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for a summary report of the meeting.
IOCD/ISDNP Symposium ‘Natural Products: Unlimited Resources for the Development
of Drugs, Cosmetics and Food.’, Kasane, Botswana, 24 - 29 February 2008.
The first joint symposium between the International Organization for Chemical Sciences in Development (IOCD)
and the International Society for the Development of Natural Products (ISDNP) convened in Kasane, Botswana,
in Africa during 24 - 29 February 2008, addressing the theme ‘Natural Products: Unlimited Resources
for the Development of Drugs, Cosmetics and Food’.
This symposium brought together a total of 135 scientists from nearly 40 countries, both in Africa and elsewhere
in the world, working on African medicinal and other useful plants (food, cosmetics and medicine) and also
phytochemists working on malaria, HIV-AIDS, and other diseases relevant to Africa. Nineteen plenary lectures
were given by world reknown specialists dealing with selected topics for African plants, as well as with the
treatment of diseases found in Africa. Other experts also discussed these same topics in 42 short lectures
and 52 poster presentations. The pre-symposium workshop provided young scientist from developing countries
hands-on experience with hyphenated techniques GC-MS and HPLC-NMR.
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for a summary report of the meeting.
IOCD International Symposium on ‘Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacology and Clinical Studies of Asian
Plants’, Surabaya, Indonesia, 9-11 April 2007. This symposium brought together scientists from around the world
in academia, public health organizations, and industry. Twelve plenary lectures and special sessions dealt with the current
state and future trends in Asian traditional medicine, and implications for the development of new therapeutics.
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for the conference website, and here for a summary
report of the meeting. The collection of abstracts with an author index can be found
here (file size: 1.3 Mb).
Symposium on Chemistry, Biological and Pharmacological Properties of Medicinal Plants in the Americas.
Held in 2004 in Sao Pedro, Brazil, and cosponsored by IOCD and the Programa Iberoameicano para la Ciencia y Tecnología
para el Desarrollo (CYTED).
Workshop on Chemistry and Pharmacology of Plants Used in African Traditional Medicine.
Held in 2002 in Bamako, Mali.
Symposium on Chemistry and Pharmacology of Asian Plants and Validation of Phytopharmaceuticals.
Held as a Satellite Meeting to the Princess Chulabhorn Science Congress in 2000 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Symposium on Chemistry, Biological, and Pharmacological Properties of African Medicinal Plants.
Held in 1999 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Symposium on Chemistry, Biological, and Pharmacological Properties of Medicinal Plants from the Americas.
Held in 1997 in Panama, and co-sponsored by IOCD and CYTED.
Symposium on Chemistry, Biological, and Pharmacological Properties African Medicinal Plants.
Held in 1996 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Prior to the conference, IOCD organized a workshop on bioactivity-guided isolation
at laboratories of the University of Zimbabwe. A book was published following the conference: The book that Hostettmann published
following the international IOCD symposium on medicinal plants at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in February 1996 is: Chemistry,
Biological and Pharmacological Properties of African Medicinal Plants (K. Hostettmann, F. Chinyanganya, M. Maillard and
J. -L. Wolfender, Eds.), 1996, University of Zimbabwe Publications, Harare, Zimbabwe.
It is available in Africa at the price of US$15.00 and in the USA at the price of US$50.00 (plus US$4.00 shipping charges).
Checks should be made out to IOCD and sent to
IOCD
C/O Dr. Alain Krief
Department of Chemistry, University of Namur
61, rue de Bruxelles
B-5000 NAMUR, Belgium
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