Kurt Hostettmann

Kurt Hostettmann, PhD in Chemistry, is Honorary Professor at the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Nanjing, Shandong and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai. Specializing in medicinal plants and phytomedicines, he is internationally renowned. He received the Egon Stahl Gold Medal from the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research in September 2014 for his outstanding work in pharmacognosy and phytotherapy. He is the author of more than 500 publications and a dozen books, some of which have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Farsi, Spanish and Portuguese.