Bioprospecting of Natural Pigments in Human Health

1st Edition - June 1, 2025
Editors: Siva Ramamoorthy, Thomas Efferth
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 0 1 7 - 1
eBook ISBN:
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Bioprospecting of Natural Pigments in Human Health provides a comprehensive overview of the therapeutic potential of these compounds. Covering the main pigment classes sourced f… Read more

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Bioprospecting of Natural Pigments in Human Health provides a comprehensive overview of the therapeutic potential of these compounds. Covering the main pigment classes sourced from plants, algae, and microbes, the book is organized around the applications to specific diseases and conditions.

With chapters on the anti-cancer, antidiabetic, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, anti-aging effects, cardioprotective and neuroprotective agents, the chapters cover the molecular biology principles of action, as well as bioavailability and structure.

This is the ideal reference for academic researchers interested in natural products pharmacology. It is also beneficial for the academic and corporate researchers in food sciences, and nutraceutical industries.

Siva Ramamoorthy

Dr. Siva Ramamoorthy is currently working as Professor and Dean at School of Biosciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), India. He earned his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in plant science from Madurai Kamaraj University, India. He carried out his PhD in Plant Genetic Diversity at Bharathidasan University, India. He did his postdoctoral research at Ben Gurion University (Israel) and Gyeongsang National University (South Korea). His research interests are plant pigment biotechnology and pigments biology. Around two decades, he has carried out extensive research on plant dyes and pigments. He was recognized as one among the top 2% scientists of the world - as per the Elsevier 2021, Stanford University and Mendeley 2020.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor and Dean, School of Biosciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Thomas Efferth

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.

Affiliations and expertise

Chair of Department, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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