Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research: Bionorica Phytoneering Award 2015, Egon-Stahl-Award in Silver, Dr. Willmar Schwabe Research Scholarship for Young Scientists

Announcement of the Bionorica Phytoneering Award 2015

BIONORICA SE is globally one of the leading companies in the area of phytopharmaceuticals producing plant based medicines with proven efficacy, safety and quality. BIONORICAʼs Headquarters are located in Neumarkt i. d. Opf. (Germany/Bavaria). The company is family owned since nearly 80 years.

A significant focus of BIONORICAʼs work is concentrated on R&D activities with annual capital investments of about 15 % of the companyʼs turnover. Although the centre of all R&D activities is in Neumarkt, BIONORICA has established further research institutes in Innsbruck (Austria) and Hong-Kong.

In addition BIONORICA has built a scientific network with multiple renowned institutions, organizations and scientists worldwide.

The Bionorica Phytoneering Award (BPA) acknowledges outstanding research in the field of development and application of herbal medicinal products.

The award is endowed with 10 000 €.

The purpose of the award is to motivate primarily young scientists (normally younger than 45 years of age) to perform research in phytomedicine focusing on following areas:

• generally any new discovery and innovative application related to phytomedicine

• pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of herbal medicinal products and their active principles

• clinical research in the areas of respiratory tract infections, inflammation, womenʼs health, pain, oncology and metabolic syndrome

• safety and pharmacovigilance studies

Scientists or research groups of universities and other non-commercial scientific institutions are entitled to apply.

Scientific publications on a specific topic which have been published during the last three years can be considered. They must be submitted in electronic form (as CD in 5 copies) until 28 February 2015, along with an accompanying document explaining the significance and relevance of the submitted publications in the broader scientific context, a CV, and a list of publications to the president of GA, Prof. Dr. Matthias Hamburger, University of Basel.

The Bionorica Phytoneering Award will be granted during the annual GA congress in Budapest, Hungary, August 23–27, 2015 (http://ga2015.hu/).The award-winning scientific results shall be presented during the congress in a lecture of 30 minutes.

Applications/documents to be sent to:

Prof. Dr. Matthias Hamburger
Pharmaceutical Biology
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 50
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland
E-Mail: [e-mail]