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2023
Natural products research in the digital era: Methods for compound annotation and the present status of metabolome characterization
Location: Online
Date: May 23 and 30, June 6 2023; 5.00 p.m. – 7 p.m. (CEST)
General Information
Natural products (NPs) from plants and micro-organisms are a source of inspiration in drug discovery. They all have their own physical and chemical characteristics and different levels of concentration in extract which makes their comprehensive analysis very challenging. Isolation and complete de novo structural characterization of each compound is necessary for unambiguous identification, but this is a difficult and time-consuming task. In this context, metabolomics is playing an increasingly important role for annotating detected compounds to assess the chemical composition of extracts and dereplication of given metabolites to focus on the discovery of new NPs. Today, with the emergence of advanced liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolite profiling methods, the process of annotating compounds in extracts has been automated and simplified. In this way up to hundreds NPs can be putatively annotated in each extract. Assessing the confidence of annotation however remains a challenge in metabolomics. The proposed online workshop covers the fundamentals of data mining, metabolite profiling and compound annotation using various computational tools. The possibilities and limitations of current metabolomic workflows and computational tools will be discussed. Additionally, we will discuss the exciting possibilities that these advancements offer and show examples of how we’ve utilized them in our own research to automate annotation and efficiently target the isolation of valuable NPs.
Chairman: Dr. Emerson F. Queiroz, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Invited speakers
Prof. Jean-Luc Wolfender, University of Geneva (5 to 7 p.m., Mai 23, 2023)
Topic 1: Introduction on metabolomics and compound annotation
Dr. Louis-Félix Nothias, University of Geneva (5 to 7 p.m., Mai 30, 2023)
Topic 2: Generation of molecular networks and spectral annotation
Dr. Stavros Beteinakis, University of Athens (5 to 6 p.m., June 6, 2023)
Topic 3: A “driving” force for NMR-based biomarker annotation in natural products metabolomics: STOCSY, SHY & HetCA
You can download the program folder here.
Advances in Pharmacovigilance for Herbal Medicines
Location: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
Date: 12th – 14th April, 2023
The use of herbal and traditional medicines for health and well-being, as well as for prevention and treatment of disease, remains a popular choice globally. While herbal and traditional medicines may bring health benefits, as with other medicinal products, there are also associated risks, including a lack of clinical pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data to determine dosages, dose-response relationships and other parameters, as well as poor-quality products. Developments in regulation for herbal and traditional medicines have strengthened pharmacovigilance for these products, but there are challenges in identifying, assessing, monitoring and managing safety concerns.
Follow this link to visit the congress website.
Summer School on “Ethnopharmacological relevance: from bench to shelf, including intellectual property and bioprospecting acts“
Location: Future Africa Campus, University of Pretoria, Pretoria South Africa
Date: 15-19th May 2023
Supported by the Volkswagen Foundation we are organizing a summer school on “Ethnopharmacological relevance: from bench to shelf, including intellectual property and bioprospecting acts“.
The summer school is hosted by the University of Pretoria and the Leipzig University and aims to equip young scientists from Europe and Africa with the knowledge and know-how of steering their natural product research towards successful commercialization. The participants will have the chance of exploring areas relating to standardization, quality control and entrepreneurship.
Follow this link to visit the summer school website.
Regulation of Natural Products – a Global Challenge
Part C Day 2: “Important markets with a long lasting history in phytotherapy”
GA eSeminar, Online / March 31st, 3.00 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. (CEST)
The regulation of natural products is a global challenge, given the multitude of regulatory pathways and different approaches globally. Therefore, GA, the Society for Medicinal Plants and Natural Product research, steps in a series of lectures on Regulatory Affairs for (traditional) herbal medicinal products, herbal food supplements (so called botanicals), and substance-based medical devices, with leading experts from industry, authorities and academia worldwide as lecturers. The aim is to help in differentiating the different market niches for herbal products in the countries of this world and to reveal pros and cons of the categories.
Speakers
Regulations in China governing the sale of medicinal plants and products made with medicinal plants
Tracy Li, Chinese Food and Health Association, China
Regulation of Herbal Medicinal Products in Turkey
Prof. Funda Nuray Yalcin, Turkey
Regulation of Herbal Medicinal Products in Brazil
Dr. Ana Cecíla Carvalho, Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA), Brazil
Registration
This Seminar is offered free of charge.
The seminar is financed exclusively by our membership fees. Become a GA member and help us to offer further free eSeminars.
