HerbResearch

• 1966 - 1967 Quality control (Company Braun, Mulhouse)

• 1968 - 1969 Head of Quality Control (Company Cartorhin, Guebwiller)

• 1970 CEO HEC, Paris

• 1971 - 1975 Head of Department for Creative Methodology at the main seat of the ITQA group, Paris

Since 1976 Development and coordination of many programs in research, development and improvement of medicinal
plants and phytochemistry. Focus on identification of chemotypes and traceability of origin of herbal raw
material.

Memberships

• European Society for Ethanopharmacology
• Club d'Expertise Chimique de Méditerranée
• Société des Experts Chimiques de France
• International Society for Medicinal Plant Research

Publications

1. J. Eich, M. Schmidt, G. Betti: HPLC Analysis of Iridoid Compounds of Harpagophytum taxa: Quality control of pharmaceutical drug material. Pharm. Phamacol. Lett. 8(2), 78-78 (1998).
2. M. Schmidt, J. Eich, J. Kreimeyer, G. Betti: Anbau der Teufelskralle. Dtsch. Apoth. Ztg. 138(47), 4540-4549 (1998).
3. M. Schmidt, J. Eich, J. Kreimeyer, G. Betti: Improvement of Pharmaceutical Drug Quality: A cultivation project for Harpagophytum procumbens DC in Namibia. Drogenreport 11(19), 3-9 (1998).
4. M. Schmidt, J. Eich, J. Kreimeyer, G. Betti: Improvement of Pharmaceutical Drug Quality: A cultivation project for Harpagophytum procumbens DC in Namibia. In: Medicinal plant trade in Europe: Conservation and supply. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on the Conservation of Medicinal plants in Trade in Europe, Royal Botanical Garden, Kew, UK (June 22.-23, 1998), 140-146 (1999).
5. M. Schmidt, M. Thomsen, G. Betti: Quality of herbal raw material: a challenge. Curr. Sci. 88(3): 336 (2005).
6. M. Schmidt, M. Thomsen, G. Betti: WHO releases “Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices” of Herbs. HerbalGram 65: 22-24 (2005).
7. M. Schmidt, G. Betti: Betrachtungen zum Thema Nahrungsergänzung: Sicherheit und Qualität. Lebensmittel und Recht 10(4): 109-115 (2006).
8. G. Betti, M. Schmidt: Valorisation of Saffron. In: A. Koocheki, M. Nassiri, R. Ghorbanim R. (Eds.): Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Saffron Biology and Technology. Acta Horticulturae No. 739. International Society for Horticultural Science, Gent (Belgium) (2007).
9. M. Schmidt, G. Betti, A. Hensel.: Saffron in phytotherapy: Pharmacology and clinical uses. Wiener Med. Wschr. 157(13): 315-319 (2007).

Poster presentations

1. M. Schmidt, J. Eich, J. Kreimeyer, G. Betti: Improvement of Pharmaceutical Drug Quality: A Cultivation Project of Harpagophytum procumbens DC in Namibia. First International Symposium on the Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Trade in Europe, Kew (London, UK), June 22-24, 1998.
2. M. Schmidt, J. Eich, J. Kreimeyer, G. Betti: Improvement of Pharmaceutical Drug Quality: A Cultivation Project of Harpagophytum procumbens DC in Namibia. 65. International Annual meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research, Vienna (Austria), August 31 – September 4, 1998.
3. G. Betti, M. Schmidt: A quality management program for Piper methysticum Forst. f. Annual meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research, Erlangen, Septembre 3, 2001.
4. M. Schmidt, M. Thomsen, G. Betti, H. Casabianca, R. Omidbaigi: Ferula gummosa: Phytochemical variability in Iran. Medicine in the 21st Century. Triconference & Bioforum, Shanghai, July 24-27, 2004.
5. M. Thomsen, M. Schmidt, G. Betti, H. Casabianca, R. Omidbaigi: Ferula gummosa: Phytochemical variability in Iran. International Congress on Natural Products Research (ICNPR), Phoenix (Arizona, USA), August 1-4, 2004.
6. M. Schmidt, M. Thomsen, G. Betti: The new WHO guidelines and EC directives on traceability of herbal raw material: a chance for the amelioration of quality and safety of medicinal plant raw material. International Congress on Natural Products Research (ICNPR), Phoenix (Arizona, USA), August 1-4, 2004.
7. M. Azizi, G. Betti, M. Schmidt: Study of the phytochemical variability of the essential oil of Hypericum perforatum in relation to vegetative stage. 53rd Annual Congress of the society of Medicinal Plant Research, Florence (Italy), August 21-24, 2005.
8. M. Schmidt, G. Betti: Herbal medicine and herbal nutritional supplements: Quality issues and consumer safety. 25èmes Journées Internationales Huiles Essentielles et Extraits, Digne-les-Bains (France), September 14-15, 2006.
9. G. Betti, M. Schmidt: Hoodia gordonii – 100% natural appetite suppressant. Middle East Natural Products Expo, Dubai (UAE), December 10-12, 2006.
10. G. Betti, M. Schmidt: Saffron (Crocus sativus) and its extracts: Saffron’Extr^®. Middle East Natural Products Expo, Dubai (UAE), December 10-12, 2006.