12th International Conference and Exhibition on Natural Products and Medicinal Plants Research 2024

TheRole of Traditional Knowledge in Modern Natural Product Research
Event Dates
2024-12-12 - 2024-12-13
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25
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0
Attendees
100
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naturalproducts@expertsagenda.com
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Description

The "12th International Conference and Exhibition on Natural Products and Medicinal Plants Research" will be held during December 12-13, 2024 in Rome, Italy. Medicinal Plants and Natural Products conveys recent discoveries and developments in Natural Drugs discovery and natural produced drugs. A complete knowledge of a scientific discipline that described the Marine drug discovery and development and Medicinal Plants and Natural Products now explores the use of Natural products in industry as well as healthcare. 

Medicinal Plants and Natural Products 2024 is the chemistry of natural compounds is relatively unexplored and represents a vast resource for new medicines to combat major diseases such as cancer, AIDS or malaria. Research typically focuses on sessile organisms or slow moving animals because of their inherent need for chemical defences. Standard research involves an extraction of the organism in a suitable solvent followed by either an assay of this crude extract for a particular disease target or a rationally guided isolation of new chemical compounds using standard chromatography techniques.  

Moreover, it is likely that for every compound that does make it to the market, a better drug with distinct Medicinal chemistry, improved bioavailability and less unwanted side effects can be found either in chemical libraries or among the much larger number and diversity of natural products.

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