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. et al. (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, 137(2), p. 101172. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2026.101172.
• Vahekeni, N. et al. (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). doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1731629.
• Stehlin, J. et al. (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). doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2024.118633.
• Zipser, B. et al. (2024) 'Interpreting materia medica : a case study on Ioannes Archiatrus', Wellcome Open Research, 8(502). doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20061.2.
• Lardos, A. et al. (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). doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2023.117622.
• Lardos, A. et al. (2022) 'Computational literature-based discovery for natural products research : current state and future prospects', Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2(827207). doi: 10.3389/fbinf.2022.827207.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

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

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Sellathurai, V. et al. (2025) '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', in 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. et al. (2023) 'Immunomodulatory studies on selected plants from the Hallwyl 'Kräuterbuch' : an influential recipe text from 16th century Switzerland', in Planta Medica. Thieme, pp. 1392–1393. doi: 10.1055/s-0043-1774171.
• Vahekeni, N. et al. (2023) 'Historical herbal texts from Switzerland : a potential source for plant- derived natural products against SARS-CoV-2', in Planta Medica. Thieme, p. 1422. doi: 10.1055/s-0043-1774265.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Urmann, C. et al. (2025) 'Targeting the hidden potential : bioactivity-guided metabolomics for antiviral compound discovery in plants', in Planta Medica. Thieme, p. 187. doi: 10.1055/s-0045-1814833.

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