You can download the flyer here.
Brazilian biodiversity as a source of new medicines: Private sector perspective
GA eSeminar, Online / February 10th, 03:00 p.m. – 05:30 p-m. (CET)
Speakers
- Dr. Cristina Dislich Ropke, Director of the R&D department of the group Centroflora, Botucatu, Brazil
Brazilian biodiversity a treasure to be discovered: the Brazilian Molecular Powerhouse (MPH) initiative. - Prof Dr João Batista Calixto, Director of the CIENP, Florianopolis, Brazil
Recent advances by the Center for Innovation and Pre-Clinical Studies in the development of pre-clinical studies with standardized extracts from Brazilian medicinal plants aimed at developing new herbal medicines with scientific proof of efficacy and safety. - Dr Carlos Victor, Senior R&D Manager of the Ache laboratories, Guarulhos São Paulo, Brazil
BIOPROSPERA®: A Systematic and Exclusive Platform to Discover and Develop Innovative Medicines from the Brazilian Biodiversity
You can download the flyer here.
2022
Regulation of Natural Products – a Global Challenge
Part C
Scientific eSeminar
Online | December 2nd, 2022, 3.00 PM – 5.30 PM (CET)
The regulation of natural products is a global challenge, given the multitude of regulatory pathways and different approaches globally. Therefore, GA, the Society for Medicinal Plants and Natural Product research, steps in a series of lectures on Regulatory Affairs for (traditional) herbal medicinal products, herbal food supplements (so called botanicals), and substance-based medical devices, with leading experts from industry, authorities and academia worldwide as lecturers. The aim is to help in differentiating the different market niches for herbal products in the countries of this world and to reveal pros and cons of the categories. Part A of the eSeminar, started in autumn 2021, gave an overview of the regulation of mainly supply and quality of the products from different regulatory pathways.
Part B of the eSeminar series in spring 2022, with four issues, gave insights to the regulation of the different types of natural products in different regions worldwide, again presented by renowned experts in the field.
Now Part C is starting on 2nd December with a kick-off on Regulatory Concepts in the EU, Switzerland and an alternative pathway through substance-based medical devices.
Work Priorities of the HMPC in 2023
Dr. Emiel van Galen,
College ter Beoordeling van Geneesmiddelen (The Netherlands)
Chairman Herbal Medicinal Products Committee (HMPC, EMA)
Phytotherapeutic Products in Switzerland
Dr. Martin Ziak, Swissmedic, Bern (Switzerland)
Medical Device Regulation (2017/745/EC) – current status of implementation
Dr. Heike Wollersen, Bundesverband der Arzneimittelhersteller, Bonn (Germany)
You can download the program here.
Yellow Gentian
PHYTOCHEMICAL, PHARMACOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Scientific eSymposium
Online | November 24th 2022, 09:00 – 16:00 h
Organized by
Herbal Medicinal Products Platform Austria (HMPPA)
Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
For further information and a free registration click here.
eSymposium: Novel insights into Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Toxicity and Implications for Risk Assessment
The Symposium will take place via Zoom on September 28-29 2022.
September 28, 2022: 1.15 PM – 5.45 PM (CEST)
September 29, 2022: 10.30 AM – 4.00 PM (CEST)
You can download the program here.
70th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the
Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
August 28 – 31, 2022
Thessaloniki, Greece
For more information visit the congress-website.
eSymposium: Phytotherapeutics in Children
Rationalizing optimal Dosing for use in Children:
Current Situation – Potential Solutions – Activities needed
Science for Children at the border between paediatrics, regulatory affairs, toxicology and epidemiology
“Children are no small adults with respect to the treatment with medicinal products” – as stated by WHO. This understanding has been the basis for the initiative of the European Commission to build the Paediatric Committee (PDCO) as scientific board in the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
A Paediatric Regulation came into force in the European Union (EU) on 26 January 2007. Its objective was and still is to improve the health of children in Europe by facilitating the development and availability of medicines for children aged 0 to 17 years. 15 years later we have to realize, that the results are moderate.
This eSymposium will give opportunity to analyse the reasons and to present prospects for alternatives to establish proof of safe and efficacious herbal medicines for children’s use. The eSymposium should be the starting point to discuss actions to be initiated as soon as possible to find suitable ways for establishing rationalized dosage regimes for phytotherapeutics for the use in children.
