Planta Med 2016; 82 - WL
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1579776

Welcome Letter

LA Walker 1, IA Khan 2
  • 1Director, National Center for Natural Products Research
  • 2Director of FDA Center of Excellence, National Center for Natural Products Research

April 11th, 2016

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, and the University of Mississippi, we would like to welcome you to the “Joint Meeting of 16th Annual International Conference on the Science of Botanicals (ICSB) with 5th Interim American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP).” The Conference will focus on exploring the topic of synergy between natural products and human health. Further information regarding this conference can also be found at www.oxfordICSB.org. This conference is supported by a cooperative agreement between the NCNPR and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is co-sponsored by the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica/CAS, China; the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR – India); the Ministry of Indigenous Medicine; Sri Lanka; the American Society of Pharmacognosy; the Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA); the Korean Society of Pharmacognosy; The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST); the Japan Society of Pharmacognosy (JSP); as well as some key industry groups.

We are excited to present a program featuring a roster of internationally recognized experts and researchers in the field of botanicals and pharmacognosy. We wish to extend our thanks to our speakers for their willingness to participate in and contribute to the success of this meeting.

We invite you to visit the website of the National Center for Natural Products Research at http://www.pharmacy.olemiss.edu/ncnpr to learn more about our research programs. Oxford and the Ole Miss campus are a beautiful setting, and we hope you will get to explore them, especially if this is your first time to visit here. If there is anything we can do to make your visit more enjoyable, please contact us.

Sincerely,

Larry A. Walker, Ph.D.

Director

National Center for Natural Products Research

Ikhlas A. Khan, Ph.D.

Director of FDA Center of Excellence

National Center for Natural Products Research