24 May 2024
The Symposium on Advanced Technologies for R&D on Chinese Medicines (中藥研發前沿技術研討會 ) was jointly organized by the School of Chinese Medicine and Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin R&D Centre for Chinese Medicine, CUHK. The Symposium was held at the LT2, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA) on 24 May 2024 (Friday). There were 118 participants joined the seminar.
The main theme of the seminar was Advanced Technologies for R&D on Chinese Medicines, featuring the latest scientific research of the identification and quality control of Chinese medicine as well as drug discovery. Mr Tommy Y S Li, SBS, MH, JP (Hong Kong delegate to the National People’s Congress and the President of the Federation of the Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Chinese Medicines Traders Association) and Dr. Fong Ho Ching Edmund (Assistant Director of Health (Chinese Medicine), Department of Health) were the Guest of Honour to deliver welcoming speeches at the opening ceremony.
Five distinguished speakers were invited to give talks in the seminar, including
Guest speakers | Titles | Talk topics |
Prof. Shilin Chen 陳士林院士 | Director and Chief Researcher of the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (ICMM, CACMS) | Technological Innovation and Herbal Genomics 科技創新與本草基因組學 |
Prof. Dean Guo 果德安教授 | Chair Professor of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Three-pronged Strategy of TCM quality control-Deep Research, Holistic Standard and Precision Testing 中藥質控三管齊下策略 – 深入研究,淺出標準,精準檢測 |
Prof. Pang Chui Shaw 邵鵬柱教授 | Director, Li Dak Sum R&D Centre for Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Application of High-throughput sequencing for quality control of Chinese medicinal materials 高通量測序在中藥材品質控制的應用 |
Prof. Yitao Wang 王一濤教授 | Chair Professor, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicines (SKL-QRCM), University of Macau | Exploration of R&D and Transformation of Chinese Medicine 中藥創新研發與產業轉化的探索 |
Prof. Hongxi Xu 徐宏喜教授 | School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of TCM | Novel Drug Discovery of Cancer Recurrence Protection by Targeting Quiescent Cancer Cells 靶向静止期癌细胞预防肿瘤复发的创新药物研发 |
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