IBSD hosts traditional healers' business meet
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, March 20 2024:
Imphal-headquartered Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD) organised a traditional healers' business meet at Upper Shillong for promoting traditional healthcare practices of North-Eastern region including Manipur.
During the event, IBSD director Prof Pulok Kumar Mukherjee highlighted the initiatives of IBSD for documentation, validation and evaluation of traditional healthcare practices of Manipur and Meghalaya.
He also mentioned that IBSD is working on the ethno pharmacological perspectives of medicinal plants including their cultivation, chemical profiling, promotion, value addition and promotion of start-ups in NER.
The programme was attended by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), New Delhi NER-BPMC head Dr Suraksha S Diwan and Himalaya Wellness Company, Bengaluru Research & Development director Dr UV Babu, Himalaya Wellness chief R&D officer Jean Francois Porracchia.