Yibin Feng
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Title: Drug discovery from chinese medicines: Update and prospect
Biography
Biography: Yibin Feng
Abstract
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been used in China over two thousand years. Chinese medicines are medication materials including Chinese medicinal plants, animal parts and menerals. Chinese medicines have been intensive stuided for their scientific basis and evidence-based medicine. In the past years, several drugs and drug candidates were discovered from Chinese Medicines. Chinese medicines prefre use mutiple materials mix together to single materials to treat diseases. As a drug discovery resource and complementary and alternative medicine, Chinese Medicines no matter single pure compound or mutitple components are drug candidates. This topic will review drug discovery from Chinese medicines in the past, present and draw conclusion in terms of chmistry, pharmacology and clinical medicine. To discover more drug candidates, research model and platform for Chinese medicines are required somthing new in the fuuture. This work was financially supported in part by grants from RGC General Research Fund, Hong Kong SAR (Project Code: 10500362), Gala family trust for natural products (Project code: 200007008) and Goverment-Matching Funding (Project code: 207060411).