The Tuklas Lunas Program aims to develop world-class medicines from Philippine biodiversity using local expertise. It pursues drug development through standardized herbal drugs and identifying/characterizing compounds from marine and terrestrial sources. Potential products include standardized herbal supplements, herbal drugs, and drug candidates.
The Tuklas Lunas Program aims to develop world-class medicines from Philippine biodiversity using local expertise. It pursues drug development through standardized herbal drugs and identifying/characterizing compounds from marine and terrestrial sources. Potential products include standardized herbal supplements, herbal drugs, and drug candidates.
The Tuklas Lunas Program aims to develop world-class medicines from Philippine biodiversity using local expertise. It pursues drug development through standardized herbal drugs and identifying/characterizing compounds from marine and terrestrial sources. Potential products include standardized herbal supplements, herbal drugs, and drug candidates.
The Tuklas Lunas Program aims to develop world-class medicines from Philippine biodiversity using local expertise. It pursues drug development through standardized herbal drugs and identifying/characterizing compounds from marine and terrestrial sources. Potential products include standardized herbal supplements, herbal drugs, and drug candidates.
produce world-class medicines derived from Philippine biodiversity, leveraging on local expertise.
The program pursues a parallel track of
drug development: (1) the development of standardized herbal drugs, and (2) the identification and characterization of high-value purified active compounds derived from marine and terrestrial sources for specific therapeutic indications.
Potential products from the program can be in
the form of standardized herbal supplements, herbal drugs and drug candidates.
TUKLAS PHILIPPINE COUNCIL FOR HEALTH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Saliksik Building, DOST Compound, Gen. Santos Ave.,
Bicutan, Taguig City 1631 Philippines
LUNAS (+632) 837-7534 to 37
www.pchrd.dost.gov.ph feedback.pchrd.dost.gov.ph
/dostpchrd @DOST_PCHRD THE PHILIPPINE DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Philippines as a biodiversity hotspot Natural products as a drug source The Philippines, being one of the megadiverse Of the total New Chemical Entities (NCEs) approved countries in the world in terms of species thriving, by the United States Food and Drug Administration makes it favorable for the discovery of novel (US FDA) from 1981 to 2002, 52% are natural compounds from indigenous/endemic terrestrial and products, natural products-derived, or natural marine species. products-mimics. Even some of the important drugs that are currently in the market are derived from natural sources. Comprehensive Drug Discovery Program The country needs a comprehensive drug discovery Specific R&D Priority Areas for funding and development program to respond to the growing • Development of standardized herbal drugs health needs of the Filipinos, and to harness the • Cultural management/propagation of organisms potential of Philippine biodiversity. that reached at least pre-clinical development • Discovery of new drugs from local natural With available technical expertise and collaborations sources for development up to the pre-clinical in place, limited resource may be maximized and stage drug discovery cost may be minimized without • Development and/or validation of standard compromising the quality of the products developed processes and protocols for various stages of from natural sources. drug discovery and development
Program Framework
. Why Tuklas Lunas?
One of the health R&D priorities under the agenda thrust of DOST for 2017-2022 is developing health products and technologies to address pressing health
. problems.
Drug discovery and development especially those
coming from natural sources was identified as one of the priority areas under the National Unified Health Research Agenda (NUHRA).
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