Kurt HOSTETTMANN studied chemistry, culminating in a doctoral thesis in science at the University of Neuchâtel. Passionate about plants, he continued his training at Columbia University in New York. Subsequently, he held a position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, while teaching at the University of Neuchâtel and that of Friborg. Since 1981, he has been Full Professor at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Institute of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. In 2004, its institute was transferred to the University of Geneva. He is interested in the active principles of plants used in traditional medicine. He is the author of more than 450 scientific publications and fifteen books, including one written in English, has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian and Spanish. He has also published four books intended for the general public and appeared in several television shows. He has received numerous scientific distinctions, the latest of which are the title of Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai in 2002, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Toulouse and Honorary Professor at the University of Panama in 2003, and honorary professor at Shandong University in Jinan (China) in February 2005. In December 2005, Prof. Hostettmann was elected as a foreign correspondent member at the Académie Nationale de Pharmacy de Paris.
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Currently, Kurt is spending his retirement years in a pretty mountain village in Champex-Lac.
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Il en reste des souvenirs inoubliables, maintenant que je suis à la retraite. Ceci depuis octobre 2009. Je me suis établi dans le charmant village des Alpes valaisannes, Champex-Lac. Retraite active puisque je donne encore de nombreux cours, surtout de formation continue, des conférences pour le grand public. J’organise des balades pharmaco-botaniques dans ma belle région. J’ai une rubrique bimensuelle à la RTS La Première, le dimanche matin et … j’écris des livres et j’espère qu’ils seront encore nombreux ! J’ai reçu de nombreuses distinctions scientifiques, dont voici la liste non-exhaustive :
En 29 ans d’enseignement universitaire, plus de 1500 étudiants en pharmacie ont suivi mes cours et passé les examens avec moi. Septante doctorants ont fait leur thèse sous ma direction, pas uniquement des Suisses, mais aussi des chercheurs venus de France, de Chine, du Canada, du Brésil, du Cameroun, de la Côte d’Ivoire, du Congo ( Kinshasa ), de l'Algérie, de l'Île Maurice, du Mali et de Madagascar.
J’ai aussi accueilli dans mon laboratoire des professeurs invités, des post-doctorants et des stagiaires due nombreux pays différents ( Chine, Iran, Thaïlande, Indonésie, Vietnam, Norvège, Finlande, Algérie, Maroc, Rwanda, Kénya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ethiopie, Afrique du Sud, Brésil, Mexique, Pérou, Polynésie française). Quant à moi, j’ai parcouru le monde entier pour donner des cours et des conférences, de l'Ethiopie à l’Afrique du Sud, du Canada au Chili, de Tahiti à Nouméa en passant par Hawai , Bangkok, Shanghai, Hanoi, Singapour, Hong-Kong, Sydney.
DISTINCTIONS OBTENUES:
Distinctions obtained:
-Tate and Lyle Award of the Phytochemical Society of Europe
- foreign correspondent member of the Real Academia de Farmacia de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- guest professor at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
-Dr. Honoris causa from the Medical and Pharmaceutical University of Iasi, Romania
- Honorary Professor, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Adademy of Science, Shanghai, China
- honorary professor, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- honorary professor, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- foreign correspondent member at the National Academy of Pharmacy, Paris
- honorary professor, University of Panama, Panama City
- guest professor by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Kyoto University - Uji Campus, Japan
-Dr. Honoris causa, Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse, France
- guest professor, Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
-medal of the Phytochemical Society of Europe
- associate professor at Western Cape University, Belville, South Africa
- honorary professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- honorary professor, University of Geneva, Switzerland
-Gold Medal Egon Stahl of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research, Guimaraes, Portugal, in 2014 (highest world distinction in the field of medicinal plants awarded only every 4 years)
- member of the Swiss Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, August 25, 2021, Bern, Switzerland
To mention two more local distinctions received in 2014 in the Canton of Valais where I live:
- cultural merit of the Municipality of Orsières
- Entremont District award
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