TEHRAN – The headquarters for creating conventional drugs and medicinal herbs and the Pharmaceutical Technology Incubator Center affiliated with the Tehran University of Medical Sciences have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to strengthen the innovation, analysis, and commercialization chain, help knowledge-based firms, and develop technological infrastructure.
The MOU was signed by Mahmoud Biglar as chief supervisor of the Pharmaceutical Technology Incubator Center affiliated with the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and Hossein Rezaeizadeh, the pinnacle of the headquarters for creating conventional drugs and medicinal herbs.
The collaboration can function a platform for establishing and supporting knowledge-based firms within the pure merchandise sector, foster the event of revolutionary merchandise, and strengthen the hyperlink between the artificial and pure pharmaceutical sectors in response to the nation’s well being wants, IRNA quoted Biglar as saying.
For his half, Rezaeizadeh stated an innovation heart for conventional, natural, and pure merchandise shall be established in collaboration with the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and related colleges.
The heart will embrace a laboratory and a pilot plant infrastructure for producing prototypes of plant-based merchandise, together with syrup and capsule manufacturing traces.
Based on the MOU, Tehran University of Medical Sciences shall be accountable for offering the superstructure and the technical and operational infrastructure, whereas the headquarters for creating conventional drugs and medicinal herbs is accountable for supporting the tools and the inauguration of the middle.
The design and implementation of this innovation heart— together with a fab lab and a pilot plant—are scheduled for the subsequent six months; the middle is meant to perform as a hub for college students, researchers, and knowledge-based firms to facilitate training, expertise improvement, and product commercialization.
The collaboration shall be an efficient step towards creating the knowledge-based financial system and advancing the nation’s health-oriented applied sciences in conventional pharmacy by means of establishing a joint specialised working group, implementing technological tasks, and strengthening skill-based coaching.
Promoting natural drugs utilizing nanotechnology
The headquarters for creating nanotechnology and microtechnology and the headquarters for creating conventional drugs and medicinal herbs held a gathering on January 13 aimed toward utilizing nanotechnology for selling natural drugs.
Damoun Razmjouei, the secretary of the headquarters for creating conventional drugs and medicinal herbs, and Emad Ahmadvand, the secretary of the headquarters for creating nanotechnology and microtechnology, attended the assembly, IRNA reported.
The two sides mentioned methods to make use of the capability of nanotechnology in manufacturing standardized merchandise, rising the effectivity of merchandise, and creating knowledge-based merchandise, particularly natural drugs.
Over the previous Iranian 12 months (March 2024 –March 2025), a complete of 1,735 nanotechnology merchandise obtained nanoscale certificates from the Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council and had been commercialized by 201 firms.
The whole sale of these merchandise amounted to 973 trillion rials (some 700 million {dollars}) within the Iranian 12 months 1403, indicating a 57 p.c enhance in comparison with a 12 months earlier, and 72 p.c compared to 200 trillion rials (some 140 million {dollars}) prior to now 4 years. This development is about 31 p.c increased than the nation’s common annual inflation price.
The export of these nano-products constitutes 10 p.c of the gross sales, about 183 million {dollars}.
The gross sales worth of domestically-manufactured nano-tech merchandise over the previous 12 months is estimated to be round 1.8 million {dollars} primarily based on the typical day by day greenback trade price.
The three primary industrial sectors, together with transportation, civil engineering, and nanomaterials, had the very best share of the market, respectively.
More than 1 / 4 of the nation’s secondary market for nanotechnology merchandise is expounded to the automotive and transportation sectors.
Global standing in conventional drugs
According to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO), Iran ranks third in conventional drugs trials within the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), highlighting the nation’s standing as one of the world’s pioneers in conventional and complementary drugs.
China and India rank first and second, respectively, the well being ministry’s web site reported.
The share of scientific trials in conventional and complementary drugs in Iran makes up about three p.c of all scientific trials registered within the nation, whereas nearly 0.3 p.c of the healthcare workers are consultants in conventional and complementary drugs. The report exhibits the excessive capability of Iranian researchers to maneuver in direction of evidence-based drugs.
Iranian conventional drugs strongly focuses on prioritizing well being upkeep and illness prevention over remedy.
It is one of essentially the most historic varieties of conventional drugs. It is grounded within the idea of 4 senses of humor: phlegm (Balgham), blood (Dam), yellow bile (Safra’), and black bile (Sauda’). The idea of the 4 senses of humor relies on the teachings of Rhazes and Avicenna in an elaborate medical system.
So far, about 30,000 plant species have been recognized on the earth, with Iran’s share of about 8,000 species, which is greater than the entire quantity of species present in Europe.
Around 500 Persian drugs consultants are offering well being and medical remedy companies throughout the nation.
More than 1,000 normal practitioners who’ve handed the Persian drugs programs accepted by the well being ministry are additionally providing companies.
Currently, 9 colleges of Persian drugs enroll college students within the nation’s universities.
Training Persian drugs consultants has all the time been on the high of the Persian drugs workplace’s agenda. Therefore, completely different talent programs have been developed and held below the supervision of the well being ministry.
During the closing ceremony of the second World Health Organization (WHO) Global Summit on Traditional Medicine, Iran pledged commitments to advance the implementation of the Global Strategy for Traditional Medicine 2025-2034.
Co-organized by the WHO and the Government of India, the second international Summit on Traditional Medicine was held from December 17 to 19, 2025, in New Delhi, below the theme ‘Restoring Balance: The science and practice of health and well-being’.
The head of the well being ministry’s conventional drugs workplace, Hossein Rezaeizadeh, the advisor to the well being ministry’s conventional drugs workplace, Arman Zargaran, and the ambassador to India, Mohammad Fathali, attended the occasion.
Iran’s 5 commitments embrace launching a WHO collaborating heart, launching a nationwide platform for scientific trials, strengthening analysis and proof, publishing in respected journals, compiling 5 normal working procedures (SOPs) for specialised Persian procedures, and integrating conventional drugs into the well being system, the well being ministry’s web site reported.
During the ceremony, 26 different member states and 60 non-governmental facilities, accepted by the WHO, introduced their commitments.
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