A public talk on ‘Conducting clinical trials on medicinal plants & Reverse Pharmacology’ was conducted by Dr. Merlin Wilcox from Oxford University. This talk targeted students from CoNAS, pharmacy, pharmacology & medicine, veterinary medicine and other stakeholders interested in herbal medicine. Dr. Merlin Wilcox is a clinical researcher at the Department of Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford, UK, and a GP at a health centre for homeless people in Oxford.