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Information about the PHYTOPHARM 2015 in BONN:
The "19th Phytopharm 2015 "took place from 21th to 24th of July 2015 in Bonn. It is an international conference on all aspects of modern phytotherapy. It is organized in principle by the St. Petersburg Institute of Pharmacy (Prof. V. Makarov and Prof. A. Shikov), and every 2nd year at an university in a Western European partner country. This year - for the second time after 2009 - in collaboration with the University of Bonn, with Mrs. Priv.-Doz. Dr. Gudrun Ulrich-Merzenich, Department of Internal Medicine III, UKB, and the Pharmaceutical Institute, Prof. Dr. Harald G. Schweim, Drug Regulatory Affairs. The meeting was held in the premises of the Pharmaceutical Institute and under the support of the Society for Phytotherapy, Mrs. Cornelia Schwöppe.
It was a remarkable event. In
times like these, it's a rare success
participating in a conference with
"Russian roots", not only a high official of the FDA CDER, Dr. Jinhui
Dou, Office of Drug Evaluation, United States, and at the same time the
HCMP- Chairman Prof. Dr. Werner Knöss, BfArM, Germany, but both with the
program so as to "tie up", that they were present from the first to the
last minute. It was probably also the fact that it has succeeded in the
conference to add a “regulatory focus”. So were - in addition to the
many technical lectures - also held further regulatory or
regulatory-close plenary lectures, so Prof. J. Novak, Vienna, on "Good
Agricultural and Collection Practice of wild Medicinal Plants", or Prof.
H. Schweim, Bonn, on "Status quo and Future Developments in Combination
of Medicinal Products".
Even
in the - first time performed -
"Regulatory Session" were, provided by Dr. E. Dauncey, Royal Botanic
Gardens Kew, UK, "Kew's Medicinal Plant Names Services ... Their role in
the safety and efficacy of plant-based medicines," Dr. K . Kuchta,
National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan, "How to receive regulatory
approval in Japan for Western Herbal Medicinal Products (WHMP)" and by
A. Maur, Cologne, "Demarcation between phytopharmaceutics and
Neighboring product categories in the EU" and lawyer J. Schweim, M.Sc.,
"Comparison and differentiation between Clinical Trials with Medicinal
Products and scientific studies with nutritional products", Bonn, highly
topical lectures held. Unfortunately - a "drop of
bitterness"
is always
there - the representatives of the Russian authorities had to cancel at
short notice.
Nearly all lectures (apart from a few, not shared by
the authors) will be offered in a timely manner to free download (email
to schweim@web.de, the link will be sent).
A total of 107
presentations, of which 12 invited lectures, held and so many scientific
posters were presented, that the abstract book (Obzory po klinicheskoj
farmakologii i lekarstvennoj terapii (Reviews of Clinical Pharmacology
and Drug Therapy), Tom13 / 2015 / Suppl. ISSN 1683 - 4100)
of the
conference has 175 entries.
The number of participants was
encouragingly high. In the certificated “pre-symposium” ( 21th and 22th
of July "GxP in Biomedical Research"),
designed jointly by Dir. u. Prof (retired) Dr. U. Muazzam, ex-BfArM,
Bonn, for
GMP, Prof. Dr. J. Pomp, University of applied
Science, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, for GLP and Univ.-Prof. Dr. H.
G. Schweim, RFW-University of Bonn, for GRP, were 54 participants, of which
- as planned - most of them from Russia, but also from other BRICS
countries and the Arab world as well as 12 PhD-students from Bonn. The
fee for participants from BRICS countries was fixed to 100 € per person,
therefore held under the "normal fee" of approx. 1500 € for such a
combined courses.
For the actual conference participants came from 30
countries: Algeria, Austria, Brazil, Congo, Egypt, Germany, lndia, Iran,
lraq, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Africa,
South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab
Emirates, United Kingdom and United States.
Our Russian colleagues expressed their gratitude to Mrs. Priv.-Doz. Dr. G. Ulrich-Merzenich as heading local event organiser
The overall satisfaction
with the scientific content of the meeting
up to the organization, was very
high related to the feedback.
Also the social part was not too short.
In addition to the "Come Together" were a group dinner ("banquet") and a
visit to the botanical garden with the "Bonner Highlights" on the
program. Even the weather “cooperated” and was constantly sunny and
warm.
Next year marks the 20th anniversary Phytopharm and is in St.
Petersburg around the time of the famous "White Nights" (around the
21/22 of June) take place. The Russian colleagues will certainly on this
occasion put together a very attractive program.
(click the links)