Dr. Andreas Lardos

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Head of Research Group and Lecturer

www.zhaw.ch/icbt/phytopharmazie/

Expertise and research interests

Phytopharmacy, quality of medicinal plants, extracts and herbal medicines
Research and development with plant-based natural products
Ethnopharmacy, traditional medicinal plants, drug discovery
Historical medical texts, traditional knowledge systems

Educational background

PhD Pharmacy, UCL School of Pharmacy, University of London
Dipl. Botany/plant biology, University of Zurich
FVDH cert. study course in herbal medicine, Heilpflanzenschule Freiburg

Professional milestones

Past president of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network
External lecturer in ethnopharmacy, ETH Zurich
Guest lecturer in ethnobotany & ethnomedicine, University of Zurich
Pro Thesauro Sanitatis, Boniswil
Alpinia Institute of Phytopharmaceutical Sciences, Walenstadt
Flachsmann AG / Frutarom Switzerland Ltd, Wädenswil

Membership of networks

• Schweizerische Medizinische Gesellschaft für Phytotherapie (SMGP) (seit 2001)
• International Society for Ethnopharmacology (ISE) (seit 2008)
• Netzwerk Ethnobiologie Schweiz (seit 2008)

Projects

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

Publications

• Lardos, Andreas; Aghaebrahimian, Ahmad; Koroleva, Anna; Sidorova, Julia; Wolfram, Evelyn; Anisimova, Maria; Gil, Manuel,

  2022.

  Computational literature-based discovery for natural products research : current state and future prospects.

  Frontiers in Bioinformatics.

  2(827207).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2022.827207

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Heinrich, M., Lardos, A., Leonti, M., Weckerle, C., Willcox, M. (2018) Best practice in research: Consensus Statement on Ethnopharmacological Field Studies – ConsEFS. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 211, 329-339. DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2017.08.015

Lardos, A. (2015) Historical Approaches in Ethnopharmacology. In: Heinrich, M., Jäger, A. (eds.) Ethnopharmacology – A Reader. Wiley & Sons, Chichester.

Lardos, A., Heinrich, M. (2013) Continuity and change in medicinal plant knowledge: The example of monasteries on Cyprus and historical iatrosophia texts. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 150, 202-214. DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2013.08.026

Lardos, A., Prieto-Garcia, J., Heinrich, M. (2011) Resins and gums in historical iatrosophia texts from Cyprus – a botanical and medico-pharmacological approach. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2:32. DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2011.00032

Yöney, A., Prieto-Garcia, J., Lardos, A., Heinrich, M. (2010) Ethnopharmacy of Turkish-speaking Cypriots in greater London. Phytotherapy Research, 24: 731–740. DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3012

Lardos, A. (2006) The botanical materia medica of the Iatrosophikon – a collection of prescriptions from a monastery in Cyprus. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 104, 387-406. DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2005.12.035

Lardos, A., Schmidlin, C.B., Fischer, M., Ferlas-Chlodny, E., Loniewski, I., Samochowiec, L., Musial, H.D. (2004) Wirksamkeit und Verträglichkeit eines wässrig-ausgezogenen Weidenrindenextraktes bei Patienten mit Knie- und Hüftarthrose. Zeitschrift für Phytotherapie 25(6):272-279.

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