To promote multidisciplinary collaborative researches in natural products and traditional medicines.
To produce natural products of good quality through scientific evidence.
To enhance quality of life through researches about natural products.
To respond to the need of the academic researchers to link with governmental and non-governmental organizations associated with natural product development industries.
Key Research Area: Medical Sciences, Traditional and Complementary Medicine
SDG: Good health and wellbeing, Life on Land
Cancer and Inflammation Signaling Pathway
Objectives:
Elucidation of dysregulated cell signaling pathway in cancer.
Discover the new correlation between inflammation and cancer.
Discovery of potential novel anticancer and anti-inflammatory agents derived from natural product.
Key Research Area: Pharmaceutical Design
SDG: Good health and wellbeing, Life on land
Natural Product Research and Development
Objectives:
To promote collaborations between multidisciplinary teams of scientists of drug discovery and drug development.
To focus on adding value to country's wealth of biological resources and indigenous knowledge through scientific innovations.
To identify potential new pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical ingredients based on the uses of natural products especially medicinal plants.
To develop leaf compounds and herbal treatments in search for solutions to some major diseases, i.e. bacterial infections, oxidative stress, ageing, and cancer.
