Increasingly consumers want to buy natural alternatives to synthetic
healthcare products. AmpikaPhytobase™, Ampika's database of over 500
medicinal plants from the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, uniquely positions
the company to create novel, natural healthcare products that meet this
market. Ampika is seeking business partners .........
Ampika
believes that it is vital that indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazonian
Rainforest who have shared their knowledge should benefit and their rights
be safeguarded. A share
of any profits from its commercial activity will be returned to Peru
to help revitalise and preserve traditional knowledge about the medicinal
use of plants .........
Ampika is a medicinal plants business that was spun out from Cambridge University in May 2003. The company operates in two areas of healthcare: development of nutraceuticals (dietary supplements and functional foods) for retail to consumers, and discovery of plant-derived drugs for prescription use. Ampika is seeking partners for marketing and distribution of its consumer products, and is looking to form collaborations with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to discover and develop plant-derived drugs.
Ampika's business is underpinned by a unique database, AmpikaPhytobase™, of some 500 plants used in traditional Amazonian medicine. The database is the work of Dr Françoise Barbira Freedman of the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. It is the tangible result of 25 years' of her work with Peruvian traditional healers, and of her unique relationship of trust with the local people - who actively support Ampika's utilisation of their exceptional knowledge of medicinal plants.
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