As part of the cooperation between the PharmaCampus and Chungnam National University in Daejeon, South Korea, Münster student Martha Marquardt completed a four-month internship at the College of Pharmacy after her eighth semester. She shares her experiences at the university and impressions of South Korea in the linked report. Similar stays will again be possible in 2026; interested pharmacy students are invited to contact Prof. Schmidt (Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry).
On 30 October 2025, PharmaCampus will host its fourth discussion evening on the topic of ‘Women in pharmaceutical leadership positions’, to which all interested female students and female (post)doctoral candidates are cordially invited. Three discussion partners talked about their own career paths and then answered questions from the participants.
On October 20, 2025, the West German Science Slam Championship took place in Wiesbaden, and Jens Münchow won the competition. We congratulate him warmly and wish him every success for the final in Düsseldorf.
On 23 October 2025, the farewell ceremony for pharmacists who had passed their second pharmaceutical examination took place in a festive setting, as has been a tradition in Münster for many years.
At the 2025 Phytotherapy Congress of the German Society for Phytotherapy in Hann. Münden, Ms. Chiara Hensen was awarded for her poster presentation. The poster deals with research into the pharmacokinetics of the natural compound 1,8-cineol and presents, for the first time, analytical methods that allow a correlation between blood and breath concentrations to be used in a non-invasive measurement method.
For the discovery and research of a new therapy for the serious tropical infectious disease cutaneous leishmaniasis using a well-known European herbal medicine, arnica tincture, the Society for Phytotherapy (GPT) awarded its Innovation Prize at its annual congress (25-27 September 2025, Hannoversch Münden) to Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Schmidt and colleagues from the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry at the University of Münster and their cooperation partners led by Prof. Dr. Sara M. Robledo from the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia.
The Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry congratulates Anton Zürbig (Herrmann group) on winning a poster prize at the 73rd International Congress of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research in Naples (GA Naples, August 31 - September 3, 2025).
