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InnCoCells – Innovative cosmetic ingredients from plants and plant cells

14. October 2021

The InnCoCells project aims to revolutionize the way cosmetic ingredients are sourced, produced and tested by developing sustainable production processes based on plant cell and tissue cultures, aeroponics, greenhouse/field-grown plants and agricultural waste streams. These will be used for the extraction of valuable cosmetic ingredients for testing in a range of cell and tissue assays. The most promising ingredients will be tested on human volunteers before commercial exploitation. The project is guided by Stakeholder Group that includes the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research.

Survey participation invitation – Best Practice in the Characterisation of Extracts used in Pharmacological Research

14. October 2021

Support needed for Best Practice Guidelines for the Characterisation of Extracts used in Pharmacological, Clinical and Toxicological Research

SECRETed Project H2020

1. October 2021

A new project on marine natural products has just started under Horizon 2020. SECRETed is aspiring to fully exploit the Systems and Synthetic Biology toolboxes to unlock the potential of marine and extremophilic bacteria for the development of biosurfactants and siderophores. New strains will be designed, built and tested for the production of industrial driven (agrochemical, cosmetic, nutrition and health) tailor made natural compounds.

GA-Congress 2021: a full success

21. September 2021

The first virtual GA-congress took place in September 2021 and was very successful.

African-German Research Meeting

21. September 2021

The Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry at University of Münster (Germany) hosted the annual meeting of an African-German Research Network Infectiology.

15th GA Young Researchers’ Workshop

16. September 2021

The GA Young Researchers’ Workshop (YRW) 2021 was held on September 5th as a pre-symposium of the GA 2021 Conference

Regulation of Natural Products – a Global Challenge

27. August 2021

The regulation of natural products is a global challenge, given the multitude of regulatory pathways and different approaches globally.

Bionorica Phytoneering Award to Dr. Nadja B. Cech

17. August 2021

The prestigious Bionorica Phytoneering Award 2021 is bestowed to Prof. Dr. Nadja B. Cech in recognition of her excellent research focussing on metabolomic analysis of medicinal plants and their active constituents. The Bionorica Phytoneering Award acknowledges outstanding research in the field of development and application of phytopharmaceutical products. It is a pleasure to award Prof. Dr. Nadja B. Cech, a young, outstanding researcher from the US working in the field of botanical natural products.

Egon Stahl Award in Silver to Dr. Luiz Carlos Klein Júnior

17. August 2021

The prestigious Egon Stahl-Award 2021 in Silver is bestowed to Dr. Luiz Carlos Klein Júnior from Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Brazil, in recognition of his valuable contributions to pharmaceutical biology and analytical phytochemistry, in particular his research related to chemometrics and chromatography.

Dr. Willmar Schwabe Research Scholarship 2021 to Isa Anina Lambrechts

16. August 2021

The Dr. Willmar Schwabe Research Scholarship 2021 is bestowed to Isa Anina Lambrechts from the University of Pretoria to perform studies on Plectranthus genus fermented extracts. The aim of the Dr. Willmar Schwabe Research Scholarship is to support young scientists, especially from developing countries, in a research attachment to a leading research institution.