Evidence-Based Validation of Herbal Medicine

Prof. Pulok Kumar Mukherjee is working as the Director, Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, under Department Biotechnology, Govt. of India, at Imphal, Manipur. He worked as the Director of the School of Natural Product Studies and Professor (On lien), Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has made several innovative and outstanding contributions in academic/research on development of Bio-economy from Bioresources particularly on traditional medicine inspired drug discovery from Indian medicinal plants, Ethno pharmacology and evidence based validation of herbs used in medicine and food to make them available from ‘Farm to Pharma’. Prof. Mukherjee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), West Bengal Academy of Sciences (FAScT), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India (FNAAS), and the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc). He has contributed over 230 publications in peer-reviewed impact journals, several patents, and books on evaluation of botanicals. His works on translational research on traditional medicine are useful bio-prospecting tools for the development of drugs from nature and ancestors. For further details please visit www.pulokmukherjee.in

1. Quality related safety issues – Evidence based validation of herbal medicine farm to pharma 2. Value Chains of Herbal Medicines - Ethnopharmacological and analytical challenges in a globalizing world 3. Pharmacopoeial Standards as the Basis of Herbal Medicine Quality Control 4. Taxonomy – tool for validation of herbal medicine 5. Validation of medicinal herbs for skin ageing 6. Pro-angiogenic potential of medicinal plants in wound healing 7. Pharmacovigilance: Tool in establishing the safety and acceptability of the natural health products - Clinical evaluation 8. Validation of antiviral potential of herbal ethomedicine 9. Harmonization of regulatory requirements in Europe to ensure quality, safety and efficacy of herbal medicinal products 10. Bioavailability of herbal medicine: approach towards improved pharmacokinetics 11. Good quality and clinical practices for the future development of herbal medicines 12. Evidence based scientific claims for traditional medicine-inspired approaches to drug discovery from Ayurveda 13. Evaluation of bioactive compounds as AChE inhibitors from medicinal plants 14. Drugs and drug leads based on natural products for treatment of malaria 15. Evaluation of Natural products against Biofilm mediated bacterial resistance 16. Clinical effects of caraway, a traditional medicine for weight loss 17. Challenges in identification of potential phytotherapies and contemporary biomedical literatures 18. Botanicals as medicinal foods and their effects against obesity 19. Application of HPLC in the analysis of herbal products 20. Ayurveda opportunities for developing safe and effective treatment choices for the future 21. Discovery and development of lead compounds from natural sources using computational approaches 22. Infrared Spectroscopic Technologies for the Quality Control of Herbal Medicines 23. Antimicrobial secondary metabolites- extraction, isolation, identification and bio assay 24. Use of herbals in cardiac diseases: priority of evidence over belief