KUCHING: The Sarawak Biodiversity Centre (SBC) will host a webinar titled ‘Botanical Drug Development in the Malaysian Herbal Industry: Issues, Challenges and Breakthroughs from the Perspective of a Biotechnology Company’.
The webinar on Aug 27 at 3pm via Zoom will be delivered by Professor Dr Aman Shah Abdul Majid, head of the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and director of Centre for Natural Product and Angiogenesis Research, Quest International University of Perak, and medical director of NatureCeuticals and co-founder of Eman Biodiscoveries.
“Prof Aman Shah is a clinician scientist and bioentrepreneur with 20 years of experience. His career development and scope have spanned across various sectors, including clinical, academia as well as the pharmaceutical industry.
“He received his basic training in pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences at Otago University, New Zealand.
“Subsequently, he had his medical and surgical training at Sheffield University, United Kingdom,” SBC said on Thursday (Aug 19).
Prof Aman Shah is also a fellow of the prestigious British Royal Society of Biology, United Kingdom and he even served the British National Health Service as a medical officer before embarking on his doctoral degree from Oxford University.
He focused on visual neuroscience and ocular pharmacotherapeutics at Oxford and is a recipient of the Harvard Medical School Clinical Research Scholar Training Scholarship.
“The webinar will provide insights into the status of the herbal industry and the development of botanicals with high claims from pre-clinical to clinical studies to generate safety, quality and efficacy data to gain approval for the health claims of the products.”
Those who are interested can register via Zoom at https://bit.ly/3yLx83I and it will also be livestreamed on SBC’s official Facebook page.
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