Frankincense: Applications in Traditional and Modern Medicine

Author Biography

Hidayat Hussain (Author) Hidayat Hussain received his PhD in Natural Product Chemistry in 2004. Following this he had positions as Postdoc and Group Leader at the University of Paderborn Germany and University of Maine France. He worked as an Associate Professor (2011-2017) at the University of Nizwa Oman. He was also a visiting professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2017. From 2018 - 2024 he was Humboldt guest Professor at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Germany. From October 2024 he joined Bioengineering and Biosynthesis Technology Innovation Center, Qilu University of Technology China as visiting Professor. He is also adjunct faculty at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China. His research interests include natural product chemistry and the synthesis of bioactive molecules. In addition, his group also works on the biosynthesis of natural products. This includes the elucidation of new biosynthetic transformations and their application to the biocatalytic synthesis of natural products. He has over 350 publications with an impact factor of over 1200. He has published one book (Elsevier), over 15 book chapters (Elsevier and Springer), major review articles in internationally reputed. He is an editorial board member of several international journals with over 11600 citations and h-index 54. Hartwig Schulz (Series Edited By) Hartwig Schulz (PhD) studied chemistry in Bonn and Kiel (Germany). After completing his studies, he carried out several years research in the field of human nutrition (vitamin E, phytosterins, plant lipids) at the university of Kiel, Germany. Then, as head of an analytical department he worked 10 years for one of the worldwide largest perfume and flavor manufacturers (Symrise). From 1996 to 2019, he was the director and professor of a research institute under the responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture in Germany. Hartwig Schulz is author of 259 scientific articles and book chapters and as the president of the "German Society for Quality Research (DGQ)" he was also engaged 8 years in food research on a national and international level. Since his retirement, he is working as a consultant, especially in the field of "medicinal and aromatic plants" and is also supporting various development aid projects on a voluntary basis.