Thomas Efferth
Professor Dr. Prof. h. c. mult. Thomas Efferth is chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and director of the Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. He is a biologist by training. Awards: Prize of the Southwest German Association for Medicine (1991), Willmar-Schwabe-Award of the German Society for Medicinal Plant Research (2006), citizen medal of the City of Heidelberg, Germany (2008), CESAR Award for Translational Oncology (2011), SCENTEDdrop Award on medicinal and fragrant herbs (2015), Qihuang International Award of the Chinese Association of Chinese Medicine (2017), High Impact Paper Award of the journal Engineering (Chinese Academy of Engineering (2021). He is full member of the World Academy of Sciences. In 2020, he was ranked in the Stanford University Citation Ranking among the top 2% of all scientists and scientific disciplines.
Efferth holds honorary professorships at the Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, at the Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Moreover, he is visiting professor at the Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou.
Thomas Efferth published 720+ PubMed-listed papers and in peer-reviewed (Hirsch-factor: 93; citation rate: 45,000+; acc. Google Scholar) and a textbook on ‘Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology’ (Springer Publisher; 2006). He is editor-in-chief of Phytomedicine and Phytomedicine Plus as well as associate editor of several other scientific journals and member of several scientific advisory boards (e.g., German Pharmaceutical Society, Hong Kong Research Grant Council, etc.). Fourteen of his former lab members were promoted to leading academic positions (1 president, 1 dean, 2 full professors, 13 associate/assistant professors).
The focus of Dr. Efferth's research is on natural products, the pharmacology of cancer and viral infections, and network pharmacology.