SYMPOSIUM

In the Service of Human Health:
Continuing Search for New Plant-Based Therapies

Symposium Goals:
The primary goal of this symposium is to promote scientific multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas that will promote understanding and cooperation in the common effort in the search for new plant-based therapies

Sponsored by the Society for Economic Botany, the Chicago Botanic Garden, The Field Museum, and the University of Illinois at Chicago

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Presentations by expert speakers of world renown.

- Directors of Botanicals Centers funded by NCCAM (NIH). Their research focus on dietary supplements.

- Principal Investigators of the ICBG (International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups) Program funded by the Fogarty International Center (NIH). Their research focuses on the search for new therapeutic agents from plant sources.

- This symposium will be unprecedented in that it will, for the first time, bring together scientific experts in some of NCCAM's and Fogarty's most highly respected research programs.

Morning Session

Dr. Norman R. Farnsworth, Director, Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago.
The role of ethnopharmacology in drug development. Tempest in a teapot.
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Dr. Barrie Cassileth, Chief of Integrative Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Center for the Study of Botanical Immunomodulators.
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Dr. Connie Weaver, Head, Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, 700 West State Stret, West Lafayette, Indiana.
The Purdue-UAB Botanical Research Center: The study of botanicals for age-related diseases.
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Dr. Diane Birt, Director, Botanicals Center for Research on Dietary Botanical Supplements, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Ioawa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Using diversity among species of Echinacea and Hypericum to identify metabolomic profiles of bioactivity.
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Afternoon Session

Dr. Joshua Rosenthal, Director, ICBG Program, Fogarty International Center, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.
The ICBG Program: Scope and philosophy.

Dr. Ilya Raskin, Biotech Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Botanical therapeutics and chronic diseases.
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Dr. Shugeng Cao - Dr. David Kingston, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polyrechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Biodiversity conservation and drug discovery: Can they be combined? The Suriname and Madagascar experiences.
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Dr. Todd Capson - Dr. William Gerwick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, California.
The Panama ICBG: Linking drug discovery, capacity building and biodiversity conservation.
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Dr. Louis Barrows, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salth Lake City, Utah.
Making the most of Papua New Guinea's biodiversity: Linking ethnomedicinal
pharmacological assessment in "the Land of the Unexpected".
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