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Journal of Biotechnology and Phytochemistry
Volume 1 Issue 3 Chemistry World 2017
November 13-15, 2017 Athens, Greece
7th World Congress on
Chemistry
Bilge Sener, J Biotech and Phyto 2017
Quality control and regulatory issues of
phytomedicines for global health care
Herbal medicinal products have been playing an
important role in the primary health care of the
people around the world, specially in the developing
countries. In order to treat health problems with the
modern medicines, the production of safe and effective
herbal medicinal products in a standardized way is
essential. Assessment of the quality, safety and efficacy
of herbal medicinal products are an important issue.
Standardization of raw materials, intermediates and
final product of herbal medicines are the main issue for
the quality control of herbal medicinal products. All of the
supporting evidence behind the use of phytomedicines
has been on use of standardized extracts of the plant
material to ensure reproducibility in the clinical setting.
With the growing interest for alternative approaches in
treating diseases, herbal medicinal products have also
an important role for the development of new therapeutic
agents. For this issue, researches should focus on: 1.
characterization of phytomedicines in terms of chemical
composition and biofunctional activity. 2. studying the
effects of certain processing and extraction methods
and parameters on the chemical characteristics of
phytomedicines source materials. 3. development of
chemo-based and bio-based standardization methods
for phytomedicines. Herbal medicinal products named
as “Phytomedicines” exhibit a variety of biological
activities on human health. These range from the
control of regulatory processes by Health Authorities
is essential for human life. Therefore, herbal medicinal
products are also subject to the same legislative
controls as other medicines. The overview of the
herbal medicinal products worldwide along with current
registration guidelines and criteria for the control and
market situation of herbal medicinal products in Turkey
will be highlighted.
Biography
Bilge Sener graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy in 1974.
She has completed her PhD awarded by the Turkish Scientific and Technological
Research Council (TUBITAK) at the Department of Pharmacognosy in 1977. In
1981, she became an Associate Professor. She was involved within the process of
establishing Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University
in 1982. She became a Full Professor in 1988. She achieved some researches at
the Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) between
1986 and 1988 as Visiting Scientist awarded by National Science Foundation. She
was also involved in several administrative works at Gazi University; as Director at
the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University between
1982 and 2002, as Chair at Division of the Professional Sciences of Pharmacy,
as Co-Director at the Institute of Health Sciences (1988-1994) and as Dean at the
Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University (1994-1997). She was given the degree of
Adjunct Professor by University of Karachi, Pakistan. She worked as Director in
48 projects supported by NATO, NSF, IUPAC, Soctrates-Grundtvig, TUBITAK and
Universirty Research Funds by now. She has authored or co-authored 7 books,
85 chapters and 658 research articles published in leading international journals.
She has also given 68 conferences and 313 plenary and invited lectures at the
international symposia in the field of natural product chemistry. She has supervised
5 PhD, 12 MSc at Gazi University as well as co-supervised 17 PhD thesis at the
University of Karachi. She is amember for 14 international and national professional
societies.
Bilge Sener
Gazi University, Turkey