The Medicinal Plant Information Center (MPIC), Mahidol University started its operation in 1979 with Dr.Nuntavan Bunyapraphatsara as its head. The idea of setting up such a center was initiated by Professor Pradit Hutangkura,the first and former Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy. Mahidol University, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Nat Pamornpravat and Prof. Dr. Prawase Vasi, the Rector and Deputy Rector of the University respectively, gave full financial support to the center. It was later accorded a status equivalent to an academic department within the Faculty of Pharmacy Mahidol University.
Beginning in 1995, Mahidol University and the National Scientific and Technological Development Agency (NSTDA) made an agreement to set up the Service Center for Medicinal Plant Information (SCMPI), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University. The main tasks of the Center are to assimilate information on medicinalplants from various sources and to render services to government and private agencies, researchers, students and the general public in medicinal plant data search and analysis. Moreover, the Center also disseminate information on medicinal plants in other formats such as short-termed training, production of various teaching media, including books on medicinal plants and Thai traditional medicine, newsletters, journals, video and slides, CD-ROMs, etc.
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