About Dr Myko San – Health from Mushrooms
DR MYKO SAN – HEALTH FROM MUSHROOMS was founded on September 12, 1990 by Dr Ivan Jakopović and Marija Jakopović. We produce and sell dietary supplements and food made from mushrooms. Myko San is a biotechnological company based in Zagreb, Croatia, European Union.
There are three essential components to the DR MYKO SAN approach for preserving human health:
First, the use of mushrooms as natural raw materials, either wild or cultivated. This ensures that our products contain no toxic or harmful substances, and therefore no unpleasant side effects, assuming the user is not allergic to mushrooms.
Second, the application of thousands of years of experience from traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine as well as Korean and other Far Eastern traditions, where mushrooms have played a major role and have been tested in large populations over long periods of time.
Third, the modern use of mushrooms must also be based on contemporary scientific research. The traditional knowledge has been systematically and empirically studied worldwide since 1950s using strict scientific methodologies and criteria from chemistry, pharmacology, biological, and medical sciences. The results have been remarkable, and the use of mushroom-based products is growing globally.
The founder of the company is Dr. Ivan Jakopović (contact Myko San and Ivan Jakopović), who has working with mushrooms since 1980, researching medicinal mushrooms since 1983, and applying them practically since 1989. He is a member of the International Society for Mushroom Science and the New York Academy of Sciences, serves on the editorial board of the scientific journal International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms (New York), and is the member of the International Scientific Committee of the regular global The International Medicinal Mushroom Conferences (IMMC).
In 2011, he was the president of the organizing committee for the 6th International Medicinal Mushroom Conference, which was held in Zagreb. For his contribution to science, he was included in the 2013 edition of Marquis’s Who is Who in the World (USA), and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (Cambridge, UK).
He is the author of 21 published scientific articles on medicinal mushrooms, in collaboration with various renowned scientific institutions.
Dr. Boris Jakopović, Director of Research and Development, was born in 1980 in Zagreb, Croatia. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. He earned his PhD in 2021 with the dissertation “Antitumor Mechanisms of Biologically Active Compounds from Medicinal Mushrooms on a Colorectal Cancer Model” at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, University of Rijeka.
He is the author of around fifteen original scientific papers published in leading international scientific journals and has delivered presentations at international scientific conferences. He also authored a book chapter on proteomic research into the medicinal properties of mushrooms in “Mushrooms with Therapeutic Potentials: Recent Advances in Research and Development”, published in 2023 by Springer Nature, one of the world’s leading scientific publishers. His areas of interest include cancer biology and therapy, proteomics, and systems biology. Since January 2022, he has been a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms (Begell House Publishing Company, USA) and a member of the International Scientific Committee for the global International Medicinal Mushroom Conferences (IMMC). He is also a member of the Croatian Society for Cancer Research (HDIR)
