Welcome to the official web site of the Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals. Here you will find news and updates for each annual conference, links and information about registration, local accomodations and travel, submissions guidelines for presenters and (coming soon) a searchable catalog of previous conferences. Please direct any and all questions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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 (ASP); the Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA); and the Korean Society of Pharmacognosy. 

The function of the ICSB is to review, discuss, and explore the confluence of current research topics in natural product chemistry, pharmacognosy and botanicals. Topic areas will include authentication of botanical identity, cultivation, collection, post-harvest practices for producing quality plant materials, as well as an exploration of chemical and toxicological methods regarding botanical quality/safety assessments. 

Conference News:

12th ICSB Presentations Available

The info for the 12th Annual ICSB has been moved to our Past Conferences page, and all the currently available presentations can be downloaded in PDF format from the 12th Agenda page. We will be adding more presentations to that page as we recieve permission from the authors to publish them.

Thanks from the ICSB Team

To all 2013 ICSB Participants,

We would like extend our most gracious thanks to you for attending the 12th annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals. It is your knowledge, energy, enthusiasm and passion for science that continues to sustain our conference and make it such a successful and enjoyable event for all of us. We hope you had a wonderful and above all interesting time with us, and we hope to see you all again next year. The 13th ICSB will be held in April 2014, with the joint ICSB/ASP meeting following from August 2nd – 6th, 2014. If you have any questions or suggestions for next year’s conference, don’t hesitate to contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , and remember to watch our this site for news.  You can also “Like” us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/OxfordICSB for news and updates, and please share with us any photos you would like.

Thank you, one and all, for your continued participation and support.