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).
Congratulations to Justus Mukavi (Schmidt group) on winning the 'Discovery Award' for his presentation at the 73rd GA Congress in Naples! The title of his talk, in which he presented results from part of his ongoing PhD project, was: 'Antiprotozoal Aminosteroid Alkaloids from Holarrhena pubescens Wall. ex G. Don.
The price for 2025 was awarded to a consortium from the University of Münster (Prof. Dr. U. Dobrindt and Prof. Dr. A. Hensel with PhD students S. Boertz and M. Dey) from the Institute of Hygiene and the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry. The research consortium is part of the Graduate School of Natural Products (GS-NP) of University of Münster.
The Society of Medicinal Plants and Natural Product Research has awarded Ms. Chiara Hensen a generous travel grant to attend the international annual congress in Naples. In addition to a poster presentation, Ms. Hensen has been allocated a lecture slot in which she will present the results of her research on “Rationalizing the dosage of herbal medicinal products for children using PBPK modeling: St. John's Wort as an example.”
As part of joint activities between the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry – Analytical Chemistry and the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry, ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) was collected around the Coesfelder Kreuz and the Leonardo Campus of the University of Münster, identified, and prepared for laboratory analyses.
