Current Traditional Medicine

Dr. Duan-fang Liao (MD,PhD), the former president of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, is now a Professor and the Director of Province Key Laboratory for Quality Evaluation of Bulk Herbs of Hunan, and Vice Director of the State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Powder and Innovative Medicine of China. And he published more than 160 papers in SCI journals. Moreover, Dr Liao has been honored the “Outstanding Scientist of China” issued by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).

Prof. Seong-Gyu Ko is the faculty and Vice Dean of College of Korean Medicine and Director of East-West Medical Research Institute at the Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KOREA. He is currently working as a chairperson of IRB of Kyung Hee University, and a head professor of Brain Korea 21 plus project center supported by the Ministry of Education of Korea. He is actively working with government organization of Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW), Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) , Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM) as a committee member or board member for regulation, development, evaluation and planning.

Dr. Hou-Wen Lin obtained Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China. Currently Dr. Lin is a distinguished professor and the Yangtze River Scholar Professor at State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, and also the Director of Department of Clinical Pharmacy of Renji hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Lin’s research is involved in discovery of marine natural products, structure optimization, chemical synthesis and biosynthesis of active natural products, and MOA of marine antitumor molecules. He is a named inventor of 30 issued patents and has published more than 100 scientific articles as corresponding author.

Dr. Raimer Lobenberg holds a BS in pharmacy from the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. He received his PhD in pharmaceutics from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt and is currently professor at the University of Alberta. His research interests are in Biopharmaceutics to predict the oral performance of drugs and botanicals and in inhalable nanoparticles to treat lung cancer and tropical diseases. He is founder and director of the Drug Development and Innovation Centre at the University of Alberta.

Prof. Xiaohe Xiao, is the director of China Military Institute of Chinese Materia Medica and director of Integrative Medical Centre in 302 Military Hospital. He has been involved in clinical pharmacy of traditional Chinese medicines. He is a committee member of Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission, and was selected as the First Ten Outstanding Youth of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Prof. Xiao has won 2 items of the National Award of Science and Technology of China as the first achiever. He has developed 2 new drugs for treating liver diseases. He has published more than 667 pieces of scientific publications. Prof. Xiao has also established Guideline for Diagnosis and Treatment of Herb-Induced Liver Injury as well as Guidelines for the Evaluation of the Quality of TCM. He is a named inventor of 32 issued domestic and foreign patents.

Prof. Alvaro Viljoen obtained his Ph.D. (1999) on the secondary metabolites of the genus Aloe from the University of Johannesburg. He identified medicinal aromatic plants as a potential research opportunity, especially in South Africa. His commitment to phytomedicine research was recently acknowledged through the 2013 TWAS-ROSSA Award from The World Academy of Sciences. He has contributed to 185 peer-reviewed papers, mostly on aspects of medicinal plant research. The highlight of his academic career has been his nomination for a National Research Chair in Phytomedicine, which was awarded by the NRF/DST in 2013, a position he holds concurrently as Director of the recently awarded MRC Herbal Drugs Research Unit in South Africa.

Prof. Hesham El-Seedi obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Organic Chemistry, Channel program with Kemisk Institute, Aarhus University, Denmark / Menoufia University, Egypt. Prof. El-Seedi is a former fellow of the Japanese Society of Promotion of Science as a visiting assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan. Prof. El-Seedi worked in internationally recognized laboratories including Kunglia Tekniska hogskola (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, Uppsala Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Sweden, University of Malaya, and Menoufia University, Egypt. Prof. El-Seedi has published more than 100 scientific publications including one paper in The Lancet.

Dr. Amar G. Chittiboyina holds appointment as Assistant Director at the National Center for Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi, with a broad background in organic chemistry, with specific training and expertise in medicinal chemistry. Dr. Chittiboyina has several international patents and has contributed to book chapters on medicinal chemistry and safety of phytochemicals. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed publications in various peer-reviewed journals involving many aspects of natural and biologically active compounds; biogenesis of secondary metabolites; synthesis and structure activity relationships (SAR); development of non-animal alternative methods in toxicology and application of computer-aided drug design techniques.

