Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research: Dr. Willmar Schwabe Award and Egon Stahl Award

Dr. Willmar Schwabe Award 2012

For the 4th time the Dr. Willmar Schwabe Award of GA will be given in 2012. The Dr. Willmar Schwabe Award acknowledges outstanding results of pharmacological and/or clinical research in the field of herbal medicinal products. The award is endowed with 10 000 € by the endowing sponsor Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH, Karlsruhe (Germany).

The aim of the award is to motivate preferentially young scientists (normally 40 years or younger) to resolve phytotherapeutical and phytopharmaceutical problems in an interdisciplinary approach, in order to support the evidence-based use of natural products.

Research groups and scientists of universities and other non-commercial scientific institutions are entitled to apply. Scientific applications to be nominated (consisting of up to three relevant scientific publications on a specific topic which have been published during the last three years, the CV(s) and the list(s) of publications) must be submitted to the president of GA – Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Blaschek, Kiel, Germany, in electronic form (as CD-Rs in five copies) until April 4, 2012.

The Dr. Willmar Schwabe Award will be bestowed during the 60th International Congress (Joint Meeting with ASP, AFERP, PSE and SIF) and Annual Meeting of GA in New York, 28 July – 1 August 2012 (http://icnpr2012.org). The awarded scientific results shall be presented during the congress.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Blaschek, GA President November 2011

Documents to be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Blaschek, GA President
Pharmaceutical Biology
Institute of Pharmacy
University of Kiel
Gutenbergstraße 76
24118 Kiel Germany
e-mail: [e-mail]