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He is a co-author, together with the NCI scientists, of the calanolides patent, and was elected University of Illinois Senior University Scholar, 1996-1999. He developed an expertise in pharmacognosy and IP issues as a result of a long period of association with chemist and biologist colleagues, as well as with the Office of Intellectual Property/Technology Management at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has served as Editor of Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1988-2004), and is currently a member of the editorial board of five scientific journals. He has been a recipient of an NIH/FIC ICBG grant as Principal Investigator for two cycles (1998-2003; 2003-2008), and is author and co-author of more than 200 scientific papers and book chapters, and three books.
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A plant taxonomist and economic botanist by training, Professor Soejarto is best known for his more than 40 years of plant exploration work, which covers more than 20 countries. He has established three Herbarium Research Institutions (in Colombia, the Philippines, and Vietnam). He was honored as Founder of the Herbarium of the University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia), during a 2004 national conference on medicinal plants that celebrated the founding of the herbarium and the deposit of its 100,000th specimen. During his exploration program in Southeast Asia under the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s funding (1986-2004), the anti-HIV calanolides were discovered from a species of Calophyllum trees of Malaysia.
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