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Michael Heinrich, PhD

◼ Position/Affiliation/E-mail
Position/Affiliation:
Professor, Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy Group, UCL School of

Pharmacy WC 1N 1AX. United Kingdom; Chinese Medicine Research
Centre, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung,
Taiwan.

E-mail: m.heinrich@ucl.ac.uk

◼ Biography
Michael Heinrich is a Professor of Ethnopharmacology and Medicinal Plant Research
(Pharmacognosy) (https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/34589-michael-heinrich) and was until 2018 the

head of the research cluster / Centre ‘Biodiversity and Medicines’ at the UCL School of
Pharmacy. From 2017 – 2023 he served as the joint chair of UCL’s Research Ethics Committee
(with Dr. L. Ang, Institute of Education). Since 2022 he also is a Yushan Fellow at China

Medical University, Taiwan (https://yushan.project.edu.tw/TopTalent/EN/Intro#section1)
developing research on various aspects of Chinese herbal medicine. He is listed among the a
Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers (https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-
researchers/?action=clv_hcr_members_filter&clv-paged=4&clv-category=&clv-
institution=University%20College%20London&clv-region=&clv-name=)

The group's research is based on a transdisciplinary perspective integrating approaches from
the biomedical and social sciences with an overall aim of tackling the fast-changing global
health needs. Key areas of interest include wound healing and other inflammatory skin

conditions, incorporating the use of light for improved activity; the prevention and early stage
management of diabetes / metabolic syndrome and cancer chemoprevention based on the use
of traditional medicines as well as value chains of (herbal) medicinal products. The research
integrates methodological approaches from ethnopharmacology, natural product research,
public health research, and anthropology.

Currently, he is the President of the GA (Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product
Research), one of the largest societies in the field.
He is Specialty Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Pharmacology (Ethnopharmacology), among

a wide range of other roles. In 2023, he received the 2023 ABC’s ‘Norman R. Farnsworth
Excellence in Botanical Research Award’. He is an honorary fellow of the Academy of
Pharmaceutical Sciences of Great Britain.

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