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Namrita Lall, Ph. D.

◼ Position/Affiliation/E-mail
Position/Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria,
Pretoria, Gauteng, 0002, South Africa.

E-mail: namrita.lall@up.ac.za

◼ Biography
Prof Lall is a Research Chair at the University of Pretoria and has been placed in the Essential

Science Indicators list of the top 1% of publication outputs (citations) in the discipline
Pharmacology and Toxicology. She has recently been listed as part of Stanford’s University List
of the Top 2% Scientist of the World.
Six start-up companies named, "Bio Indigenous Solution" “Valoren”, "Blyde Botanics",

Cancare, "Scholareview" and "Looksci" (formed by Young postgraduates) resulted from Prof
Lall’s research programme. She has international recognition for her research into the potential
of medicinal plants for pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical purposes. Several pharmaceutical
products for skin-hyperpigmentation, anti-ageing, periodontal problems and liver protection

have been commercialized internationally and another 25 are close to commercialization.
Several License Agreements have also been signed for various actives researched under Prof
Lall’s supervision.
She has published more than 201 research articles, Registered/obtained 41 patents, more than

91 book chapters. Her H-index is 57 and RG score is among Top 5%. Five books on medicinal
plants edited by Prof Lall, have been published by the publishers; ‘Elsevier’, Springer and
‘Taylor and Francis’. Among several awards received in recognition for her work, a few are
“The Order of Mapungubwe”, South Africa’s highest honour from the Honorable South African

President Jacob Zuma (April 2014), and UNESCO-L’Oreal Award for Women in Science (one
of the 10 selected candidates internationally, March 2002, in Paris), the exceptional supervisor’s
award by the University of Pretoria (October 2021). She is at present one of the executive board
members, the Past President of an international organization, “International Society of

Ethnopharmacology (ISE)” and the founder and the President of a society, called, “African
Phytomedicine Scientific society”.

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