Dr. Andreas Lardos

Projects

• TCM Medicinal Plants Learning and Research Garden / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Plants and Minerals in Byzantine Popular Pharmacy. A New Multidisciplinary Approach / Project leader / completed
• GACP in Cannabis cultivation / Project leader / completed
• Computational literature-based natural product drug discovery / Team member / completed
• Installation of a TCM Medicinal Plants Learning and Research Garden / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Scott, A. C., Lazarou, R., Allkin, R., Nesbitt, M., Lardos, A., Lev, E., Gibbons, S., Grassineau, N. V., Brakeley, J., & Zipser, B. (2026). The use of minerals, plants and burnt materials in ancient medicine : approaches to working recipes in John the Physician’s Therapeutics from late 13th century Cyprus. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 101172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2026.101172
• Vahekeni, N., Stehlin, J., Urmann, C., Wolfram, E., Geissmann, Y., Ruedin, E., Peter, S., Engler, O., & Lardos, A. (2026). Historical texts as a potential resource for plant-based antiviral agents against SARS-CoV-2 : the example of the Receptarium of Burkhard III von Hallwyl from 16th-century Switzerland. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 16(1731629). https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2025.1731629
• Stehlin, J., Albert, I., Frei, T., Frei Haller, B., & Lardos, A. (2024). Plants and their uses in dermatological recipes of the Receptarium of Burkhard III von Hallwyl from 16th century Switzerland : data mining a historical text and preliminary in vitro screening. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 335(118633). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2024.118633
• Zipser, B., Lardos, A., Lazarou, R., Allkin, R., Nesbitt, M., & Scott, A. C. (2024). Interpreting materia medica : a case study on Ioannes Archiatrus. Wellcome Open Research, 8(502). https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20061.2
• Lardos, A., Patmore, K., Allkin, R., Lazarou, R., Nesbitt, M., Scott, A. C., & Zipser, B. (2023). A systematic methodology to assess the identity of plants in historical texts : a case study based on the Byzantine pharmacy text John the Physician’s Therapeutics. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 322(117622). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2023.117622
• Lardos, A., Aghaebrahimian, A., Koroleva, A., Sidorova, J., Wolfram, E., Anisimova, M., & Gil, M. (2022). Computational literature-based discovery for natural products research : current state and future prospects. Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2(827207). https://doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2022.827207

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Lardos, A. (2025). On the traces of Dioscorides in iatrosophia texts from Cyprus. In S. M. Oberhelman (Ed.), Tome 3: Remedies. Pharmacy, Drugs, Archaeology, Tradition (pp. 735–762). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110780062-030

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Sellathurai, V., Wolfram, E., Sabani, B., Müller, L. M., Vahekeni, N., Peter, S., & Lardos, A. (2025, September). In vitro studies on the wound healing potential of dermatological plants from the Receptarium of Burkhard III von Hallwyl, a recipe text from 16th century Switzerland. 73rd International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA), Naples, Italy, 31 August - 3 September 2025.
• Stehlin, J., Peter, S., Albert, I., Vahekeni, N., Wolfram, E., Frei-Haller, B., & Lardos, A. (2023). Immunomodulatory studies on selected plants from the Hallwyl “Kräuterbuch” : an influential recipe text from 16th century Switzerland [Conference poster]. Planta Medica, 89(14), 1392–1393. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1774171
• Vahekeni, N., Urmann, C., Stehlin, J., Hofer, N., Gmach, Y., Wolfram, E., & Lardos, A. (2023). Historical herbal texts from Switzerland : a potential source for plant- derived natural products against SARS-CoV-2 [Conference poster]. Planta Medica, 89(14), 1422. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1774265

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Urmann, C., Gmach, Y., Hofer, N., Vahekeni, N., Stehlin, J., Geissmann, Y., Lardos, A., Engler, O., & Wolfram, E. (2025). Targeting the hidden potential : bioactivity-guided metabolomics for antiviral compound discovery in plants [Conference presentation]. Planta Medica, 92(03), 187. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1814833

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