Christophe Wiart

Christophe Wiart was born on 12th of August, 1967 in Saint Malo, France. After his A-levels, he completed his Pharm.D. at the Facult�e des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Universit� Rennes 2 (France) and earned his Ph.D. in natural products chemistry at the Universiti Pertanian Malaysia. He has taught pharmacognosy at the University of Malaya, and elsewhere. Dr. Wiart is the author of Medicinal Plants of the Asia-Pacific: Drugs from the Future? (2006), Medicinal Plants of Asia and...See more

Christophe Wiart was born on 12th of August, 1967 in Saint Malo, France. After his A-levels, he completed his Pharm.D. at the Facult�e des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Universit� Rennes 2 (France) and earned his Ph.D. in natural products chemistry at the Universiti Pertanian Malaysia. He has taught pharmacognosy at the University of Malaya, and elsewhere. Dr. Wiart is the author of Medicinal Plants of the Asia-Pacific: Drugs from the Future? (2006), Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific (2006 ), Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants: Asia and the Pacific (2006), Medicinal Plants from the East (2010), Medicinal Plants from China, Korea and Japan: Bioresource for Tomorrow's Drug and Cosmetic Discovery (2012), Lead Compounds from Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Cancer (2012), Lead Compounds from Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases (2013), Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome (2018), Medicinal Plants from West Bengal and Bangladesh (2019), Medicinal Plants in Asia and Pacific for Parasitic Infections: Botany, Ethnopharmacology, Molecular Basis, and Future Prospect (2020), Medicinal Plants in Asia and the Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics (2021), and Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the World for Aging (2023). He has published numerous articles. Other current research interests include the ethnopharmacological study of the medicinal plants of Southeast Asia for the development of herbal remedies and lead therapeutic compounds. See less