Dr. Muhammad N. Ghayur is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Pikeville in Pikeville, KY, USA. Dr. Ghayur has an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and Master and PhD degrees in Pharmacology. He also completed a pre-doctoral fellowship in Pharmacognosy from King’s College London, England, and a post-doctoral fellowship in Physiology and Pharmacology from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. Dr. Ghayur is a licensed community pharmacist in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. His research interests are in drug development from natural products, ethnopharmacology, receptor pharmacology, muscarinic receptors, and calcium channels.

Dr. Usman G. Khan earned MPharm from Osaka University, Japan and obtained PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Karachi. Currently he is Consultant at Herbion Pakistan (Pvt) Limited, Karachi and a Visiting Professor of Pharmacognosy and Practice at Jinnah University for Women, Karachi, Pakistan. He has published more than 300 research paper and 34 books. Dr. Usman Ghani is the Editor of Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences published by Rayazuddin Research and Development Society Jinnah University for Women, Karachi.

Dr. Min Ye obtained his Ph.D. degree in Pharmacognosy from Peking University in 2013. He joined the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Peking University as an Associate Professor in 2007, and was promoted to Professor in 2012. His research interest is focused on the discovery of bioactive compounds of Chinese herbal medicines, and biocatalysis of bioactive natural products. He has published over 339 articles, which have been cited by over 9558 times.

Dr. Stephen O. Amoo holds a PhD degree in Botany from University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and an MSc (Botany) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Plant Growth and Development, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. He is a recipient of Claude Leon Foundation, University of KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa National Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships. He has many papers published in ISI-rated journals and has presented many papers at both national and international conferences.

Professor Ercan Bursal obtained his M.S. degree from Yuzuncu Yil University, Turkey. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Ataturk University,Turkey. He is working at Mus Alparslan University, Turkey since 2010. His M.S. and Ph. D were on Chemistry/Biochemistry. He worked as a post doc researcher at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA. His main research topics are biological activity and chemical constituents of medicinal plants and enzyme biochemistry. So far, He is the author/co-author of 78 articles in different journals. He has around 2547 citations to his published articles.

Dr. Muhammad I. Choudhary is a Distinguished National Professor of Organic Chemistry and Director at International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research). He is among the most prominent scientists of Pakistan, recognized for his original contributions in the fields of natural products and bioorganic chemistry. He has written and edited 50 books, most of which have been published in USA and Europe. He is also the author of over 900 research papers and chapters in top international science journals of the West, as well as 43 US patents. The cumulative impact factor of his publications is over 1,750. This is by far the largest number of quality publications from any scientist in Pakistan. He has been among the most cited scientists of Pakistan in last five years with citations exceeding 11,000 (h-Index: 41).

Dr. Yam Mun Fei, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia, specializing in pharmacology and traditional medicine. He holds dual PhDs in Pharmacology and Immunopharmacology, along with a Bachelor and Doctor of Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine, complemented by formal training in acupuncture and clinical research. His work centers on vasodilation, antihypertensive therapies, and herbal drug development, with over 130 scientific publications and numerous research awards. Dr. Yam is an editorial board member of Current Hypertension Reviews and Senior Editor of the Journal of Pharmacopuncture. He also serves as a Professor under the Minjiang Scholar Program in Fujian, China.

Prof. Anwar H. Gilani is a distinguished Pharmacologist, holding the positions of Chairman, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, who made break through discoveries in the field of ethnopharmacology. He has to his credit co-editor of two WHO Books on Essential Medicine and 450 articles attracting over 13,000 citations with an h-index of 61 (based on google scholar). He supervised research of 20 PhDs and occupied 1st National ranking in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is a Member, Editorial Boards of 10 reputed journals including Journal of Ethnopharmacology and has been invited/plenary speaker at 80 international conferences.

Dr. Michael J. Gonzalez is Professor at the Nutrition Program, School of Public Health in the Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico and Adjunct faculty at the University of Western States. Dr. Gonzalez is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and has authored over 200 scientific publications. He has obtained several research awards for his work on Nutrition and Cancer. He is currently Co- Director of RECNAC II project, and Research Director of the InBioMed Project Initiative. Dr. González is one of the founders of InBioMed, leaders in the development of non-toxic chemotherapy treatments for cancer.