This eSymposium is a joint initiative of the Society of Medicinal Plants and Natural Products Research (GA), the Gesellschaft für Phytotherapie (GPT) and the Foundation Plants for Health (PfH) with the aim facilitating research in this neglected area of healthcare, including future funding opportunities of research for phytotherapeutics in children.
The Seminar will take place via Zoom on May 17, 2022, 10.00 am – 5.00 pm (CEST). No fee will be charged; a registration link will soon be published.
You can download the program here.
Please use this link to register.
Your registration will be checked manually and you will receive a Zoom link via email afterwards – please check your spam-folder.
The eSeminary series is free of charge.
Regulation of Natural Products – a Global Challenge
Part B: HMP and Botanicals: Regulation worldwide (1)
- February 18, 2022
- March 25, 2022
- April 29, 2022
- May 20, 2022
The eSeminary series is free for GA members and for employees of organizations supporting GA, while for non-members there is a fee of € 100 for all four days.
You can download the program here.
You can register here.
2021
Regulation of Natural Products – a Global Challenge
- September 10, 2021
- September 24, 2021
- October 29, 2021
- November 26, 2021
Online, Download program and registration information here.
PHYTOCHEMICAL, PHARMACOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL EVIDENCE
18 November 2021, 9.00 – 16.15, Online
organized by Herbal Medicinal Products Platform Austria (HMPPA)
Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
For further information click here.
69th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the
Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
September 5 – 8, 2021
You can visit the congress-site here.
20th International Congress of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology
Postponed due to the increasing spread of corona virus COVID-19
New Date: April 18-21, 2021
All registrations are valid. Further details will follow soon
https://ethnopharmacology2021.org/
International Conference on Medicinal and Food Plant Research & 3rd Sino-CPLP Symposium on Natural Products and Biodiversity Resources
April 18 and 21, 2021, hybrid-meeting
Online, For further information, please visit https://ethnopharmacology2021.org/ or download program.
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: Basic knowledge on a novel pandemic
March 11th 2021, online
This lecture will take place online via Zoom.
2020
Lavender: phytochemical, pharmacological and clinical evidence
Scientific eSymposium,
November 20, 2020
Organized by Herbal Medicinal Products Platform Austria (HMPPA) and Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA).
http://www.hmppa.at/lavender-eSymposium
GA-Award Lectures and Young Researchers’ Workshop
November 6 – 7, 2020
Scientific eSymposium
For further information, please download the event-flyer.
You will find a detailed agenda for the YRW here.
Novel Insights into Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Toxicity And Implications for Risk Assessment
September 29-30, 2020
For further information please download the event flyer.
Symposium in honour of Prof. Dr. Max Wichtl
February 28, 2020
more information here
2019
67th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
September 1 – 5, 2019
Innsbruck, Austria
http://www.ga2019.at/
Symposium “EDELWEISS – PHYTOCHEMICAL, PHARMACOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL EVIDENCE”
April 25, 2019
Graz, Austria
2018
30th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products and the 10th International Congress on Biodiversity (ISCNP30 & ICOB10)
November 25 – 29, 2018
Athens, Greece
“Cannabis – Phytochemical, Pharmacological and Clinical Evidence”
A scientific symposium organized by the Herbal Medicinal Products Platform Austria (HMPPA), and the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
November 15, 2018
University of Vienna, Austria
International Conference on Natural Product Biotechnology
September 20 – 21, 2018
TU Dortmund University, Germany
8th symposium on MAP
September 10 – 13, 2018
Bonn, Germany
66th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) jointly with the 11th Shanghai TCM conference
August 26 – 29, 2018
Shanghai, China
Phytopharm 2018
June 25 – 27, 2018
Wädenswil, Switzerland
more information here
Phytotherapie 2018 – Mit Phytotherapie in die Zukunft
Tetranationaler Kongress
31. Mai bis 2. Juni 2018,
Vienna, Austria
more information here
2017
Scientific workshop “Fevervew and parthenolide – phytochemical, pharmacological and clinical evidence“
November 16, 2017
Vienna, Austria
65th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
September 3 – 7, 2017
Basel, Switzerland
XXIst International Congress “Phytopharm 2017” and 10th Anniversary of the TCM Research Center Graz
July 2 – 5, 2017
Graz, Austria
The Nagoya Protocol: access and benefit-sharing of nature’s genetic resources
February 27, 2017
Florence, Italy
2016
Medicinal Plant Research in the 21st Century-Pharmacognosy, quo vadis?
