Michael Heinrich (biologist)
Michael Heinrich (born July 4, 1957 ) is a German pharmaceutical biologist .
After studying biology in Freiburg and a short stay at Wayne University in Detroit (MA in anthropology ), Heinrich worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Freiburg . M. Heinrich has been Professor of Pharmacognosy at the London School of Pharmacy since 1999 (UCL School of Pharmacy since 2012). From 2000 to 2002 and 2005 to 2007 he was President of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology. He is currently a member of the advisory board of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research.
His main research interests are ethnobotany in Mesoamerica (Heinrich undertook ethnobotanical field research in Oaxaca, Mexico), natural substances with anti-inflammatory effects and the quality of herbal medicines. He has been the coordinator of several EU consortia dealing with natural anti-inflammatory substances, food plants with potential as nutritional supplements and the medicinal use of cannabis . Current projects deal with the value chains of medicinal plants.
Fonts (selection)
- with Nereyda Antonio and Michaela Kuhnt: Medicinal plants in Mexico. In: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung. Volume 132, No. 8, 1992, pp. 351-358.
- Ethnopharmacy and Ethnobotany. An introduction. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8047-1775-6 .
- Ethnopharmacology. Wiley, Chichester. ISBN 978-1-118-93074-8 . (with Anna K. Jaeger, Copenhagen)
- Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy. 2004. Edinburgh & London. Churchill Livingston (Elsevier), ISBN 0-443-07132-2 (textbook); publ 2003 with J. Barnes, S. Gibbons and EM Williamson, 2nd edition 2012, ISBN 978-0-7020-5231-6 .
- Phytopharmacy - an evidence-based guide to herbal medicines. Wiley, Chichester. (with S. Edwards, I. da Costa-Rocha, EM Williamson)
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Heinrich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Heinrich on the London School of Pharmacy website
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| SURNAME | Heinrich, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1957 |