Plants in the service of human health

描述（由申请人提供）：该计划的目的是召开一个“最先进的”科学研讨会，题为“植物为人类健康服务：继续寻找新的植物为基础的疗法”，以突出NIH资助的植物膳食补充剂研究中心和NIH福格蒂国际中心资助的国际合作生物多样性小组项目的成就。本次研讨会的重点将是新的研究工具和技术，用于促进植物和植物药及其生物活性的研究，可能导致新的疗法。研讨会将于2007年6月4日在伊利诺伊州芝加哥的芝加哥植物园举行，作为经济植物学会第4 - 8届年会（2007年6月4日至8日）的中心活动。研讨会将给观众预计约250人，从广泛的学科有关植物科学。通过研讨会参与者和观众之间的讨论，该项目将促进科学多学科合作，小组之间的思想交流和沟通，这将促进新方法，工具和技术的应用，以研究植物和植物药及其生物活性，以实现新的治疗方法，并促进这些领域的新的跨学科研究计划。我们计划在天然产物研究领域的一份著名期刊上出版研讨会的论文集，作为一套同行评议的手稿。NIH资助的植物膳食补充剂研究中心（Centers for Botanical Dietary Supplement Research）对草药疗法进行科学评估，NIH Fogarty国际中心资助的国际生物多样性合作组织（International Cooperative Biodiversity Group）项目试图从植物中发现新的处方药，它们都在努力开发和标准化基于植物的有效疗法。以前没有任何论坛将这两个项目结合在一起，两个项目之间也很少有科学交流。拟议的研讨会将允许一种独特的互动，可能会带来这两个项目的进步，优化和提高他们为人类健康提供植物疗法的能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this program is to convene a "state of the art" scientific symposium entitled "Plants in the Service of Human Health: The Continuing Search for New Plant-based Therapies" to highlight the achievements of the NIH-funded Centers for Botanical Dietary Supplement Research and the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group projects funded by the NIH Fogarty International Center. The focus of this symposium will be on new research tools and technologies used to promote the study of plants and botanicals and their biological activities that may lead toward new therapies. The Symposium will be held at the facilities of the Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago, Illinois, on June 4, 2007, as the central event of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany (June 4-8, 2007). The Symposium will be given to an audience anticipated to number approximately 250, from a wide range of disciplines related to plant science. Through discussions among the symposium participants and audience the project will promote scientific multi- disciplinary collaboration, exchange of ideas and communication among the groups that will facilitate the application of new methodologies, tools and technologies toward the investigation of plants and botanicals and their biological activities toward new therapies, as well as facilitate new cross-disciplinary research initiatives in these fields. We plan to publish proceedings of the Symposium as a set of peer-reviewed manuscripts in a prominent journal in the field of natural products research. Both the NIH-funded Centers for Botanical Dietary Supplement Research, which scientifically evaluate herbal therapies, and the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group projects funded by the NIH Fogarty International Center, which attempt to discover new prescription drugs from plants, are striving to develop and standardize effective therapies based on plants. No previous forum has brought the two programs together, and there has been little scientific exchange between the two programs. The proposed symposium will allow a unique interaction that may bring about advances in both programs, optimizing and enhancing their ability to deliver plant-based therapies for human health.