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Current Project
Number: 2007-051-1-300
Title: International Center for Natural Product Research
- Workshop for finalizing the project proposal document for setting
up of ICNPR
Task Group
Chairman: M.
Mosihuzzaman
Members: Liaquat Ali,
Gerard Bodeker, M
Iqbal Choudhury, Vijaya Kumar, Nordin Hj Lajis, Barry Noller,
and Leiv Sydnes
Remark: Follow up to earlier
projects, 2003-046-1-300
and 2005-034-1-300
Objective:
The main objectives are:
a) Finalise a Project Proposal in an international
format, for the establishment of "International Center for
Natural Product Research (ICNPR)" with the primary goal of
working on Safety, Efficacy, Standardization and Documentation of
Herbal Medicine.
b) Prepare Fund Applications for different public
and private donor agencies.
Description:
Considering the importance of herbal medicine around the world and
more so in the developing countries, the Task Group Chair initiated
discussions among scientists about establishing a for Research Center
targeting herbal medicine since 2003. IUPAC supported the idea through
a project (#2003-046-1-300)
entitled "Workshop for formulation of plans for the establishment
of a Center of Natural Product Research (CNPR)". A successful
workshop with fifty five scientists, took place in New Delhi in
Jan 2004 just before the IUPAC Biodiversity and Natural Products
Conference. The project completion report and follow up on that
were discussed in various forums including those of IUPAC, specially
with the Organic and Biomolecular Division in Beijing in August
2005. As a result of the discussions, a successive project (#2005-034-1-300)
was granted by IUPAC for the "Development of methodologies
and protocols for documentation, evaluation of safety & efficacy
and standardization of herbal medicine".
With co-sponsored by the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences,
a workshop and Task Group meeting was held in Dhaka during 06-09
June 2006 (Minutes of the Task Group Meeting attached). During the
next one year the Task Group has prepared Protocols on Safety, Efficacy,
Standardization and Documentation of Herbal Medicine. The draft
protocols were presented by the Task Group Chair at the Div III
and Sub-Committee meetings in Torino, Italy in August 2007. The
hard copy of the Protocols were circulated among the members present
and has been electronically communicated to all concerned with the
project. With incorporation of suggestions, comments and corrections
from many scientists, the Protocols are in a final stage for printing.
A Monograph with further details on the topics are also being compiled
and will be printed by February 2008.
At the sideline of the 12th Asian Chemical Congress
in Kuala Lumpur in late August 2007, the Task Group Chair and three
other core members of the Task Group met and considered some action
plan as the follow up of preparation of the Protocols for working
on Herbal Medicine. It was agreed in the meeting that a Project
Proposal for setting up ICNPR (International Center for Natural
Product Research) will be prepared, mostly by electronic communication
among the Core Task Group members during the next few months. The
Core Task Group will then meet in March 2008 to finalise the Project
document and write covering letters to different prospective public
and private donor agencies.
Progress:
May 2008: A workshop was held on 16-17 March 2008 in Dhaka,
Bangladesh; read chair's report [pdf
file - 37KB]
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