Dr. Yeun-Hwa Gu is working as Professor of the department of radiation oncology, Graduate School of Health Science, Junshin Gakuen University, Japan. Dr. Yeun-Hwa Gu has worked as Professor of Suzuka Medical Science University's Department of Health and Sanitation. He graduated from the University of Tokyo. He is working as an academic advisory committee of the Korea Society of Health Sciences and academic director of Korean Ultrasound Cancer Therapy (HIFU) Society and co-researcher of Russia Space Radiation Chemistry Protection Study Group. He published more than 250 papers in various peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Rajiv Gupta was born and brought up at Lucknow and is an alumnus of prestigious Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University (formerly Sagar University), Sagar, (M.P), India. He has a rich industrial experience of Six years and is serving academics for last seventeen years. He is presently serving as Professor and Dean, School of Pharmacy, BBD University, Lucknow, India, holding additional post of Head, Department of Pharmacognosy. His area of Interest is medicinal plants particularly Standardization and HPTLC studies alongwith Phytopharmacology and herbal formulation. He is Member of Central Administration, Academic Council, Examination Committee, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and Convener of RDC (Pharmaceutical Sciences) & Doctorate Program Admission Test (DPAT) panel of Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow. At post graduate level i.e. M. Pharm., he has supervised forty Dissertation work, and six as Co-Supervisor (also two M.D.S.). He is Co-Investigator of AICTE - MODROBS project “Standardization of selected Indian Medicinal Plants” (2009-12). His supervision of a M. Pharm. Thesis was awarded as ‘Best Research Supervisor’ in ‘R.V. Patel best M. Pharm. Thesis’ competition at National level (2011-12). He has co-authored five books and also contributed to a book chapter published by Springer. He is reviewer/editorial board member of several national & international research journals. He has 85 National / International Publications/ presentations to his credit and has attended many conferences, seminar & workshop etc. He is Life member of pharmaceutical based professional organizations like A.P.T.I. & I.S.P. etc.

Dr. Ling-Yi Kong obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Medicinal Chemistry from Shenyang College of Pharmacy, China. Dr. Kong is a Changjiang Distinguished Professor and an awardee of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. Currently Dr. Kong is also a professor and vice president in China Pharmaceutical University. He has published more than 500 scientific publications and is a named inventor of 20 issued patents. He is the executive editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines and the member of the editorial boards of Journal of Asian Natural Product Research, Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica, Chinese Pharmaceutical Journal and China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica.

Dr. Pradeep Kumar is presently serving as an Assistant Professor at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Natural Products, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda. He has published 50 research and review articles in Journals of international repute. He has a cumulative impact factor more than 100 and h-index 18. His research interests include design of drugs using Computer Aided Drug Design methodologies, their synthesis and antimicrobial and anticancer evaluation.

Dr. Richard Lobo is a Pharmacognosist, obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Pharmacognosy (Natural product) from Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India. Dr. Lobo also holds an M.Pharm degree in Pharmacognosy from Manipal University and B.Pharm degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Mangalore University, Karnataka, India. Currently, Dr. Lobo is working as an Associate Professor in Pharmacognosy, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal University. He is also an Associate Editor for BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine published by BioMed Central, an impact factor journal, Editorial board member for Current Traditional Medicine, published by Bentham science publishers and Editorial board member for Journal of Bioequivalence Studies, Annex publishers. He has published more than 75 scientific publications.

Dr. Misra holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacy (Pharmacognosy & Phytochemistry) and has over a decade of experience in pharmacognosy, quality control, and monographic studies of medicinal plants. Her expertise includes chemotaxonomy, bio-efficacy and in vitro validation of plant extracts, and herbal drug development. She has published 75 articles in peer-reviewed high-impact international journals and holds two patents.

Dr. Roja Rahimi obtained Pharm.D. from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and Ph.D. in Traditional Pharmacy from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Currently Dr. Rahimi is a faculty member in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She has published about 209 scientific papers. Dr. Rahimi is editor-in-chief of Traditional & Integrative Medicine, an international official journal of School of Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She is also editor of 4 international scientific journals.

