Director:
Ezra Béjar, Ph.D.

Advisors:
Robert Pozos, Ph.D., Director MIRT Program, San Diego State University.
Douglas Sharon, Ph.D., Museum of Man, San Diego CA.
Rainer Bussmann, Ph.D., San Francisco Research Station, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador.
Ricardo Reyes-Chilpa, Associate Professor, Institute of Chemistry, UNAM, Mexico.
 
 

ICP Mission statement:

Support research and training leading to new products and skills for a growing global botanicals market.

Goals

• Promote and fund research projects to investigate botanical medicines.
• Establish a clearinghouse for scientific publications and databases of Latin American herbal remedies
• Facilitate partnerships among public and private research institutions in the Americas as well as biotechnology, nutritional and pharmaceutical communities.
• Promote the participation and the exchange of international, multidisciplinary faculty and students among research institutions in the Americas.
• Develop curriculum on ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology.

Products

• Ethnobotanical databases
• Training programs in ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology
• Botanical supplements
• New screening procedures
• Analytical techniques to standardize botanical extracts

Publications:

Databases

"In Construction"
 

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