Plenary speakers (confirmed)

• Giovanni Appendino
  Università del Piemonte Orientale, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Italy)
     Helichrysum italicum: Back to medicine from the tinsel of luxury
• Armando Cáceres 
  Universidad de San Carlos, Facultad de CCQQ y Farmacia, Laboratorio Farmaya Guatemala (Guatemala)
      From traditional uses of Mesoamerican medicinal plants to modern phytotherapy in Guatemala
• Anne Eckert
  University of Basel, Neurobiology Lab for Brain Aging and Mental Health, Transfaculty Research Platform, Molecular & Cognitive Neuroscience (Schwitzerland)
      Natural substances and neurodegenerative diseases: From molecular mechanisms to clinical effects
• István Katona
  Institute of Experimental Medicine of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Molecular and Developmental Neuroscience, Budapest (Hungary)
      The Cannabis plant and the endocannabinoids: How an ancient medicinal plant helps uncovering of a major signaling system in our body
• Thierry Langer
  University of Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Austria)
      3D Feature-based pharmacophore models: Efficient tools for profiling natural products
• John S. Markowitz
  University of Florida, Gainesville, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, Center for Drug Interaction Research and Education
      Limitations of in vitro assessments of the drug interaction potential of botanical supplements
• Nicolas Oberlies
  University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (USA)
      Approaches and progress toward bioactive leads from fungi
• Gisbert Schneider
  ETH Zürich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Switzerland)
      Natural product inspired drug discovery: How to teach your computer?
• Ben-Erik Van Wyk
  University of Johannesburg, Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology (South Africa)
     African perspectives on natural product research, based on ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological knowledge.