The School of Pharmacy is delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Maria Kristina Parr, Freie Universitaet Berlin – Institute of Pharmacy Germany, at NGU. Prof. Dr. Maria will give a lecture about “Bottom and Tip of the Pyramid: Mass Spectrometry in Pharmaceutical Analysis”. The lecture will be held at 11:00 p.m. in room C2.12.
About Prof. Dr. Maria:
Prof. Maria Kristina Parr studied food chemistry at the University of Bonn and obtained her doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Institute of Pharmacy, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. During her thesis, she developed a screening method for beta-2 sympathomimetics in human urine for use in anti-doping analysis. She was working as researcher for 14 years in the Anti-Doping Laboratory in Cologne, Germany, in different fields of research including method development, analysis of nutritional supplements and counterfeit drugs for doping substances (esp. anabolic steroids and stimulants), synthesis of steroidal reference substances and metabolites, investigations on metabolism, designer steroid identification and characterization.
In 2012 she got her habilitation (Venia Legendi in Pharmaceutical Chemistry) at the University of Bonn. In the same year, she was appointed full professor for Pharmaceutical Analysis at Freie Universitaet Berlin. The main research focus of her group is mass spectrometric analysis hyphenated to different chromatographic separation techniques with the main focus of analyzing drugs, their metabolites and related compounds in biological material. With Maria Parr’s long history in anti-doping research, the primary focus of the group is on steroids and other performance-enhancing and counterfeit drugs. Furthermore pharmaceutical quality management and analytical quality by design as well as analytical techniques for biopharmaceuticals and biosimilars are important topics in Maria Parr’s group.
She published more than 100 papers in the field of pharmaceutical analysis, bioanalysis and metabolism.