Farsad Nadjafi

Prof. Dr. Farsad Nadjafi from the Shahid Beheshti University, Medicinal Plants and Drugs Research Institute, in Tehran, is also managing director of the company MateriaMed GmbH in Vienna. He has many contacts to institutes working in the field of Traditional Persian Medicine and will review the relevant Persian/Arabic literature. When selecting the plant species, priority will be given to (endemic) plant species that have been more or less unknown in Western medicine up to now.