Paul Stamets Short Biography
Paul Stamets is founder and president of Fungi
Perfecti, a mushroom wholesale and retail sales business. Paul has written six mushroom-related books. Several
are used
as textbooks around the world by the gourmet and medicinal mushroom
industries. He is the author of many scholarly papers in peer-reviewed
journals (The International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms; Evidence
Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM, Oxford University
Press); Herbalgram, and others) He has written more than twenty
patents.
Paul started a mushroom wholesale and retail sales business, Fungi
Perfecti, LLC, in 1980. The business has four laboratories,
10,000 sq. ft. of clean rooms, and is equipped with 20+ laminar flow
benches for doing in vitro propagation work. Paul has received several
environmental awards. He is an advisor to the Program of Integrative
Medicine at the University of Arizona Medical School, Tucson; on the
Editorial Board of The International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, and
was appointed to the G.A.P./G.M.P. Board of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia. Dr.
Andrew Weil recommends his products. Stamets is the supplier and
co-investigator of the first two NIH funded clinical studies using
medicinal mushrooms in the United States. His strain collection is
extensive and unique, with many of the strains coming from old growth
forests. He is involved in several other research trials ongoing and
pending.
He received the 1998 "Bioneers Award" from The Collective
Heritage Institute, and the 1999 "Founder of a New Northwest
Award" from the Pacific Rim Association of Resource Conservation
and Development Councils. In 2008, Paul received the National Geographic
Adventure Magazine's Green-O-vator and the Argosy Foundation's E-chievement
Awards.
Paul resides in Washington state and is married to C. Dusty Yao, a
plant fanatic, who shares a passion for fungi, a love of the Old Growth
forests, and the belief that people properly armed with fungi can help
save the planet.
An expanded biography with more photos of Paul Stamets
is here.
