677 Papers Presented to the 7th National Congress on Medicinal Plants

According to a report by public relations of Vice-presidency for Science and Technology, Peyman Salehi, the Scientific Secretary of the 7th National Congress on Medicinal Plants, referred to the fact that this event is held in Shiraz through 12-14 May, 2018, by National Network of Research and Technology and supported by National Council for Science and Technology Development of Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine, he then added, “The National Congress on Medicinal Plants is held biennially in Tehran and the other years it is held in one of our provinces. Since the previous event was held in Tehran last year, it is held in Shiraz, this year.”

He pointed out that the main subjects of the congress are: basic sciences, agriculture and natural resources, pharmacy, medicine and veterinary medicine as well as industry and economics, and added, “976 relavent papers have been submitted to the secretariat of this event, 435 of which is in the field of agriculture and natural resources, 306 papers are in the field of pharmacy, medicine and veterinary medicine, in basic sciences, there are 218 papers and 18 papers are in the field of industry and economics. A total of 677 of which were approved for the congress.”

According to this member of National Council for Science and Technology Development of Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine, Vice-presidency for Science and Technology, the 7th National Congress on Medicinal Plants is attended by, among others, five foreign guests from Austria, Germany and France, and lasts for two and a half days. Well-known companies in the field of medicinal plants and natural-based products also participate in an exhibition which is concurrent with this congress. Several of these companies are the sponsors of National Network of Medicinal Plants.

Salehi stressed that the 7th National Congress on Medicinal Plants has a license from ISC (Islamic World Science Citation Center), as well as an accreditation for medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural as well as veterinary majors.

In this congress, fields of study such as pharmacy (in bachelors, masters and doctorate levels), medical biotechnology, traditional and clinical pharmacy, pharmaceutical biology, pharmacognosy, medicinal plants nanotechnology in terms of pharmaceutical nanotechnology, traditional medicine (in doctorate level) and toxicology (in masters level) have a retraining accreditation of 12.

General physicians (professional doctors) and general physicians working for Family Practice Plan (professional doctors) receive an accreditation of eight and a half from this congress. Also, OBGYN majors (specialists) and midwives (in bachelors and masters’ level) get a retraining accreditation of 6.

The main subjects of the 7th National Congress on Medicinal Plants are basic sciences, agriculture and natural resources, pharmacy, medicine and veterinary medicine as well as industry and economics.

Agriculture and natural resources include subjects such as ecology, plant physiology, domestication and modification, biotechnology, cultivation, post-harvest processing, mechanization as well as seed technology. Natural sciences contain botany, phytochemistry, biochemistry, genetics as well as biological and biotechnological effects. Traditional medicine, pharmacological effect, clinical effect, formulation and control are all topics in pharmacy, medicine and veterinary. Subjects of industry and economy are: trading of medicinal plants and their products, manufacturing of medicinal plant products, innovation in strategic products, high quality products and qualitative system, technology transfer and medicinal plant production.

The 7th National Congress on Medicinal Plants is held by National Network of Research and Technology and supported by National Council for Science and Technology Development of Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine, Vice-presidency for Science and Technology. This event is held in Shiraz University Complex from 12 to14 May, 2018.