MediWales is delighted to launch the Natural Compounds Special Interest Group (SIG) with an event on 27th April in Cardiff alongside its collaborative partners. The launch event ‘Farmer to Pharma: Commercialisation of Natural Products’ will explore the development and commercialisation of natural products for health, wellbeing and disease management.

Following on from the launch event, the group will create a forum that augments existing research-focused interest groups so that findings from research environments can be transferred into commercialised products.

The focus of the Special Interest Group will be on taking natural compounds that have already been identified and for which research data already exists, to market. The group will share advice on developing routes to market, managing regulatory requirements, achieving relevant product certifications and running clinical trials.

This event is free to attend.

Programme:

Introduction

• Michael Graz – Neem Biotech

Keynote presentation

• Dr Joerg Gruenwald – Analyze & Realize GmbH
  The need for science to establish a successful natural product

Funding opportunities

• Bryan Hanley – KTN
  The commercialisation of natural products
  Bryan Hanley – KTN
  
• Melanie Goward – Finance Wales
  Natural compounds businesses – funding options
  Melanie Goward – Finance Wales
  

Company showcase

• Andrew Mearns Spragg – Jellagen
  From the seabed to the sickbed
• Prof Andy Wells – CatSci
  Biocatalysis for the modification of natural products
  Andy Wells – CatSci
  
• Neil Gibbs – Curapel
  Curapel: Healing skin safely with natural compounds
  
• James Hindley – Indoor Biotechnologies
  Purified natural allergens for molecular diagnostics and product standardisation
  James Hindley – Indoor Biotechnologies
  
• Neil James – Croda
  Innovative ingredients from natural sources
  Neil James – Croda
  
• Chris Price-Jones – BIC Innovation & NutriWales
  NutriWales: About the cluster & what we are trying to achieve
  Chris Price-Jones – NutriWales
  

Regulatory insight

• Katie Beckett – National Measurement and Regulation Office
  Access and benefit sharing: implementation in the UK
• Karolina Bate – Cyton Biosciences Ltd, a knoell company
  Natural compounds in animal health
  Karolina Bate – Cyton Biosciences
  
• Alice Teague – Food Standards Agency
  The regulatory landscape for herbals and food supplements
  Alice Teague – FSA
  

Research showcase

• Wendy Russell – The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health
  Natural product metabolism – implications for human health
  
• Jeremy Spencer – University of Reading
  The acute and chronic effects of flavanol/anthocyanin intervention on human cognitive function
  Jeremy Spencer – Reading University
  
• Rose Cooper – Cardiff Metropolitan University
  Honey: A sweet success or a sticky subject?
  Rose Cooper – Cardiff Met
  
• Jamie Newbold  – Aberystwyth Univerisity IBERS
  Screening natural products for biological activity
  Jamie Newbold – IBERS
  

With an excellent response to the meeting so far, we have had a request to add an exhibition to this event. Exhibition space is available for £575 +VAT. Please contact  Isabelle for more information.

Register below.