Planta Med 2013; 79 - WelcomeLetter
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1336583

Welcome Letter

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

April 15, 2013

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 “12th International Conference on the Science of Botanicals.” This conference is supported in part by a cooperative agreement between the NCNPR and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) at the US 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 American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP); the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Products Research (GA); the Korean Society of Pharmacognosy; the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST); the St Petersburg Institute of Pharmacy; the Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD) and the International Council on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Human Welfare (ICMAP).

We are excited to present a program featuring a roster of internationally recognized experts and researchers in the field of botanicals. 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 program. 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