Dr. Nina Vahekeni

Projects

• Natural Malagasy Plant Dyes / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• 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
• Vahekeni, N., Brillatz, T., Rahmaty, M., Cal, M., Keller-Maerki, S., Rocchetti, R., Kaiser, M., Sax, S., Mattli, K., Wolfram, E., Marcourt, L., Queiroz, E. F., Wolfender, J.-L., & Mäser, P. (2024). Antiprotozoal activity of plants used in the management of sleeping sickness in Angola and bioactivity-guided fractionation of Brasenia schreberi J.F.Gmel and Nymphaea lotus L. active against T. b. rhodesiense. Molecules, 29(7), 1611. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29071611

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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