Every second year, the BIONORICA Phytoneering Award acknowledges outstanding research in the field of development and application of phytopharmaceutical products.
This year at the GA conference in Naples in August / September 2025, the prestigious Bionorica Phytoneering Award was bestowed to Prof Dr Roja Rahimi in recognition of her outstanding research on natural products linking traditional knowledge and modern medicinal plant pharmacology and the formulation of natural pharmaceutical products. Prof Rahimi thus contributed significantly to herbal medicine innovation, standardization, and clinical research.
Prof Michael Popp, CEO and vice chairman of Bionorica SE, founder of the prize, traveled to Naples especially to present the award, but Prof. Rahimi was unable to attend in person because no visa had been granted. Fortunately, her presentation had been recorded and was presented to a highly interested audience.
Roja Rahimi
… graduated with a Pharm.D. degree from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, and continued her education to receive a Ph.D. in traditional pharmacy from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. She also holds a Postdoc in “Pharmacology of Medicinal Plants Used in Gastrointestinal Disorders in Persian Medicine”. She is now a Professor of Traditional Pharmacy at the School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She has been listed amongst the Top-1% highly-cited scientists according to Essential Science Indicator (ESI) in the years 2015-2017, 2022, and 2024. She has contributed to more than 200 articles and acted as editor and/or author in several book chapters for international publishers. Her field of expertise focuses on the evaluation of the safety and efficacy of Traditional Persian Medicine formulations in pre-clinical and clinical settings.
