Academic exchange and collaboration to identify plant derived extracts that possess bioactive properties and have promising market potentials

IBSAR is engaged in a project that aims at increasing dietary diversity in the urban and rural poor through the promotion of the sustainable use of wild edible plants, ultimately improving general health status in the targeted communities.

Scientific research benefiting from biotechnology is central to the development of nations seeking improvement of people's livelihoods. ibsar is conducting basic research that is relevant, of high quality, and involving a multidisciplinary approach (physical, chemical, biological, social, cultural & economic).

The in vitro antimicrobial activity in water and in methanol extracts of Lebanese indigenous plants is concluded.

We have recently studied the ability of a hydrolyzable tannin, gallotannin (GT), and a condensed tannin, small_title alder (RA) bark extract, to inhibit 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH)-induced colonic aberrant crypt foci (ACF) and tumors in Balb-c mice.
 

In children, acute cough is a common symptom, which can adversely affect the quality of children's and their care givers' lives.

Initiate academic exchange to conduct collaborative research on bioprospecting and biodiversity mapping in Lebanon and Costa Rica.