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Biopiracy of natural products and good bioprospecting practice

Leonida K. OmosaF. V. DonenkoHiroshi NakagawaEan-jeong SeoGladys AlexieSara AbdelfatahIk-soo LeeEdna OokoNadire ÖZenverMonika EfferthLiang LiuSalam J.j. TitinchiJacob O. MidiwoChun Lan HongDipita Bhakta-guhaChing Fen WuJoachim ArendAhmed HusseinMathias SchneiderVictor KueteThomas EfferthJanine NaßVanderlan Da Silva BolzaniDawn BessarabElse DapatGihan ElhassanLetian ShanGe YanNorbert W. PaulMohamed E.m. SaeedRebecca HammElfatih M. SaeedMaen ZeinoM. S. Abu-darwishAntoine M. SaabRodrigo MoraQiaoli ZhaoHassan E. KhalidOlipa D NgassapaAbdelaaty A. ShahatDominic OchwangiHenry Johannes GretenC. NoysangAsuman KaradenizOnat KadiogluKai AnderschMita BanerjeeLeslie GunatilakaSami HamdounFred Hwiemtun Roland

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0301 basic medicineResource (biology)Drug IndustryInternational CooperationTheftPharmaceutical ScienceIntellectual property0603 philosophy ethics and religionIndigenousPatents as Topic03 medical and health sciencesIndigenous knowledgeDrug DiscoveryPatents as TopicTraditional knowledgeDeveloping CountriesPharmacologyBioprospectingBiological ProductsBioprospectingPlants Medicinalbusiness.industryIntellectual propertyCommercializationOwnership06 humanities and the artsPublic relationsBioethicsNatural resource030104 developmental biologyIncentiveComplementary and alternative medicineEthnopharmacologyMolecular MedicinePatent060301 applied ethicsBusiness

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Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T16:27:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-02-15 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Background: Biopiracy mainly focuses on the use of biological resources and/or knowledge of indigenous tribes or communities without allowing them to share the revenues generated out of economic exploitation or other non-monetary incentives associated with the resource/knowledge. Methods: Based on collaborations of scientists from five continents, we have created a communication platform to discuss not only scientific topics, but also more general issues with social relevance. This platform was termed 'PhytCancer -Phytotherapy to Fight Cancer' (www.phyt-cancer.uni-mainz.de). As a starting point, we have chosen the topic biopiracy, since we feel this is of pragmatic significance for scientists working with medicinal plants. Results: It was argued that the patenting of herbs or natural products by pharmaceutical corporations disregarded the ownership of the knowledge possessed by the indigenous communities on how these substances worked. Despite numerous court decisions in U.S.A. and Europe, several international treaties, (e.g. from United Nations, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization, the African Unity and others), sharing of a rational set of benefits amongst producers (mainly pharmaceutical companies) and indigenous communities is yet a distant reality. In this paper, we present an overview of the legal frameworks, discuss some exemplary cases of biopiracy and bioprospecting as excellent forms of utilization of natural resources. Conclusions: We suggest certain perspectives, by which we as scientists, may contribute towards prevention of biopiracy and also to foster the fair utilization of natural resources. We discuss ways, in which the interests of indigenous people especially from developing countries can be secured. (C) 2015 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Dept Pharmaceut Biol, Inst Pharm & Biochem, Staudinger Weg 5, D-55128 Mainz, Germany Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Dept English & Linguist, D-55128 Mainz, Germany Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Med Ctr, Inst Hist Theory & Eth Med, D-55128 Mainz, Germany Univ Khartoum, Fac Sci, Dept Bot, Khartoum, Sudan Univ Nairobi, Dept Vet Anat & Physiol, Nairobi, Kenya Al Balqa Appl Univ, Shoubak Univ Coll, Salt, Jordan Wilderness Int, Dresden, Germany Wilderness Int, Stony Plain, AB, Canada Ft McPherson, Fort McPherson, NT, Canada Curtin Univ, Fac Hlth Sci, Ctr Hlth Innovat Res Inst, Perth, WA 6845, Australia SASTRA Univ, Sch Chem & Biotechnol, Thanjavur 613401, TN, India Sao Paulo State Univ, Inst Chem, Dept Organ Chem, Araraquara, Brazil Univ Philippines, Dept Biol, Manila, Philippines Univ Philippines, Inst Biol, Quezon City 1101, Philippines NN Blokhin Russian Canc Res Ctr, Moscow, Russia Univ Porto, Biomed Sci Inst Abel Salazar, Rua Campo Alegre 823, P-4100 Oporto, Portugal Heidelberg Sch Chinese Med, Heidelberg, Germany Southwest Ctr Nat Prod Res & Commercializat, Sch Nat Resources & Environm, Tucson, AZ USA Univ Western Cape, Dept Chem, Bellville, South Africa Mehmet Akif Ersoy Univ, Dept Biol, Burdur, Turkey Univ Khartoum, Dept Pharmacognosy, Khartoum, Sudan Univ Dschang, Dept Biochem, Fac Sci, Dschang, Cameroon Chonnam Natl Univ, Coll Pharm, Gwangju, South Korea Macao Univ Sci & Technol, Macau, Peoples R China Univ Nairobi, Dept Chem, Nairobi, Kenya Rodrigo Facio Univ, Fac Microbiol, San Jose, Costa Rica Chubu Univ, Coll Biosci & Biotechnol, Dept Appl Biol Chem, Kasugai, Aichi 487, Japan Tokyo Inst Technol, Grad Sch Biosci & Biotechnol, Dept Biomol Engn, Yokohama, Kanagawa 227, Japan Muhimbili Univ Hlth & Allied Sci, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Mahidol Univ, Fac Pharm, Dept Pharmacognosy, Bangkok 10700, Thailand Rajamangala Univ Technol Thayaburi, Tradit Med Coll, Pathum Thani, Thailand King Saud Univ, Coll Pharm, Dept Pharmacognosy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Natl Res Ctr, Phytochem Dept, Cairo, Egypt Lebanese Univ, Dept Chem, Fac Sci 2, Beirut, Lebanon Fed Govt Sudan, Khartoum, Sudan Zhejiang Chinese Med Univ, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Peoples R China Sao Paulo State Univ, Inst Chem, Dept Organ Chem, Araraquara, Brazil Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: CRK2015/1

10.1016/j.phymed.2015.12.006http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0944711315003797