CSIR-IIIM to organise an International Conference on Plant-Based Medicines from Feb 16

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JAMMU: CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine would be organizing “International Conference on Traditional Medicine and Phytopharmaceuticals” and the “11th International Congress of Society of Ethnopharmacology (SFEC2024), from 16th to 18th February, 2024, under the theme “Ethnopharmacology in Development of Phytopharmaceutical Drugs”, in collaboration with the Society of Ethnopharmacology (SFE), Kolkata, India.
The event will likely be inaugurated by Chief Guest, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space and Vice President CSIR. The inaugural session, to be held from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm on 16th February, 2024 and will likely be graced with the presence of Vd. Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ministry of AYUSH, GoI, Shekhar Dutt, Former Governor Chhattisgarh & Advisor, SFE, Dr. CP Thakur, Chairman, Former Governor Chhattisgarh, and Advisor SFE and Dr. Pulok K. Mukherjee, Chairman, Scientific Services, SFEC-2024. Dr. Zabeer Ahmed, Director, CSIR-IIIM informed that the Conference will have more than 20 scientific sessions, including and IConnect program: Business Meet, on the theme “Development of Phytopharmaceutical Drugs: Tradition to Translational”, “Young Ethnopharmacologist Award Function”, “American Chemical Society (ACS) Best Oral Presentation Award Session”, “SFE Best Poster Presentation Session”, Panel Discussion on “Opportunities and Challenges in Cannabis Research” and Traditional Healers Meet. Other scientific sessions would include talks on the themes “Phytopharmaceuticals: Drug Development from Traditional Medicine”, “Evidence-Based Validation of Traditional Medicine”, “Traditional Ethnopharmacology Inspired Drug Discovery and Development”, “Development of Botanical/Herbal Drugs: Global Perspective”, “Global Positioning of AYUSH Products: Standardization and Validation”, “Natural Products Inspired Modern Drug Discovery”, “Network/Reverse Pharmacology in Herbal Drug Discovery”, “New Approaches for Phytopharmaceutical Drugs Development”, “Ethnomedicine: an Invaluable Source of Novel Drug”, “Regulatory Aspects of Phytopharmaceutical Drugs (US FDA/EMA)”, “Opportunities and Challenges in Cannabis Research”, “Bioprospecting Plants and Microbes for Development of Therapeutics”, “New Approaches in Natural Product Drug Discovery”, etc.More than 100 distinguished invited speakers, from nearly 20 different countries, including the United States of America, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Ghana and India would be delivering their talks. Nearly 700 participants from all over India have registered for this mega event. The international conference will be organized under the overall supervision of Dr. Zabeer Ahmed, Director CSIR-IIIM and the organizing Chairman for this International Conference with assistance from Dr. Prasson K. Gupta and Dr. Naveed Qazi as organizing secretaries for the conference.
Other members of the functional committee for this event are: Dr. Pulok K. Mukherjee, Chairman, Scientific Services SFEC-2024, Dr. Subhash C Mandal, Secretary SFE, Birendra Kumar Sarkar, President SFE, Dr. CK Katiyar, Vice President SFE, Indraneel Das, Vice President, SFE, Dr. Amit Kar, Treasurer SFE, Dr. Vikash Babu, Treasurer.