Therapeutic Perspectives of Tea Compounds: Potential Applications against COVID-19

About Farnoosh DairpooshKianoosh Dairpoosh

Dr. Farnoosh Dairpoosh earned a BSc in Cell and Molecular Biology-Microbiology and an MSc in Biology in Tehran Iran. She has great interest in analyzing metabolites and bioactive compounds. She was awarded a full scholarship from Jacobs University (the former International University Bremen) and she moved to Germany and earned a PhD in Analytical Chemistry-Natural Products from that university in 2011. During her PhD studies she worked on the identification and the profiling of polyphenols in the European Diet. She has identified and reported the presence of several polyphenolic compounds not previously reported in fruits and vegetables in the literature. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Analytical Biochemistry at the Technical Biochemistry Institute at Saarland University in Saarbrücken Germany. She has worked as a senior scientist both in academia and in the pharma-biotech industry. Her research interests revolve around bioactive natural compounds functional foods biopharmaceuticals and metabolic disorders.Kianoosh Dairpoosh earned a BSc in Chemistry from Kharazmi University Tehran Iran. She earned an MSc in Nanomolecular Science from Jacobs University School of Engineering and Science Bremen Germany in 2010. She has worked extensively on the investigation of polyphenols in green and black teas. Since then she has worked as a research scientist in the biotech industry. Her research interests revolve around nutrition bioactive natural compounds and functional foods.