KNPB
About the Natural Products Bank
The Natural products Bank is being operated to secure a large amount of purely separated and refined active substances from Korean Medicine Materials and supply the potential buyer in need of such natural products.
We focus on securing high purity, refined natural products, managing the quality of natural products-based products, and helping the development efforts for new products, as we aim to secure and supply more than 100 types of new products every year.
NATURAL PRODUCTS SUBSTANCE BANK
The fields to which the secured natural products a
Providing a natural products library for activity searching
- Establishing and providing a natural products library for activity searching (screening)
- Supplying natural products and a natural products library for identifying use indications or finding promising materials for developing new products
Supplying natural products for evaluating activities and efficacy
- Supplying the natural samples for securing active substances with the efficacy of the main substances for the materials used in developing new products
- Supporting the research activities for identifying the active substances of newly developed products by supplying natural products
Supplying samples of natural products for setting quality test methods
- Securing the standard data and quality data for using a sample as the standard for quantitative analyses
- Providing standards for index substances for analyzing the contents of Korean Medicine Materials, extracts, and products
Supplying the raw materials for developing natural-products-based products
- Providing the materials for developing new products (for studying physical properties, product researching, and stability testing)
- Providing support with the supply of raw materials for the products being developed and optimizing the raw materials for the products already on the market
Effects
- Supporting the standardization of quality of the products based on Korean Medicine Materials
- Promoting the development of new medicines all over the world utilizing natural products
- Supporting the development of synthetic new medicines in the Daegu Gyeongbuk Advanced Medical Compound
- Promoting the development of products utilizing Korean Medicine Materials and shortening the time taken in developing new products
- Accelerating the expansion of the markets for the products based on extracts to foreign markets