BRC at Glance
INTRODUCTION
Indonesia is a country belong to the "megadiversity countries" along with Mexico, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Zaire, Madagascar, China, India, Malaysia, and Australia which are believed to contain 70% of the world's species diversity. Indonesia also is a multi ethnic society, with more than 1.000 ethnic/sub-ethnic groups. This unique combination makes Indonesia become a country which is rich in ethnobotany information as well. The utilization of both assets will make a significant contribution for increasing the welfare of Indonesian society. Therefore, within this context, Biopharmaca Research Center was established. Biopharmaca, itself, is defined as plants, animals, and microbes that have potential properties as drugs, health food, functional food, and nutraceutica) for human, animals, and plants.
Biopharmaca Research Center (BRC) is an organization belongs to the Research and Community Empowerment Institute of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB). BRC has devoted its existence as a networking institution and for coordinating research – related biopharmaca. The Center is working on biopharmaca development, natural resources conservation, proposing bioprospective policy and regulation. Furthermore, its multidisciplinary expertise have the capability in exploration, conservation, cultivation, extraction, chemical structure analysis, standardization and efficacy studies of natural resources
