WELCOME TO ICMPHP -2012
We extend a cordial invitation to the “4th International Conference on Medicinal Plants & Herbal Products” HERBAL EXHIBITION – 2012” organized by St. Laurent Institute (Genoma Ayurveda) & George Washington University, Washington DC in collaboration with S.V.Unversity, Tirupati, India, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and GDP Ayurvedic University (GDPAU), New Jersey, USA, INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL for MEDICINAL and AROMATIC PLANTS (ICMAP); American Academy of Ayurvedic Medicine, Inc. (AAAM).USA, with the support of BioMaryland, Maryland University, Embassy of India, Washington, Amarex Clinical Research, Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd, Pune, India,from 6th to 8th September 2012. The aim of the Conference is to provide a platform for eminent researchers, academicians, physicians, traditional medical practitioners, manufacturers & exporters of herbal products, members from the corporate sector, marketing consultants and NGOs from all over the world.
ABOUT SLI
SLI was founded in 2005 as a non-profit medical research institute by Georges St. Laurent, Jr., an original Board member of the Celera Human Genome Project, and Georges St. Laurent, III, an accomplished molecular biologist and neuroscientist. SLI’s global research activities include projects in India, Russia, the Amazonian region of Colombia and Brasil, The People’s Republic of China, and the United States. SLI maintains research collaborations with academic investigators at institutions around the USA and the world. Research interests include the molecular mechanisms of physiological information flow through molecular networks during stress and disease. SLI also signed MoU with S.V. University, Tirupati, India.
About Maryland Biotechnology Center, Maryland University
The Maryland Biotechnology Center was created in 2009 by Governor Martin O'Malley as one of the first initiatives of BioMaryland 2020- the State Strategic Plan for Life Sciences delivered by the Maryland Life Sciences Advisory Board. The Center is your portal to programs and resources intended to grow and strengthen the State's bioscience community.
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL for MEDICINAL and AROMATIC PLANTS (ICMAP)
ICMAP is an international non-governmental body with the general objective as promoting international understanding and cooperation between national and international organizations on the role of medicinal and aromatic plants in science, medicine and industry, and to improve the exchange of information between them.
This Council coordinates and stimulates cooperation between partners by providing a forum for mobilizing ideas, actions, discussions, long term visions, measures in education and training in all fields related to these plants that play such an important part in the lives of human beings throughout the world.
About GDPAU: GDP Ayurvedic University (GDPAU) is a “Not-for-Profit” University established (2001) in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with the vision to bring credibility and recognition traditional medicine system of Health in the western world, in particular to the Ayurvedic Medicines and Profession being used in India, through research, education, training therapy and mass promotion.
The mission of GDPAU is to establish a state-of-the-art center of excellence in the field of Ayurveda, Yoga and Allied Alternative System of Medicines in the USA, Bring modern technologies and methods to validate the folklore knowledge through Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QC/QA) and Standardization. Bring credibility to herbal product by developing and delivering effective solutions to current and future challenges.
S.V.Unversity
Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, which was established in 1954 in the world famous temple town of Tirupati on the sprawling campus of 1000 acres with a panoramic and pleasant hill view, has been laying, right from its inception, more emphasis on teaching, research and extension activities in different subjects. The range of subject departments, courses and research programs undertaken and promoted by the University during the last fifty-four years reflects the Sri Venkateswara University’s commitment in promoting socially relevant and inter-disciplinary programs;
University of Colombo
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka being the first and foremost University in the country with a proud history of demonstrating academic excellence and producing great minds and statesmen has seven Faculties of Studies, one Campus and seven affiliated Institutes including the Institute of Indigenous Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine. University of Colombo has produced world renowned scholars and practitioners in the fields of science, medicine, law, social sciences, humanities, education, fine arts etc;
THEMES & SUB-THEMES
The programmes will comprise plenary lectures by invited speakers and oral/ poster/ video presentations, practical demonstrations, web costing and exhibitions.
1) Medicinal plants in Traditional Medicine.
2) Molecular biology & Biotechnology of medicinal plants
3) Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry of medicinal plants
4) Translational research of complementary & alternative medicine
5) Pharmacology and Advanced Clinical Research on medicinal plants.
6) Cultivation, Organic forming, Conservation, propagation of medicinal plants.
7) Herbal cosmetics and neutraceuticals.
8) Patents & Intellectual property rights (IPR)
9) Quality Control and marketing of Herbal Products
Instructions For Submitting Abstracts:
The organizers of the 4th International Conference on Medicinal Plants & Herbal Products invite submission of scientific abstracts for short oral presentations or for poster presentations. The deadline for submission of abstracts for both the oral and poster presentations is July 31, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be made by August 1, 2012. It is preferred that abstracts be submitted in electronic format.
Submissions by fax WILL NOT BE accepted. Abstracts may be submitted for either oral or poster presentation. Oral presentations should be ten minutes including questions and answers.
Please adhere to the following format and submit all abstracts electronically. Use a typeface no smaller than 12 points on a single 8½ x 11-inch page. Each abstract should include the following:
1) Title of paper: Use all caps and include the name of the cooperative group, if any.
