ARN workshop at ICNPR 2024 and Online
19. June 2024
The 5th edition of the African Research Workshop will take place at INCPR 2024 and ONLINE on Saturday, 13th July. Please click here for further information.
Philipp König
GA eSeminar „Tradition, chances and challenges: Research on natural products in two South-East Asian Countries”
19. June 2024
The next issue of the GA eSeminars will take place on Friday, June 28, 15 CEST via Zoom. Please click here for further information.
Presidential wrap-up of GA in 2023
22. December 2023
Dear GA members, It is my pleasure to offer you the GA highlights of the year 2023 in a few lines – for more details you are cordially invited to click on the respective links. Also in this year which
Two inspiring new GA honorary members
22. December 2023
This year, the Board of Directors of the GA appointed two outstanding GA members as Honorary Members because they rendered special service either to medicinal plant research or to our Society. We highly welcome Matthias F. Melzig, retired Professor at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germans, and José Luis Ríos-Cañavate, retired Professor at the University of Valencia, Spain, to the family of GA Honorary Members.
Welcome to 2021 – reflection and outlook
14. January 2021
What is a society’s impact without bringing together its members? Without fruitful personal discussions, inspiring conferences, without social events and get-togethers with colleagues and friends? 2020 was an exceptional and demanding year for all of us. Let’s briefly condense and reflect what happened over the past year in our society, and share with you some forthcoming endeavours. We wish you happiness and health for 2021!
Mahabir Gupta, 1942-2020
20. December 2020
Mahabir Prashad Gupta, born on October 3, 1942 in Gajsinghpur, India passed away on December 14th as a consequence of Covid-19. He was admitted to hospital in early November, had tested negative a week before he died and was out of the Covid ward. He then tested positive again and passed away following complications of the disease. Since 1972 he was a professor of Pharmacognosy at the University of Panama, Republic of Panama with many roles and responsibilities associated with it for nearly fifty years.
In memoriam Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hartmut Derendorf (1953-2020)
1. December 2020
The GA community was saddened to learn of the sudden death of Prof Dr. Hartmut Derendorf on Monday, November 23, at the age of 67. Professor Derendorf was a world-renowned expert in pharmacokinetics and pharmacometrics.
14th GA Young Researchers’ Workshop
26. November 2020
The GA Young Researchers’ Workshop (YRW) 2020 took place on November 7th and was for the first time held online as an eSymposium.
Planta Medica Special Issue for Prof. Wolfgang Kubelka
3. November 2020
Thanks to the initiative of the editor-in-chief Robert Fürst a special issue of Planta Medica could be dedicated to Prof. Wolfgang Kubelka on the occasion of the 85th birthday.
Egon Stahl Award in Gold to Professor A. Douglas Kinghorn from GA
6. October 2020
The prestigious Egon Stahl-Award in Gold 2020 is bestowed to Prof. Dr. A. Douglas Kinghorn in recognition of his leading role in the natural product drug discovery, in particular those with anticancer, cancer chemopreventive, and substances with a sweet taste and taste-modifying agents.
