Abstract
The impact of the University of Illinois at Chicago-based Vietnam-Laos International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) Program "Studies on Biodiversity of Vietnam and Laos", which has been in operation for the period of 1998-2005, touches on five major areas of endeavor: (a) biodiversity inventory and conservation; (b) studies on medicinal plants; (c) drug discovery and development; (d) economic development; and (e) issues on intellectual property rights and benefit sharing in natural products drug discovery and development. Highlights are presented and the significance is discussed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 473-481 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Natural Products |
Volume | 69 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2006 |
Scopus Subject Areas
- Analytical Chemistry
- Molecular Medicine
- Pharmacology
- Pharmaceutical Science
- Drug Discovery
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- Organic Chemistry