The Apiceutical Research Centre has been established as a not-for-profit social enterprise. It’s work is guided by a number of highly qualified academics and entrepreneurs who are committed to the principles and aims of the organisation.
Despite training as a lawyer James Fearnley has spent the last 30 years involved with researching and manufacturing natural medicines derived from both from the beehive and from plants. For the last 20 years he has focussed on trying to understand the remarkable properties of propolis, a resinous product used by the bee to keep the hive free from infection.
Over this period he has carried out research at the universities of Oxford, Manchester, Strathclyde York and Bradford and has published a number of peer reviewed articles. He is author of Bee Propolis: Natural Healing from the Hive and Propolis in Oral Healthcare with Dr. Phil Wander.
President of the International Federation of Apitherapy
Assist. Prof. Dr. Ali Timucin Atayoglu is a consultant medical doctor
and a lecturer in Medipol University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the
president of the International Federation of Apitherapy. He has
established the first Apitherapy Centre affiliated with a university
hospital in the country. He works as the coordinator for the studies in
Traditional and Complementary Medicine in the medical faculty. He has
been interested in holistic medicine since he was a student in the
medical school. After his elective studies in London, UK in 1997-1998 he
returned to Istanbul and continued his studies in Integrative Medicine.
Meanwhile, he has travelled to countries from the US to
Japan, from Romania to South Africa and tried to increase his knowledge
& experience in that field. He has focused his “evidence-based
apitherapy” efforts on education, clinical care, and research—within the
principles of integrative medicine. In 2008 he travelled to China to
study with Prof Fang Zhu who is one of the world’s foremost experts on
Apitherapy. He is still working with him on the Apitherapy TextBook.
He is currently the president of Apitherapy Association in Turkey and the vice-chairman of Apitherapy Commission in China. He is a member of the Scientific Committee for the Traditional & Complementary Medical Practices in the Turkish Health Ministry. He is also the chairman of the Holistic and Integrative Medicine Association in Turkey.
Dr Dave Watson has worked in the fields of mass spectrometry and chromatography for nearly 40 years. He has applied these techniques to a wide range of problems in the fields of natural products analysis and clinical chemistry. In the last ten years he has focused on metabolomics and was the local organiser for the 2013 Metabolomics conference in Glasgow.
He has worked on propolis for the last eleven years and is particularly interested in its activity against infectious diseases which are prevalent in the developing world.
Prof Anant Paradkar is the current Director of the Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering Science at Bradford University. He is a highly experienced natural product researcher and formulator, with special interest in the health promoting benefits of Turmeric and Propolis.
Vassya Bankova obtained her PhD in Natural Product Chemistry at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. She has worked as a guest-researcher at the Ruhr University – Bochum, the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken, the Bandeirante University, Sao Paulo, and the Institute of Molecules of Biological Interest, Naples. In 2004 she became full professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, where she is now head of Lab “Chemistry of Natural Substances”.
Janko Božič teaches several courses in the field of animal behaviour and beekeeping at the University of Lublijana. His research is focused on honeybee physiology related to the different behaviour stages. That includes basic investigations of social communication as well related topics with beekeeping technology and bee products. Part of that are also investigation of behaviour and physiological background of collection and processing of the materials for different kind of bee products, including propolis.
Hugo Fearnley is a Director of Nature’s Laboratory, a leading herbal medicine and apiceuticals company. Originally training in languages and with experience in the charity sector, Hugo is particularly interested in the potential of beekeeping and apiceuticals as a tool for social and economic development. Hugo is focussed on developing the Bee Pharma Africa project and was recently awarded a Churchill Travelling Fellowship to begin this work.
Bruce Brown is CEO of CC Pollen a leading refiner and manufacturer of bee products in America based in Phoenix Arizona.
Bruce carries his father's – Royden Brown - enthusiasm for the potential of Bee Products believing as Royden did that bee products have a huge contribution to make to human health. Royden Brown- founder of the company was responsible for bringing the remarkable properties of pollen to the wider world. His Books include The Bee Product Bible and The Worlds Only Perfect Food.
Bruce learnt the art of beekeeping at an early age and has developed an international business researching, refining, manufacturing and marketing bee products all over the world.
He is a member and regular contributor to the Organic Beekeepers Association which every year in Oracle Arizona to review ways in which we can continue to benefit from bee products through sustainable beekeeping.
Bruce has a deep interest in native American culture and is an accomplished poet as well a regular long-distance runner.
Stefan Stangaciu is a medical doctor who has devoted most of his life to developing and supporting Apitherapy – the therapeutic use of bee products.
He is an active teacher and broadcaster, writing and delivering courses and talks on Apitherapy round the world bringing to Apitherapy a level of medical recognition to this age old but medicine.
He is Secretary General of the International Federation of Apitherapy and has founded / co-founded chaired or been a board member of many Apitherapy Associations including those in America, Germany, and in his home country Romania where he has been very influential.
Publications include: Soft Healing Through Bee Products, Gentle Healing with Honey, Propolis and Beeswax and Good Health with the Bees.
Miguel Vilas-Boas is a PhD in Chemistry from Porto University, Professor in Chemistry of Natural Products and actual Director of the Agrarian School of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal. As a researcher in the Mountain Research Centre his goals are focused on beekeeping technology, organic beekeeping and particularly in the quality evaluation of bee products. He has published more than forty books and papers in international indexed journals and presented more than two hundred and twenty communications in national and international meetings. Currently, he is the leader of the propolis group at the International Honey Commission, Vice-President of the scientific commission on beekeeping technology and quality of APIMONDIA and the Portuguese representative in the ISO committee for bee products standardization.
Biochemical Pharmacist, with master, doctor and pos-doctoral degree by Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (FCFRP/USP)
Vice-President of ABEMEL since 2016 (Brazilian Association of Honey Exporters)
Head of Research, Development and Innovation, member of Directors Board and Pharmacist Responsible at Apis Flora Indl. Coml. Ltda - Propolis Leader Company in Brazil (IMS Health, 2018)
More than 32 scientific articles, 5 book chapters and 7 patents until 2019, Sep.