Traditional Medicines and Natural Products as Preventive and Therapeutic Agents Against COVID-19: A Promising Response to the Global Unprecedented Pandemic

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Dr. Nabeelah Bibi Sadeer received her PhD in medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Mauritius (Mauritius) MSc degree in forensic science at Staffordshire University (UK) and BSc degree in chemistry at the University of Mauritius (Mauritius). Her PhD research was focused on the phytochemical analysis and pharmacological properties of mangrove plants and their associated fungal endophytes. Nabeelah has authored and coauthored more than 45 publications in high impact factor journals and in prestigious books with several other articles and book chapters under preparation or review. Nabeelah published her first authored book entitled Mangroves with Therapeutic Potential for Human Health” with Elsevier in 2022. Dr. Thomas Efferth is the chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany. He is a biologist by training (Technical University of Darmstadt Germany). Doctoral thesis: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg Germany (1990). 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 flagrant herbs (2015) Qihuang International Award of the Chinese Association of Chinese Medicine (2017) and SFE Outstanding International Ethnopharmacologist Award (2021). Since 2018 he has been a full member of the World Academy of Sciences and since 2023 an ordinary member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 He has been visiting professor (professional visitor”) of the McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School Boston USA. Furthermore he is honorary professor at five universities in China and India. In 2020 and 2022 he was ranked in the Stanford University Citation Ranking among the top 2% of all scientists and scientific disciplines.