September 30, 2016
Graz, Austria
64th Annual Meeting of GA and 9th Joint Natural Product Conference 2016 (Joint Meeting with ASP, AFERP, JSP, PSE and SIF)
July 24 – 27, 2016
Copenhagen, Denmark
20th International Congress “Phytopharm 2016” and courses “GxP in biomedical research”
July 11 – 14, 2016
St. Petersburg, Russia
6th International Symposium Breeding Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (BREEDMAP 6)
June 19 – 23, 2016
Quedlinburg, Germany
Trinationaler Kongress für Phytotherapie, Trinationaler Phytokongress von GPT, SMGP, ÖGPhyt 2016
June 2 – 4, 2016
Bonn, Germany
2015
63rd International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
August 23 – 27, 2015
Budapest, Hungary
2014
62nd International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
August 31 – September 4, 2014
Guimaraes, Portugal
18th International Congress “PHYTOPHARM 2014”
July 3 – 5, 2014
St-Petersburg, Russia
Internationale Tagung “Phytotherapie 2014: Klinik und Praxis”
June 18 – 21, 2014
Winterthur, Switzerland
Phytopharmaka-Symposium 2014
May 19, 2014
Bonn, Germany
2013 and earlier
61st International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
September 1 – 5, 2013
Muenster, Germany
17th International Congress “Phytopharm 2013”
July 8 – 10, 2013
Vienna, Austria
12th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals
April 15 – 18, 2013
Oxford, Mississippi, USA
Shanghai International Conference for TCM and Natural Medicine
October 20 – 21, 2012
Shanghai, China
13th International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology
September 2 – 6, 2012
Graz, Austria
60th International Congress (Joint Meeting with ASP, AFERP, PSE and SIF) and Annual Meeting of GA
July 28 – August 1, 2012
New York, USA
16th International Congress PHYTOPHARM 2012
July 9 – 11, 2012
St-Petersburg, Russia
5th International Symposium “Breeding Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants” (BREEDMAP 2012)
June 18 – 20, 2012
Vienna, Austria
8th Brazilian Symposium of Pharmacognosy and 11th International Symposium of the Brazilian Society of Pharmacognosy
April 18 – 22, 2012
Ilhéus-Bahia, Brazil
5th Mistletoe Symposium
November 10 – 12, 2011
Nonnweiler, Germany
59th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research
September 4 – 9, 2011
Antalya, Turkey
The XV International Congress “PHYTOPHARM 2011”
July 25 – 27, 2011
Nuremberg, Germany
PharmSciFair 2011
June 14 – 17, 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
10th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals
April 11 – 14, 2011
Oxford, Mississippi, USA
“Quality, Safety and Efficacy of Herbal Medicinal Products and Botanical Food Supplements in EC: an up-to-date view” in the occasion of Franco Francesco Vincieri’s retirement and in the framework of the project “Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products of Arabic medicine”
December 20, 2010
Florence, Italy
Shanghai International Conference on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicines – New Idea, New Technique, New Method
October 15 – 17, 2010
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
58th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research
August 29 – September 2, 2010
Berlin, Germany
14th International Congress “Phytopharm 2010”
July 1 – 3, 2010
St. Petersburg, Russia
9th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals
April 12 – 15, 2010
Mississippi, USA
2nd Shanghai International Conference on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicines (S-TCM 2009)
October 16 – 18, 2009
Shanghai, China
Berliner Kongress Phytotherapie 2009
September 10 – 12, 2009
Berlin, Germany
57th International Congress & Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research
August 16 – 20, 2009
Geneva, Szwitzerland
13th International Congress “Phytopharm 2009”
July 29 – 31, 2009
Bonn, Germany
2nd Pharmaceutical Sciences Fair and Exhibition – 2009 PharmSciFair
June 8 – 12, 2009
Nice, France
Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine – Acupuncture and Medicinal Plant Research
May 14 – 16, 2009
Graz, Austria
8th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals
April 6 – 9, 2009
Oxford, Mississippi, USA
WOCMAP IV – World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
November 9 – 14, 2008
Cape Town, South Africa
2008 Shanghai International Conference on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicine (S-TCM 2008)
October 10 – 12, 2008
Shanghai, China
