Last Updated: October 7, 2008
NEWS AND RELEVANT MEETINGS 
- ICBG IN THE NEWS
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Vietnam likely to produce Tamiflu from anise next year
March 21, 2006
Peoples Daily Online -
Fogarty Announces Awards for Biodiversity-based Drug Discovery Research
January 3, 2006
National Institutes of Health Press Release -
New, non-radioactive screen for antimalarial compounds
February 16, 2004
EurekAlert Press Release -
U researchers search Papua New Guinea for medicinal drugs
February 4, 2004
The Daily Utah Chronicle -
The Curtain Falls.
December 13, 2001
Nature - News Archive ...
- OTHER NEWS
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Merck Cuts Sales Jobs And Halts Natural Products Research
May 7, 2008
Chemical & Engineering News -
New target for anti-malaria drugs
December 15, 2007
BBC News
Reference: Subcellular discharge of a serine protease mediates release of invasive malaria parasites from host erythrocytes. (Link)
Yeoh, S. et al. (2007). Cell. 131(6):1072-83. -
Bush creates world’s biggest ocean preserve
June 15, 2006
MSNBC.com -
WTO Battle Looms Over Patents
June 6, 2006
Financial Times London - News Archive ...
- RELEVANT MEETINGS 2008
- International Conference on Agrochemicals Protecting Crop, Health
and Natural Environment (Society of Pesticide Science India)
January 8-11, 2008
New Delhi, India
Web: http://www.apchne2008.com/ - Gordon Research Conference on Marine Natural Products
Feb 24-29, 2008
Ventura, California
Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=marinenat - Gordon Research Conference on New Antibacterial Discovery and Development
March 9-14, 2008
Il Ciocco, Lucca (Barga), Italy
Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=antibact - 235th - ACS National Meeting & Exposition
April 6-10, 2008
New Orleans, Louisiana
Web: http://acswebcontent.acs.org/home.html - 7th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals
& American Society of Pharmacognosy 4th Interim Meeting
(co-sponsored by GA, CSIR-India, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, China)
April 12-16, 2008
Oxford Conference Center, Oxford, Mississippi
Web: http://www.pharmacy.olemiss.edu/ncnpr/index.html - 30th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
May 4 - 7, 2008
Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel, New Orleans, LA
Web: http://www.simhq.org/meetings/meetings.aspx - Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies Spring Symposium: To Regulate or Not to Regulate? The Approach for Herbal Medicines
May 21, 2008
UMBI Shady Grove Campus, Rockville, MD
Web: http://umbi.org/seminars-events/images/aces_e-invite.pdf - Society for Economic Botany - Annual Meeting
June 1-5, 2008
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Web: http://www.econbot.org/_welcome_/to_seb.php - NATURAL PRODUCTS DISCOVERY & PRODUCTION II: Celebrating Successes of Traditional and Novel Cultures
June 22-26, 2008
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Web: http://www.engconfintl.org/8an.html - FitoMed 2008: Natural Products and Functional Foods
June 25-27, 2008
Grand Hotel Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Web: http://www.fitomed2008.com/default_en.htm - Phytochemical Society of North America 2008 Annual Meeting: Phytochemistry and Biology/Human Health
June 25-29, 2008
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Web: http://www.psna.wsu.edu/ - American Society of Plant Biologists - Plant Biology 2008
June 27-July 2, 2008
Mérida, Mexico
Web: http://www.aspb.org/meetings/ - IUPAC International Conference on Biodiversity and Natural Products
(ICOB-6 and ISCNP-26)
July 13-18, 2008
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
Web: http://www.iupac-icbnp2008.com - Gordon Research Conference on Natural Products
July 20-25, 2008
Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire
Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=natprod - 7th Joint Meeting of the Association Francophone pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche en Pharmacognosie (AFERP), The American Society of Pharmacognosy ASP), the Society for Medicinal Plant Research - Gesellschaft für Arzneipflanzenforschung e.V. (GA), and the Phytochemical Society of Europe
August 3-8, 2008
Athens, Greece (International meeting with AFERP, GA, and PSE)
Web: http://www.phcog.org/AnnualMtg/Athens.html
- Society for Industrial Microbiology Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2008
August 10-13, 2008
San Diego, California
Web: http://www.simhq.org/meetings/meetings.aspx - New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products 2008 International Training Program on Natural Products: Botanicals, Nutraceuticals and Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: From Sourcing and Production to Processing and Product Development, And from Quality Control to Health Applications
August 11-15, 2008
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Web: http://www.aesop.rutgers.edu/~newuseag/itp2008.htm - 236th - ACS National Meeting & Exposition
August 17-21, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Web: http://acswebcontent.acs.org/home.html - 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology
August 17-22, 2008
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Web: http://www.chemecol.org/meetings/meetings.htm - 8th International Conference on Vitamins - Nutrition and Diagnostics
September 9-11, 2008
Tomas Bata University, Zlin, Czech Republic
Web: http://www.vitamins.cz - 20th Symposium of Brazilian Medicinal Plants, 10th International Congress of Etnopharmacology, 2nd Meeting of Specialists in Herbal Medicine in the Treatment of Addictions
September, 16-19, 2008
São Paulo, Brazil
Web: http://www.plantasmedicinais.unifesp.br - 2nd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress
September 16-20, 2008
Lingotto Conference Center, Torino, Italy
Web: http://www.euchems-torino2008.it/site/home.asp - 2008 Shanghai International Conference on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicine
October 10-12, 2008
Pei-gen Xiao: Institute for Medicinal Plant Research, China
Web: http://www.phcog.org/ShanghaiTCM2008First_Circular.pdf - Symposium on Medicinal Plants, Their Cultivation and Aspects of Use
October 15-16, 2008
Ash-Shoubak University College/Al-Balqa' Applied University, Ash-Shoubak, Jordan
Email: Dr. Mazen Ateyyat atteyyat@bau.edu.jo - 7th International Phytochemical Conference - Phytochemicals: Health Promotion and Therapeutic Potential
October 20-21, 2008
Buena Park, California
Web: http://www.phytochemicalconference.com - International Congress on Traditional and Complementary Medicine (ICTCM)
October 28-31, 2008
Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Web: http://www.ictcm.ir - 1st Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Marine Natual Products
October 31 - Novmeber 5, 2008
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Web: http://www.emcmnp.org - 3rd CMDD Symposium on Marine Natural Products and Drug Discovery
November 5-7, 2008
Ritz-Carlton Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Web: http://www.cmdds.or.kr - 4th World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (WOCMAP IV): Using Plants to Benefit People
November 9-14, 2008
Cape Town, South Africa
Web: http://www.underutilized-species.org/record_details.asp?id=935
- RELEVANT MEETINGS 2009
- International Conference on Herbal Medicine - Evaluation of Quality, Efficacy and Safety
February 26-28, 2009
Bangalore, India
Web: http://http://www.herbalconference2009.com
- 237th - ACS National Meeting & Exposition
March 22-26, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah
Web: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=2040&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1
- The American Society of Pharmacognosy
June 27-July 2, 2009
Honolulu, Hawaii (50th Anniversary Meeting)
Web: http://www.phcog.org/AnnualMtg/Honolulu.html
- 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology
July, 2009
Neuchatel, Switzerland
Web: http://www.chemecol.org/meetings/meetings.htm
- American Society of Plant Biology - Plant Biology 2009
July 18-22, 2009
Honolulu, Hawaii
Web: http://www.aspb.org/meetings/
- 238th - ACS National Meeting & Exposition
August 16-20, 2009
Washington, DC
Web: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=2053&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1
