On the occasion of his 60th birthday, Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Egon Stahl donated a medal, a document and a monetary prize in order to recognize and promote young scientists working in the field of Pharmacognosy (Pharmaceutical Biology) and Analytical Phytochemistry.
The bronze medal and an award of € 1.500,– (at present) will be given to young scholars up to the age of about thirty whose thesis is of outstanding quality and which has resulted in publications in leading journals in the relevant field, forming a coherent body of scholarly work. Normally, the fees for attending the GA conference, where this work will be presented, will be waived.
List of Award-Winners
1986
Dr. Greet Ieven (bronze)
1989
Dr. Wolfgang Kreis (bronze)
1991
Dr. Thomas Wozniewski (bronze)
1994
Dr. Jean-Luc Wolfender (bronze)
1995
Dr. Guido Pauli (bronze)
2024: Dr Valentina Parisi (bronze)
The prestigious Egon Stahl-Award 2024 with Bronze Medal is bestowed to Dr.Valentina Parisi from the University of Salerno, Italy.
Dr Valentina Parisi has been graduated cum laude in Pharmacy in 2019 discussing a thesis about the isolation and characterization of diterpenes from Zhumeria majdae. During PhD the focus of her research was the chemical-biological investigation of medicinal and food plants, and their derived waste, traditionally used in Campania Region (Southern Italy) with the aim to valorise the ethnobotanical knowledge and promote the circular economy of a disadvantaged territory. The results of this research have been reporter in the PhD thesis titled “Bioprospecting from Campania Region to promote the sustainable use of biodiversity” discussed in April 2023. She is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Salerno, financed by National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) within the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC) . Her current research is focused on the phytochemical study of plants as sources of potential bioactive molecules, together with the use of NMR-based metabolomics to profile plant, food and biological matrixes. Dr Parisi has published up to now 23 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
2022: Dr Epole Ntungwe (bronze)
The prestigious Egon Stahl-Award 2020 with Bronze Medal is bestowed to Dr. Epole Ntungwe from Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa, Portugal.
With her impressive PhD thesis dedicated to research on natural product drug discovery, Dr Epole Ntungwe focussed on the search for novel lead structures from Plectranthus species to combat multi-drug resistance in cancer. She convinced the jury with her high level contributions adding to the scientific knowledge on the use of natural products to fight MDR in cancer.
2020: Dr S. Vlad Luca (bronze)
The prestigious Egon Stahl-Award 2020 with Bronze Medal is bestowed to Dr. Simon Vlad Luca from Technical University of Munich, Germany, in recognition of his valuable contributions to pharmaceutical biology and analytical phytochemistry, in particular his studies on bioactive metabolites from Verbascum ovalifolium Donn ex Sims and Verbascum blattaria L. The Award is dedicated to young scholars up to the age of about thirty whose thesis are of outstanding quality in the fields of pharmaceutical biology and analytical (phyto-)chemistry.2018: Dr. Emmy Tuenter (bronze)
The winner of 2018 Bronze Award was Dr. Emmy Tuenter from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Dr. Tuenter obtained her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Antwerp with an outstanding thesis in the field of Pharmacognosy and Analytical Phytochemistry entitled “Cyclopeptide Alkaloids: Isolation, Structure Elucidation, Antiplasmodial Activity and AGEs Inhibiting Properties”. Her PhD fellowship was granted by the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders
2016: Dr. Gorawit Yusakul (bronze)
The winner of 2016 Bronze Award was Gorawit Yusakul, Thailand. His research is aimed at the preparation of monoclonal and recombinant antibodies for their application in pharmaceutical sciences, in particular for quantification of relevant plant secondary metabolites. The most recent work involves the construction of single chain variable fragments and antigen binding fragment recombinant antibodies against daidzin and taxol. Mr Yusakul has published up to now 17 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
2014: Dr. Kenny Kuchta (bronze)
The Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research presented the Egon Stahl-Award 2014 with a bronze medal to Dr. Kenny Kuchta in recognition of his excellent doctoral research in the area of medicinal plant analysis.2012: Dr. Ulrike Grienke (bronze)
The Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research presented the Egon Stahl-Award 2012 with a bronze medal to Dr. Ulrike Grienke, University of Innsbruck, Austria, in recognition of her outstanding thesis in the research area of implementation of chemoinformatic methods in natural product research.2010: Dr. Melanie Laszczyk (bronze)
The GA presents the Egon Stahl-Award 2010 with the bronze medal to Dr. Melanie Laszczyk in recognition of her highly valuable contributions to pharmacognosy and analytical phytochemistry, in particular of her outstanding contributions to preclinical cell culture research, new galenic formulations and scientific steering of clinical studies. more… (pdf)
2008: Dr. Birgit Benedek (bronze)
The GA presents the Egon Stahl-Award 2008 with the bronze medal to Dr. Birgit Benedek in recognotion of her valuable contributions to pharmacognosy, pharmaceutical biology and analytical phytochemistry, in particular by her detailed analytical work and biological investigations on Achillea millefolium aggr.
2006: Dr. Karin Wölkart (bronze)
The Egon Stahl-Award 2006 with the bronze medal has been awarded to Dr. Karin Wölkart, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Graz, Austria, in recognition of her valuable contributions to pharmacognosy, pharmacology, and analytical phytochemistry, in particular by her outstanding studies on alkamides from Echinacea angustifolia, their isolation and characterization, and the studies of their bioavailability and pharmacokinetics.