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THADIYAN PARAMBIL IJINU

Also known as: T P IJINU

Naturae Scientific, The National Society of Ethnopharmacology, Academy of Bharatiya Knowledge Systems and Traditions

ORCID iD 0000-0002-0228-8904
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About

I am a Biotechnologist by training and an Ethnopharmacologist/ Natural Product Researcher by profession, with over 16 years of research experience in documenting traditional knowledge, pharmacognosy, natural product chemistry and pharmacology, bioprospecting, and intellectual property rights. My work focused on integrating traditional knowledge with modern science to develop herbal drugs, nutraceuticals, functional foods, and cosmeceuticals. I am skilled in advanced analytical instruments, molecular assays, and data interpretation. Currently, my research has pivoted toward genomics, focusing on validating traditional medicine and nutraceuticals at the 'omics' level by integrating advanced techniques with systems biology approaches. I am also committed to developing a unified protocol or methodology for the quality standardization of traditional medicines, viewing it as both a challenge and an opportunity in this AI-driven technological era. Moreover, I am involved in an ongoing collaborative research project between DST-BSIP (India) and the University of Chicago on the genetics of tribal populations and the gut microbiome.

Professional Highlights

 Principal Investigator of a ₹44.05 lakh DST-SYST, GoI-funded project, in which awarded the DST-Young Scientist Fellowship for postdoctoral research.
 Prepared digitised monographs of 10 economically valuable medicinal plants for NMPB, GoI; (UNPUBLISHED IN JOURNALS).
 Led health and nutrition initiatives and medical camps for tribal and rural populations (mothers and children) in Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts of Kerala (DBT funded).
 Documented 6,008 instances of traditional knowledge and created an IPR-protected database to develop scientifically validated products and benefit-sharing models supporting sustainability and tribal welfare (DST & CSIR funded); (NOT PUBLISHED).
 Developed a database of the All-India Co-ordinated Research Project on Ethnobiology (AICRPE), includes traditional knowledge of tribal populations across India, containing lakhs of information on 10,000+ plants (MoEF&CC funded); (NOT PUBLISHED).
 Published 32 journal articles, 55 book chapters, 3 authored/edited books, 19 popular articles, and 1 granted patent (h-index: 14, citations: 1028).
 Elected Fellow of the Linnean Society, London (FLS), and the National Society of Ethnopharmacology, India (FNSE).
 Elected Member of the Royal Society of Biology (MRSB) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), UK.
 Member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)—Medicinal Plant Specialist Group (MPSG) and the Western Ghats Plant Specialist Group (WGPSG).
 Serves as Guest Associate Editor/Topic Editor for Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (Scopus, Q1), Section Editor for Plant Science Today (Scopus, Q3), Editorial Board Member for the Natural Resources for Human Health (Q2, Scopus) and Journal of Traditional and Folk Practices (UGC-CARE) and reviewer for several esteemed journals of Elsevier, Springer, MDPI, and CSIR.
 General Secretary of the National Society of Ethnopharmacology (NSE-India), 2025 onwards
 General Secretary of the Academy of Bharatiya Knowledge Systems and Traditions (ABKST), 2025 onwards

Employment

  • Naturae Scientific Managing Director & Chief Scientific Officer
    2024 - Present
  • Amity Institute for Herbal and Biotech Products Development Young Scientist
    2018 - 2022
  • The National Society of Ethnopharmacology General Secretary
  • Academy of Bharatiya Knowledge Systems and Traditions General Secretary

Education

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