PH biodiversity can boost pharma industry – researcher

The biodiversity of the Philippines can provide the ingredients for many medical products and help to expand pharmaceutical research and manufacturing in the country, an award-winning researcher said.

“There are endemic plants, insects, marine organisms, minerals (in the country) that could be a source of pharmacological interventions in diseases,” Joven Apostol, a pharmacy professor at the University of Sto. Tomas said.