The Herbarium of Economic Botany of Ecuador (QUSF) of Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), established in 1995, contains around 28,000 preserved vascular plants of the Ecuadorian flora.  These specimens contain a wealth of information on uses and economic value that, along with field notes acts as a major regional as well as national reference center. Research is primarily focused on the taxonomy, distribution, use and conservation of Ecuadorian plants. Recently associated with the new USFQ Bioprospecting Institute, our herbarium is involved in the search, extraction, isolation, purification and identification of molecules from natural sources. We also have a library of extracts obtained mainly from plants. Additionally, we have started an economic botany collection to show how local communities from Amazon to the Coast, obtain artifacts derived from plants such as food and medicine. In this presentation, new goals and objectives for the QUSF are presented.