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Norman R. Farnsworth PhD,
Renowned Medicinal Plant Researcher

Renowned pharmacognosist and internationally-respected medicinal plant research expert, Norman R. Farnsworth, PhD, died on September 10 at a Chicago hospital. He was 81 and had been in declining health for months, suffering from long-term congestive heart failure and type 2 diabetes.
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The ICSB organizing committee will be putting together a commemorative session honoring Norman Farnsworth and his contributions to the field of natural products and botanicals. It is the intent of this session to capture how Norman's research, life's work and collegial interactions have impacted all of us.

The National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR) within the School of Pharmacy at The University of Mississippi is pleased to announce another international conference on important botanical quality and safety issues.
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 this conference 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.
Each session will open with a plenary speaker outlining the current approaches, limitations, and research needs of the topic area. Speakers are leading researchers from industry, academia, nonprofit institutions, trade associations, and government. The tremendous opportunity for international exchange among these representatives, participants, and students on important and timely scientific botanical issues is a hallmark of this event.
Topics Include:

Cultivation, Collection and Post Harvest Practices to Assure Production of Quality Raw Botanical Materials
Authentication, Identification and Purity Assessments of Botanical Raw Materials, Ingredients, and Products
General and Specific Approaches Toward Establishing the Safety, Efficacy, and Quality of Botanicals with Modern Technologies
International Regulatory Approaches for Safety Assessments and Adverse Event Reporting (AER) for Botanical Products

Invited Speakers:

Yoshinori Asakawa, Tokushima Bunri University, Japan	Ren Lai, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ninh Khac Ban, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST)	Dongho Lee, Korea University, Korea
Kamlesh Kumar Bhutani, NIPER, India	Stephen Long, NIST
Wolfgang Blaschek, Pharm. Institut, Germany	Dennis Lubahn, University of Missouri
Mark Blumenthal, Amerian Botanical Council	Xiao-dong Luo, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lars Bohlin, Biomedical Centre, Sweden	Robin Marles, Health Canada
Richard Van Breemen, University of Illinois Chicago	William Martin, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA
Paula N. Brown, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada	James Miller, New York Botanical Garden
Shao-qing Cai, Peking University Health Science Center, China	Karen Phinney, NIST
William Cefalu, Pennington Biomedical Research Center & LSUHSC School of Medicine	Angela Pope, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA
Rui Chen, Waters Corporation	Ghulam-E-Nabi Qazi, Jamia Hamdard, India
Floyd "Ski" Chilton, Wake Forest Center	Zhong-zhi Qian, China Pharmacopoeia Commision
Iqbal Choudhary, International Center for Chemical & Biological Sciences, Pakistan	Carl Reynolds, Food & Drug Administration
Gary Coody, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA	Jian-gong Shi, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica
Jun-gui Dai, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Alexander N. Shikov, St. Petersburg Institute of Pharmacy, Russia
Steven Dentali, American Herbal Products Association	G.N. Singh, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, India
Thomas Efferth, University of Mainz, Germany	Aniko Solyom, Gaas Corporation, Tuscon Arizona
FTC Representative, Federal Trade Commission	Youngbae Suh, Seoul National University, Korea
Dan Fabricant, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA	Hildebert Wagner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
James Griffiths, US Pharmacopeia	Wei Wang, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine
De-an Guo, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica	Zhi-min Wang, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica
Yogendra Kumar Gupta, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India	Zheng-Tao Wang, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Mary Hardy, University of California Los Angeles	Michael Wierer, European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare
Bill Helferich, University of Illinois	Brad Williams, Food & Drug Administration
Corey Hilmas, Food & Drug Administration	Xiu-wei Yang, Peking University Health Science Center
Loren Isrealsen, United Natural Products Alliance	Yang Ye, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Douglas Kinghorn, Ohio State University	Jian-min Yue, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Rick Kingston, SafetyCall International	Wei-dong Zhang, Second Military University, China
Ling-dong Kong, Nanjing University, China	Zong-mei Zou, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica
Ling-yi Kong, China Pharmaceutical University, China

The FINAL abstract submission deadline for the 2012 ICSB has passed.
Many thanks to all who submitted abstracts for consideration.

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