Dr Fernando Reyes was invited to the “3rd Mediterranean Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants” held in Cyprus from the 13th to the 16th to discuss “LC/MS and NMR dereplication strategies for the discovery of new bioactive natural products". He described the available technologies and strategies used by MEDINA for the dereplication of natural extracts, a process that enhances the discovery of new active molecules in extracts that contain new chemical structures.