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2017 Symposium Programme

HERBAL MEDICINE AND HEALTH FOODS: RESEARCH AT THE INTERFACE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND SOCIETY

Wednesday 11 October 2017

1:30-5:30 PM

John Hanbury Lecture Theatre

UCL School of Pharmacy

London WC1N 1AX

DOWNLOAD THE PRINTABLE PROGRAMME HERE (.pdf file).

1.30 - 2.00 Registration- Square Lounge 

2.00-3.30 Session 1: Herbs in Science and Regulation

John Hanbury Theatre (Mezzanine)

 Chair: Marianne Jen Datiles

  • 2.00-2.30 Dr. Barbara Pendry, University of East London. "Chasing Rainbows: A Look into Regulation of Herbalists"
  • 2.30-3.00 Dr. Francesca Scotti, UCL. "Saint John's Wort or not Saint John's Wort? An Insight into the Quality of a Traditional Herbal Medicine"
  • 3.00-3.30 Zachary Bellman, UCL. "An Unwatched Pot Never Boils: The Need for Regulation in the Medical Cannabis Industry (and Herbal Medicine in General)"

3.30-3.45 Break and Poster Session

3.45-5.15 Session 2: Herbs as Food and Medicine

John Hanbury Theatre (Mezzanine) 

Chair: Dr. Francesca Scotti

  • 3.45-4.15 Dr. Charlene Murphy, UCL. "Archaeobotanical Evidence for Spices in South Asia"
  • 4.15-4.45 Dr. Mark Nesbitt and Kimberly Walker, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. "A Tale of Two Cities: Assembling Cinchona Bark Collections in Leiden and London"
  • 4.45-5.15 Dr. Mukrish Hanafi, UCL. "In vitro Pro-Apoptotic Effects of Marantodes pumilum (Blume) Kuntze Extracts o­­n Prostate Cancer Cell Lines"

5.15-5.30 Poster Session - Square Lounge 

The symposium will be immediately followed by a reception and the UCL Annual Frank Fish Lecture. This year's speaker is Dr. Linda Anderson, BPharm, PhD, FRPharmS, FSP, who will speak on the impact of federal herbal regulation. Separate registration is required to ensure adequate refreshments are provided: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/pharmacy-news/frankfish2017