RK Ranjan inaugurates international symposium at IBSD
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, December 17 2020: A 3-day international symposium on combating COVID-19 with ethnopharmacology and traditional food and medicine and 7th convention of Society of Ethnopharmacology, India organised by the Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD) and International Society for Ethnopharmacology, was kicked off today as virtual event.

The virtual event was inaugurated by Lok Sabha MP Dr RK Ranjan and was attended by Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha.

Secretary, Ministry of AYUSH; Dr Thirumalachari Ramasami, former Secretary, Department of Science and Technology; Shekhar Dutt, former Governor of Chandigarh; Dr Bhushan Patwardhan, Vice-Chairman UGC; Dr JLN Sastry, CEO of National Medicinal Plant Board; Dr Roy Upton, president of American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, USA and Dr Ashino A Mao, Director of Botanical Survey of India amongst others, said a statement released by IBSD.

Speaking at the inaugural function, RK Ranjan appreciated the works taken up by IBSD for Phyto-pharmaceutical work on the medicinal plants of North East India having antiviral properties used by the traditional healers for scientific intervention and characterisation of bioactive compounds for future drug development and expressed confidence that the symposium will witness rich deliberation and concrete outputs, added the statement.

Prof Pulok Kumar Mukherjee, Director of Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development , said the symposium will be highlighting on several crucial and contemporary issues for therapeutic evaluation including immunomodulatory and anti-infective potential to develop safe and efficacious products from medicinal plants together with scientific validation and quality evaluation.

There were four sessions of Plenary lectures with many eminent scientists from different institutes and organisations of the country and abroad and the symposium will continue till December 19, added the statement.

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