Xiao Peigen
Pharmaceutical
Chipscreen Biosciences
China
Biography
Professor Xiao Peigen is the founder and research leader of Chinese medicinal plant and Chinese Materia Medica (CMM), and a world-renowned ethnopharmacologist. He worked at the Institute of Materia Medica of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) from 1953 to 1983 as research assistant, research lecturer and associate research professor. Since 1983 he has served as professor and director of Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD) of CAMS. He got his honorary Ph. D from the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2002, and was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994. He has been engaged in the research on plant phylogeny, phytochemistry, pharmacology and plant therapeutics with immunomodulatiing and antiaging activities, as well as biotechnology of medicinal plants. He has published 22 books, such as Modern Chinese Materia Medica I-V (2002-2006), and more than 530 original research articles and review papers. For his outstanding work, he has won a number of prizes by the Chinese Government and the Ministry of Health.
Research Interest
Business, Management, Toxicology, Pharmacology
