja, Phytochem Lett. 2012, 5(1): 108-13.
  8. Tchinda AT, Ngono AR, Tamze V, Jonville MC, Cao M, Angenot L, Frédérich M, Antiplasmodial Alkaloids from the Stem Bark of Strychnos malacoclados, Planta Med. 2012, 78(4): 377-82.