Dr. Paolo R. di Sarsina graduated in Medicine in 1979 from the School of Medicine in the University of Bologna and specialized in Psychiatry in 1983 from the same University. He is the founder of the not-for-profit network Permanent Committee of Consensus and Coordination for Non-Conventional Medicine in Italy (established in Bologna on December 5, 2003). From 2006, he is an expert for Non-Conventional Medicine to High Council of Health, Ministry of Health, Italy, and founder and president of the Italian Charity "Association for Person Centred Medicine". Dr. Roberti di Sarsina has authored/co-authored more than 34 publications, having around 389 total citations. Furthermore, he has been one of the 16 participants of the EU funded (FP7) CAMbrella Consortium.

Dr. Shun-Wan Chan obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Pharmacology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Currently, Dr. Chan is an Associate Professor in the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong. He also serves as an Associate Director in State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has published more than 100 scientific publications. His research focuses on studying the pharmacological mechanisms of functional foods on preventing chronic diseases, Chinese medicine, microbiology and toxicology.

Dr. Shirley A. Telles obtained her Ph.D. degree (1992) in Neurophysiology from National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore University, India. Since 2007, she is Director of Research at Patanjali Research Foundation, Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar, India. Previously, from 2007 to 2012, she was Principal Investigator at the Indian Council of Medical Research Center for Advanced Research in Yoga and Neurophysiology, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation, Bangalore, India. She, as an author/co-author, has published more than 192 articles in various journals (having total number of citations of around 3,017), over 18 book chapters and 4 books. She has published mainly in the fields of Psychology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Dr. Le Ba Vinh is a leading expert in natural product chemistry at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway, and serves as a Research Professor at Korea University, South Korea. His research focuses on metabolomics studies of medicinal plants, fungal strains, and marine organisms, resulting in over 60 publications in SCIE-indexed journals. In addition to his research, Dr. Vinh is actively engaged in teaching and supervising master’s and PhD students. He also serves on the editorial boards of PLOS One and the European Journal of Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Wanying Wu is a professor and doctoral supervisor in Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Dr. Wu joined the United States Pharmacopeia as a visiting Scientist in 2013 and took part in the establishment of the Herbal Medicine Compendium. She is now part of the committee of the 11th Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission. Also Dr. Wu is a member of the USP Herbal Medicines Compendium - East Asia Expert Panel, Director and Secretary General of the Specialty Committee of TCM. She has established 32 TCM standards that have been accepted by U.S. Pharmacopeia or the European Pharmacopoeia.

Prof. Hua Zhou is currently appointed as Full Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, and as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Chinese Medicine, at Macau University of Science and Technology, China. His major research areas include immunopharmacology, cardiovascular pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and bioactivity-guided quality research of Chinese medicines. Prof. Zhou has published over 105 SCI articles, 45 Chinese articles, and 13 books, and he has been granted 25 international or Chinese patents. Furthermore, he has been awarded Second Prize of the National Science & Technology Progress Award of China, and First Prize of the Nature and Science Category of 2014 Ministry of Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards.

Dr. Zulfiqar Ali obtained his M.S. degree from Punjab University, Pakistan, and his Ph.D. degree from Karachi University, Pakistan. Since Nov 2004, Dr. Ali is Research Scientist in the National Center for Natural Products Research at The University of Mississippi, USA. His interest mainly involves Natural Product Chemistry (Isolation and structure elucidation of constituents from dietary supplements that may be useful as therapeutics or chemical markers). He, as an author/co-author, has published more than 230 articles in various journals, having total number of citations of around 1,960.

Dr. Sandeep K. Singh is a neurobiologist with a strong background in Biochemistry and Biomedicine. He has dedicated more than 7 years to Neuroscience Research and used animal models system to investigate the therapeutic potential for Alzheimer’s disease using synthetic as well as natural compounds in the Drosophila model system. Currently, he is the founder president of a non-profit organization in India named Indian Scientific Education and Technology Foundation (ISET Foundation) and working in the field of Neurobiology and Biotechnology Research Promotion. He has publications in the international journals like (International Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Neurotoxicity Research, Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, BBRC, Neurochemical Research, Neuroscience Letter, Current Drug Metabolism etc.) and 2 book chapter He is a member of the editorial board of several International neuroscience related journals.

Dr. Ramon E.R. Zepeda obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Plant Biotechnology in the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional at Irapuato, México. Currently Dr. Robles Zepeda is Titular Professor in the Departamento de Ciencias Químico Biológicas de la Universidad de Sonora, México. He has published about 40 scientific publications and 10 master's thesis and doctoral directed.