56th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research and 7th Joint Meeting of AFERP, ASP, GA, PSE & SIF “Natural Products with Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical, Cosmetic and Agrochemical Interest”
August 3 – 8, 2008
Athens, Greece
12th International Congress “Phytopharm 2008”
July 2 – 4, 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia
Phytopharmaka in Deutschland – Eine Standortbestimmung
June 2 – 3, 2008
Bonn, Germany
Workshop on Metabolomics and Systems Biology
April 24 – 25, 2008
Leiden, Netherlands
7th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals & American Society of Pharmacognosy. 4th Interim Meeting
April 12- 16, 2008
Oxford, Mississippi, USA
Bernburger Winterseminar und 5. Fachtagung Arznei- und Gewürzpflanzen Qualität, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Nachhaltigkeit
February 18 – 21, 2008
Bernburg-Strenzfeld, Germany
Phytopharmaka und Phytotherapie 2008 – Forschung und Praxis
February 14 – 16, 2008
Berlin, Germany
4th Mistletoe Symposium
November 8 – 10, 2007
Nonnweiler, Germany
Symposium “Arzneimittelinteraktionen mit Phytopharmaka:Relevanz, Bewertung, Testung, Regularien”
October 12, 2007
Erlangen, Germany
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Pharmazeutischen Gesellschaft in Gemeinschaft mit der Österreichischen Pharmazeutischen Gesellschaft und der Gesellschaft für Arzneipflanzenforschung a joint meeting of DPhG, ÖPhG and GA
October 10 – 13, 2007
Erlangen, Germany
55th Annual Meeting and International Congress of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research
September 2 – 6, 2007
Graz, Austria
11th International Congress – Phytopharm 2007
June 27 – 29, 2007
Leiden, The Netherlands
12th International Congress of Polish Herbal Committee
May 24 – 25, 2007
Poznan, Poland
Traditional Herbal Medicines – Opportunities and Challenges for the Future
February 27, 2007
London, UK
LOF Symposium on “Combinatorial Biosynthesis – Combining Science and and Concepts”
October 20, 2006
Groningen, Netherlands
Phytopharmaka und Phytotherapie 2006 – Forschung und Praxis
September 28 – 30, 2006
Berlin, Germany
International Congress and 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research
August 29 – September 2, 2006
Helsinki, Finland
2nd annual conference: Natural Products in Drug Discovery & Development
June 21 – 22, 2006
London, UK
Pharmacovigilance of herbal medicines: current state and future directions
April 26 – 28, 2006
London, UK
Natural Products Active against Human Pathogens
April 6 – 7, 2006
London, UK
Workshop “Natural Products in Drug Discovery”
March 30 – 31, 2006
Vienna, Austria
The „Global Summit on HIV / AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge“
March 14 – 18, 2006
Accra, Ghana
Natural Product-Derived Compound Libraries
February 21, 2006
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“LSD – problem child and wonder drug”
January 13 – 15, 2006
Basel, Switzerland
Phytopharmaka und Phytotherapie joint meeting of GKPharm, GPhyt, GA, KFN
October 6 – 8, 2005
Berlin, Germany
First Munich Conference on Field of Flow Fractionation in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
October 6 – 7, 2005
Munich, Germany
International Congress and 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research, a joint meeting with SIF
August 21 – 25, 2005
Florence, Italy
International Symposium on Pharmacovigilance of Herbal Medicines
April 26 – 28, 2005
London, UK
Workshop Drug discovery from Nature
March 30 – 31, 2005
Vienna, Austria
Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge
March 14 – 16, 2005
Accra, Ghana
HPLC-MS for quality control of herbal medicinal products
September 30 – October 1, 2004
Vienna, Austria
Visual methods in the proof of the crude drugs and related fields
September 23 – 24, 2004
Vienna, Austria
52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research and 7th Joint Meeting of AFERP, ASP, GA, & PSE
July 31 – August 4, 2004
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Vision and perspectives in pharmaceutical sciences
June 17 – 18, 2004
Starnberg, Germany
Chinese Herbal Medicines
June 11 – 12, 2004
London Kew Garden, Great Britain
Phytopharmaka und Phytotherapie, a joint meeting of GA, GPT and GKPharm
February 26 – 28, 2004
Berlin, Germany
3rd Mistletoe Symposium
November 20 – 22, 2003
Nonnweiler, Germany
International Congress and 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research
August 31 – September 4, 2003
Kiel, Germany
International Symposium 50 Years “Gesellschaft für Arzneipflanzenforschung
April 8, 2003
Bad Camberg, Germany
LOF Symposium
February 28, 2003
Antwerp, Belgium
