İbrahim Adnan Saraçoğlu (1949,

Safranbolu Safranbolu () is a town and district of Karabük Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is about 9 km north of the city of Karabük, north of Ankara and about 100 km south of the Black Sea coast. The town's historic names in Gr ...

) is a Turkish

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

professor,

biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and Cell (biology), cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of ...

microbiologist A microbiologist (from Ancient Greek, Greek ) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes. This includes study of the growth, interactions and characteristics of Microorganism, microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, f ...

and researcher. After his chemistry studies, he completed his PhD studies at the

Karl-Franzens University The University of Graz (german: link=no, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, ), located in Graz, Austria, is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria. History The unive ...

and became an assistant at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences. Between 1985 and 1986, he worked at the

Çukurova University Çukurova University ( tr, Çukurova Üniversitesi) is a public university in Adana, Turkey. The university has sixteen faculties, three colleges, seven vocational colleges, three institutes and twenty six research and application centers. ...

and made his doctorate in 1987. In 1994, he became a professor. He was a lecturer at the

and also was researcher/academic manager at the Institute for Physics and Biomedical Sensors of the AVL List. Saraçoğlu worked at the

Vienna Technical University TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...

as a professor. He is the author of a number of articles in international scientific publications and owns a number of patents. Currently, he continues his research on botany and the influence of plants on human health focusing on the field of phytho-biochemistry. Through his research, he concluded the healing effect of broccoli against prostatitis and benign prostata enlargement and the healing effect of lavender against hepatitis B and

hepatitis C Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that primarily affects the liver; it is a type of viral hepatitis. During the initial infection people often have mild or no symptoms. Occasionally a fever, dark urine, a ...

. He was the first to coin the term of "Preventive Vegetal Therapy" and built/stated its principles.

References

External links

1. Austrian Cancer Forum (German)

Web seite of Prof. Dr. Saraçoğlu

We are eating garbage!
1949 births Living people Turkish biologists Turkish chemists {{turkey-scientist-stub