2) All authors: Use upper and lower case. Include all authors in same paragraph as title, then affiliations, city, state and country.
3) Abstract: The abstract should include a) a single sentence describing the purpose, b) brief description of procedures, c) results, and d) conclusions. Tables may be used.
In a cover letter or email accompanying your abstract submission indicate whether the presentation format you desire is for oral presentation or poster presentation. Be sure to include your complete contact information and a statement that if accepted you agree to make your presentation in Johns Hopkins University Campus, Rockville, MD,USA, at the place and time designated by the organizers of the 4th International Conference on Medicinal Plants & Herbal Products
Submit to: Dr. Krishna Banaudha, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences via email to icmphp4@gmail.com
REGISTRATION
All participants are requested to register for the conference by sending the filled-in Registration Form along with prescribed fee on or before 31th July 2012 to icmphp4@gmail.com
Registration fees include all sessions, welcome reception on 6th September 2012, conference kit, programme and abstract book lunch and tea for three days (stay not included). You can download the registration form from our web.
General Registration:
$350 per person through July 31, 2012
$450 per person After July 31, 2012 or on-site
Industrial / Institutional registration
$600 per person through July 31, 2012
$800 per person After July 31, 2012 or on-site
Student Registration (student i.d. required):
$250 per person through July 31, 2012
$350 per person after July 31, 2012 or on-site
REGISTRATION POLICIES
Cancellations on or prior to July 31, 2012 are fully refundable less a $100 processing fee.
No refunds for cancellations on or after July 31, 2012 .
Registrations may be transferred to a substitute if the original registrant cannot attend.
Portions of this conference may be videotaped, photographed and webcasted by the conference and media. By attending this conference, you acknowledge that you may be videotaped or photographed or webcasted.
Visa Information & Letters of Invitation
Participants from outside the United States may need to apply for a visa at the American Embassy, consulate, or other visa-issuing office in their country of origin. Please begin your visa application process immediately after registering for the conference as some applications can take several months to process. For information on obtaining your visa, go to www.unitedstatesvisas.gov.
Many visa issuing offices require that you present a letter of invitation to the conference along with your visa application.
If you need a letter of invitation, please email the below information to Dr. Krishna Banaudha, The George Washington University, USA icmphp4@gmail.com
1. Your full name as it appears on your passport
2. Your professional or academic title
3. The name of your school, department, institution, lab, or business
4. Your full mailing address
Student Awards
Two (2) $250 cash awards for excellence in student posters will be offered by the Conference.
If you would like to enter your poster in the competition, you may do that on site at the Registration Booth at the beginning of the conference. Ask for a colored dot at the Registration booth and place on your poster.
Posters will be judged anonymously by an international panel of senior scientists using the following criteria:
1) Presence of clear hypotheses and experimental designs that will render meaningful conclusions
2) Significance or originality of the subject addressed
3) Statistically significant and/or intellectually and scientifically aesthetic findings
4) Insight derived from the observations or resolution of hypotheses
5) Clarity of visual and descriptive presentation of the work.
Awards will be given at the banquet on 8th September 2012
AWARDS
Scientists, Herbalists, Herbal Medical Practitioners/ Manufacturers, Medicinal Plant Conservators and Biotechnologists will be honorued with the following awards: 1) Merit of Excellence Award; 2) Traditional Medicine Practitioner Award 3) Talented Scientist Award; 4) Talented Medical Practitioner Award 5) Talented Conservator Award 6) Talented Biotechnologists Award 7) Outstanding Herbal Medical Formulator Award 8) The Best Exhibitor Award; 9) The Best Ayurvedic Practitioner Award and 10) Young Scientist Award (Age below 40). The selection will be done by the Scientific Committee. Nominations for all the above awards should be sent via email to icmphp4@gmail.com using the prescribed form on or before 31th July 2012 along with passport size photos, a brief curriculum vitae and an article (about 1,000 words) stating the nominees contribution which merit him/her receiving the award. The nomination form can be downloaded from our web site.
WEB CASTING :
ICMPHP4-2012 will web cast all the pogrammes and the events associated with it through web Casting “Distance is no longer a barrier to bring awareness on Medicinal Plants " using Internet technology to bring awareness even in the remote parts of the world. Please join the web casting by sending your registration forms to niucbd@gmail.com. All the registered delegates can participate & present their paper through web casting. Topics and speakers will be listed in our website and circulated by Email to the interested/registered participants only. Delegates have to join web casting 5 min. before the scheduled time. Using Access Code provided to registered delegates, so that we can start the web-cast without much treble. Please note that the ICMPHP4 is not responsible for Internet failures or power cuts during the web cast.
Ayu medica 2012 (Herbal Expo-2012) Interested people can contact us (updating soon)
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Conference Secretariat
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
MEDICINAL PLANTS & HERBAL PRODUCTS, ICMPHP-2012
The George Washington University,
Washington DC, 20037,USA
Cell : 301-633-5563; office : 202-994-3775
Web : http://icmphp4.blogspot.in/
E-mail: icmphp4@gmail.com
