- Natural Product Development
Objectives:
- 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.
Key Research Area: Pharmaceutical Design
SDG: Good health and wellbeing, Life on Land
